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Ukraine completed about 200MW of onshore wind last year. The first since the war started. It went into the war with about 1.7Gw of wind.

The U.K. has almost 30Gw of installed capacity with onshore accounting for about 14Gw.

The UK has also been much more focused on the substantially more effective offshore wind..so much so it has the leaves offshore wind capacity in the world. On top of that there is another 8Gw already in construction.

Back to onshore there is already 8Gw of planning consented applications. 6Gw in planning and waiting approval and 7Gw in pre planning.

On a more specific note The South Kyle onshore farm went operational in 2023 providing 230Mw

So the concept of Ukraine having 12x anything with regards to wind power v the U.K. doesn’t ring entirely true unless someone has picked a rather specific period of time and set of stats to fit their point while completely missing the bigger picture.
Sorry it's the 2 years since the war started and it's England not uk, its devolved and we have done much better than England. Yes offshore is more productive but onshore is better than literally burning fossil fuels like we're doing just now. Everything is far to slow in the uk. The same is said about solar, offshore and nuclear is cheaper yes but we need every weapon.

Also yes it's a specific period the last two years but they are dodging mines, drones, have 1 million men fighting and have regular power outages.

https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4332875/labour-government-lifts-facto-ban-onshore-wind-farms
Campaigners highlighted how as a result of the rules Ukraine has been able to install 12 times more onshore wind energy capacity than England since Russia's invasion, despite being at war.