“The Cabinet plans to appeal to the Council for voting for increasing military expenditures.”, – WRITE: www.unian.ua
The Cabinet plans to appeal to the Council for voting for increasing military expenditures.
Marchenko announced a state budget / UNIAN photoThe Government will turn to the Parliament regarding the revision of the state budget to increase military expenditures.
Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko announced this during a speech in the Verkhovna Rada, which was broadcast by People’s Deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko.
“We have a need, in the near future we will contact you, and such an appeal to the Minister of Defense – to amend the Law of Ukraine on the State Budget. These are not any lack, it is not someone’s whim. This is just an understanding that the armed forces are not enough for various reasons,” Marchenko said.
According to the minister, such reasons include changing technologies, changing the supply of weapons from our partners and intensifying the situation on the battlefield.
“If you compare the budget numbers that we have provided to the budget in September and which the budget has been taken, the numbers are fully in line with last year. But you know, the situation cannot be predicted linearly. The situation sometimes requires quite complicated asymmetric decisions. Therefore, we will contact you in the near future,” the minister said.
Lack of funds for the needs of the armyPeople’s Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak earlier stated that the state budget lacks from 400 to 500 billion hryvnias for military expenditures, and the situation repeats last year, when expenditures on defense in the budget are already much exceeding the planned ones.
The economist and executive director of the Case Ukraine Analytical Center Dmitry Boyarchuk, at the same time, notes that the results of the first quarter outlined a clear powerful tendency to exceed budget revenues and it is unclear that “where all the” semi -erit “, which in the budget, seems to be not enough money in the budget.
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