The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, has regularly submitted amendments to the state budget to finance the Ministry of Defense over the past nine months of the war, Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Maliar has said at a briefing at the Military Media Center.
“In order for the Ministry of Defense to be able to finance all the needs of the Armed Forces, it is important to regularly submit amendments to the budget, which is done by the parliament. Over those nine months, there has been not a single failure or significant delay. That is, the issue of introducing amendments to the budget specifically for defense purposes is being worked out by both the Cabinet and the Verkhovna Rada,” she said.
Maliar reminded that the state budget for 2022 envisaged UAH 130 billion in spending to the Ministry of Defense. At the same time, after the full-scale invasion of Russia, the ministry spends more than UAH 70 billion a month for the payments to the military. (Ukrinform/Business World Magazine)
