The United States Transportation Command has published an infographic that reveals the amount of the de-facto delivered weapons and equipment to Ukraine, provided by the White House. These infographics include supplies from January 11, 2022, until January 3, 2023.
The most notable detail to highlight is that the volume of supplies is so massive that it takes ships and railway echelons to deliver them. Apparently, this was the way U.S. military personnel delivered over a million 155mm artillery shells and other ammunition to Ukraine.
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As for transit points, those may include Greek Alexandroupoli port and/or Romanian Constanta where an echelon with M1117 armored vehicles for Ukraine was spotted recently.
The scale of the "air bridge" between the USA and the Boryspil airport near Kyiv (before the invasion), and Polish Rzeszów airport (after the start of the invasion) are no less impressive: three planes loaded with military supplies arrived each day on average.
Perhaps, trucks were used as "last mile transport", and with a number of 5,500 rides, we can only imagine how big was that logistical "anthill".
Usually, in this context, the emphasis is put on the amount of heavy equipment delivered to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, this time we should pay attention to those particular types of equipment which were essential at the first stage of mobilization deployment of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
More than 14,400 small arms, 201.7 million rounds to them, more than 48,000 helmets, and 70,000 bulletproof vests. Also, as we can see, the list includes over 1,400 air defense systems, ranging from man-portable launchers to NASAMS and 2,086 surface-to-air missiles.
It goes without saying that such scale of logistical effort by the United States has so far been working behind the scenes and we could not see all these ships and trains with weapons, for a number of reasons. One of them being that the International Donor Coordination Centre (IDCC) is diligently performing one of its main duties which is keeping all the supply routes to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in secrecy.
Of course, the U.S. Transportation Command was reporting only on its own work, not on all the military aid supplies to Ukraine in general. And we can see only some elements of that amount of work that is done by Ukraine's allies to satisfy all the needs of the Ukrainian armed forces.
For example, how Poland's logistical help was needed to transfer Slovenian M-55S or how Great Britain was carrying cargo to Ukraine so actively that at some point it asked for transport aircraft from New Zealand.
All aforementioned demonstrates: Western help should be valued not only by the number of weapons and equipment delivered but by the amount of work put into delivering all these goods.
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