The authors considered 60 categories, including the number of military units, financial status, logistical capabilities and geographies, to determine the rank positions. The Armed Forces of Ukraine took 18th place.
AFU is one of the strongest armies in the world
The Army of Ukraine took 18th place in the ranking of the most powerful armies in the world. Compared to last year, it dropped by three positions.
This is evidenced by the rating of the international company Global Firepower, which annually compiles a list of the best armies in the world.
To determine the positions in the rating, the authors considered 60 separate categories, including the number of military units, financial status, logistical capabilities and geographies.
In total, there are 145 countries on the list. Ukraine's "neighbours" in the rating are the army of Israel (17th place) and Germany (19th place). Ukraine has a power index of 0.2598 (the lower the better. 0.0000 is considered an ideal indicator).
Ukrainian military power is strengthened by the financial and material support of Western allies, in particular the United States. In February 2024, two bloody years will pass since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the authors wrote in the review of Ukraine.
Last year, against the background of a full-scale invasion of Russia, Ukraine rose to 15th place in the ranking of the world's most powerful armies. In 2021, she took 22nd place.
What Zaluzhnyi was planned in 2022
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, planned a bold counteroffensive in 2022 in the south of Ukraine, which never happened. The US urged Ukraine to focus on another offensive target.
Business Insider tells about this regarding the new book of The Wall Street Journal correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov, Our Enemies Will Vanish.
This counteroffensive could reportedly change the war for better or worse. The plan was to cut the so-called "land bridge" from the Russian Federation to Crimea in the Zaporizhzhia region to isolate Russian forces on the peninsula.
At that time, Russia had not yet built extensive minefields and fortifications that would prevent a 2023 counteroffensive.
The publication writes that such an approach would still be a difficult challenge because the breakthrough must be deep and wide enough to prevent a Russian counterattack.
But if the Ukrainian plan worked, it could allow the Ukrainians to use their momentum after the battle for Kyiv and Russian losses elsewhere and, as Trofimov writes, "deprive Moscow of its greatest prize in the war."
