In 2026, Ukraine ranked 20th in the global military power rating. The assessment of the military potential of 145 countries worldwide was conducted by the analytical resource Global Firepower, which compiles this ranking annually, UNIAN wrote on January 26.
A country’s position in the global military power ranking is assessed based on more than 60 indicators, including not only nominal figures for the number of soldiers and military equipment, but also the country’s economic and demographic potential.
Thus, the compilers of the ranking consider Ukraine’s strengths to be the size of its active army (the number of soldiers and reservists, as well as military equipment), its naval potential (likely due to maritime drones), coal production volumes, the length of the railway network, and defense spending levels. At the same time, Ukraine’s weakest points are named as the absence of submarines and large warships (such as aircraft carriers, frigates, corvettes, destroyers), its own tankers, as well as high volumes of coal, oil, and gas consumption.
In the overall ranking, Ukraine ended up close to Spain (18th place), Egypt (19th place), Poland (21st place), and Taiwan (22nd place).
The top ten strongest countries in the world according to Global Firepower are as follows: the U.S., russia, China, India, South Korea, France, Japan, the UK, Turkey, and Italy.