Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that the country’s 2023 defense budget will be $48.7 billion. DEA News.
He said that “every hryvnia” in the budget goes to the needs of the Ukrainian security and defense forces. According to him, the amount of funds allocated for the armed forces this year will amount to 1.8 trillion hryvnia ($48.7 billion).
Earlier, the head of the tax committee of the Verkhovna Rada Daniil Getmantsev said that the total expenditure on the defense of Ukraine last year was 1.536.6 billion hryvnia ($ 41.8 billion), that is, 57% of the state budget expenditures for the whole year. This amount is more than all budget expenditures for 2021 — UAH 1,490 billion ($40.5 billion).
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