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Exclusives Before Russia’s all-out war, Ukraine imported almost no weapons. Four years later, it buys more than any country on Earth. Even as Washington reduced military aid to Ukraine in 2025, European states, Australia, and Canada stepped up deliveries, with 25 countries buying US-made weapons under the PURL mechanism specificallyContinue Reading

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Ukraine became the world’s largest recipient of major arms in 2021–25, absorbing nearly 10% of all global arms transfers as Russia’s invasion drove the dramatic shift in the global weapons trade in decades, according to a new fact sheet from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Russia’s own arms exports collapsed,Continue Reading