Ukraine: Four Clocks of a Long War
A Semiotic evidence atlas · 2022–2026
The war has more than one clock.
Military aid, documented equipment losses, economic change and diplomatic votes tell different parts of the war’s history. Compare them here at the pace each source records: monthly reports for aid and losses, annual figures for economies and selected votes for diplomacy.
- reported equipment losses
- through 2025-12-31
- aid allocations
- through April 2026
- economic series
- through 2025
01 · geography and support
Aid crosses borders on a political timetable
The arcs show dated aid allocations to Ukraine. Wider arcs and stronger colors indicate larger values. Change the aid category and year to compare contributions from North America, EU institutions and European states.
24 February – April 2022
The opening shockThe northern drive failed to take Kyiv; the war contracted east and south after Russia withdrew from northern Ukraine.02 · documented equipment losses
Losses plotted by the date they were reported
Each bar is one month, stacked by equipment class. A loss is placed in the month it was reported to the public Oryx archive, which can lag the actual event. Pick a country, or compare both with Russia above the axis and Ukraine below it.
Every bar shares a zero baseline, so monthly counts are directly comparable, and the stack shows the equipment mix. Hover for a month's exact count; in the single views, click a legend item to isolate a class. Dates are when losses were reported, not necessarily when they happened.
03 · economic and political aftershocks
Economic shocks and changing votes
GDP growth records the asymmetric 2022 shock and partial recovery. UN votes show a different kind of movement: a much narrower coalition in 2025 and a reversal by the United States.
World Bank · annual
Real GDP growth
year-over-year percentRead these as annual growth rates for the whole economy. Positive growth after a large contraction does not mean the earlier level has been restored.
UN General Assembly · 193 members
The diplomatic coalition changes shape
share of all member statesThe wording changed between resolutions. This view compares coalition size and vote position; it does not treat the three texts as identical measures.
04 · source ledger
Sources and definitions
Oryx / public archive
Visually confirmed records are a conservative, lagging record. Monthly values are archive additions grouped into broad classes, not loss-event dates or a census of all equipment lost.
Original Russian list · Original Ukrainian list · daily public archive
Kiel Ukraine Support Tracker
Release 29 dated allocations through April 2026, expressed in current euros. “Civilian” recodes Kiel humanitarian aid; “unspecified” recodes financial aid whose ultimate use is not identified as military or humanitarian. Capital coordinates are presentation metadata; only the largest donors are mapped here.
Tracker and methodologyWorld Bank WDI
Indicator NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG: annual percentage growth of GDP at constant prices, downloaded for Ukraine and Russia for 2021–2025.
Indicator seriesUN General Assembly
Official records for ES-11/1, ES-11/6, and ES-11/7. Not-voting counts are the remainder from 193 members after yes, no, and abstentions.