{"id":523993,"date":"2026-03-09T08:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=523993"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:09:11","slug":"sipri-belarus-accounts-for-0-9-of-global-arms-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/sipri-belarus-accounts-for-0-9-of-global-arms-imports","title":{"rendered":"SIPRI: Belarus Accounts For 0.9% Of Global Arms Imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has published its annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sipri.org\/media\/press-release\/2026\/global-arms-flows-jump-nearly-10-cent-european-demand-soars\">report<\/a> on international arms transfers, assessing trends for the period 2021\u20132025.<\/p>\n<p>According to SIPRI data, Belarus accounted for 0.9% of global arms imports in 2021\u20132025. Compared with the previous assessed period of 2016\u20132020, the country\u2019s share increased by 73%. Almost all weapons imported by Belarus came from Russia, while Iran accounted for 0.1% of imports and China for less than 0.05%. In recent years Belarus has received Russian Su-30SM2 fighter jets, Mi-35M helicopters, BTR-82A armored personnel carriers, surface-to-air missile systems and other equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus was also the third-largest client of Russia, accounting for 6.8% of global Russian arms exports in 2021\u20132025. According to SIPRI, 48% of Russian exports went to India, 13% to China and 13% to Belarus. Russia\u2019s share in global arms exports declined by 64%. In 2016\u20132020 Russia accounted for 21% of global arms exports.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus did not rank among the world\u2019s 25 largest arms exporters.<\/p>\n<p>The volume of arms transferred between countries in 2021\u20132025 increased by 9.7% compared with the previous period of 2016\u20132020.<\/p>\n<p>SIPRI identifies the growth of arms supplies to Ukraine as the main trend. Ukraine accounted for 9.7% of global arms imports, making it the largest arms recipient. In Ukraine\u2019s arms import structure the United States ranked first with 41%, followed by Germany with 14% and Poland with 9.4%. The report also notes growing demand in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The United States remains the world\u2019s largest arms exporter, providing 42% of all deliveries. In 2021\u20132025 the United States supplied weapons to 99 countries. The largest recipients of American arms were Saudi Arabia (12%), Ukraine (9.4%) and Japan (8.9%).<\/p>\n<p>France ranked second among exporters with a 9.8% share. The main recipients of French weapons were India (24%), Egypt (11%) and Greece (10%). Russia ranked third.<\/p>\n<p>The three largest arms importers are Ukraine, India (8.2%) and Saudi Arabia (6.8%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has published its annual report on international arms transfers, assessing trends for the period 2021\u20132025. According to SIPRI data, Belarus accounted for 0.9% of global arms imports in 2021\u20132025. Compared with the previous assessed period of 2016\u20132020, the country\u2019s share increased by 73%. Almost all weapons imported by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":523992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69ae8e3c7eebf.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"SIPRI: Belarus Accounts For 0.9% Of Global Arms Imports"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143118,143122],"class_list":["post-523993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-rossija"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}