The military conflict between Russia and Ukraine has been going on for many days, Russia has been marching all the way into Ukraine, and its capital Kiev is facing a situation of soldiers under the city, and its final outcome is almost unpredictable, basically one-sided. In fact, Ukraine's military strength is not as bad as people think, but it is facing a powerful opponent Russia. Because the military strength of the two sides is not in the same grade at all, it naturally feels very weak to see Ukraine, and what is its real strength?
Fast forward to December 25, 1991, when the Soviet Union officially collapsed. Ukraine and Russia as a former Soviet republic, inherited most of the military power of the former Soviet Union, in the eyes of the world Russia as the sole successor of the Soviet Union, control most of the nuclear forces of the former Soviet Union, but in fact Ukraine has also inherited a large number of former Soviet Union military forces, of which the Inheritance of the Soviet Union as many as 2,000 fighters, including bombers, tankers, transport aircraft and other types of military aircraft, in the Navy also inherited a large number of cruisers, destroyers, frigates, submarines, Patrol boats and other types of ships; as well as a variety of armored vehicles on land, a total of more than 6,500, such a powerful armored force in Europe is one of the best.
It also has a lot of Tu-160 strategic bombers, as well as other advanced fighters, after the collapse of the Soviet Union once became the world's fourth largest nuclear possessor, Ukraine's military size, especially the number of nuclear warheads, including intercontinental launch vehicles, strategic bombers, strategic missile nuclear submarines and other nuclear weapons, are the world's third strongest nuclear powers after the United States and Russia, nuclear weapons are not only numerous, but also qualitatively can be despised by other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council except the United States and Russia.
On the whole, Ukraine still has a lot of military enterprises and weapons and equipment research and development institutions, due to the disintegration, the use of Western "shock" economic therapy, the economic development situation has not only not improved, but continues to deteriorate. As a result, its economy fell into a long recession. Naturally, Ukraine was unable to maintain such a huge armament, and finally because of the temptation of the United States, it continued to sell weapons and equipment, destroy a large number of warships and bombers, so that the current embarrassing situation appeared.
After entering the new century, Ukraine has made no progress in economic construction, basically relying on eating the set of heavy industry left by the former Soviet Union, and its main weapons and equipment are the "old antiques" left over from the Soviet period, and it is difficult to adapt to the modernization war. Ukraine's "self-deprecating martial arts" listened to the "white lies" of the Western world and abolished nuclear weapons, as well as a large number of strategic nuclear forces. Thinking about what happened to Ukraine today, it is really "regretful".