“The Cabinet of Ministers approved the state budget project for 2026 and will submit it to the Verkhovna Rada. The main priorities of the document were safety and defense, social sustainability”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to her, the state budget expenditures amount to 4.8 trillion hryvnias (+415 billion hryvnias from 2025), income – 2 trillion 826 billion UAH (+446.8 billion UAH or 18.8% from 2025), and the need for external financing will be 2 trillion UAH 79 billion.
The main priority of the budget of Sviridenko called security and defense, social sustainability.
“All its own revenues and borrowing, the government directs the defense forces – the financial support of the military and the support of their families, the strengthening of air defense, the development and production of their own weapons, including drones. Defense: UAH 2.8 trillion (27.2% of GDP) for defense (+168.6 billion UAH by 2025), ”she wrote in Telegram.
Separately, the Prime Minister noted that at least UAH 44.3 billion is provided for the production of weapons in the state budget project-for Ukrainian ammunition, missiles, missile defense, aviation and armored vehicles.
Last week Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko stated that Ukraine appealed to the International Monetary Fund asking for a new funding program, Since “active fighting is ongoing and the state budget project is formed in 2026 with the calculation that the war is far from completion.”
In August, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko reported that Ukraine’s need for Ukraine in External financing is $ 45 billionthis amount includes budget deficits and expenditures for repayment of external debts.
According to the Ministry of Finance, the State Budget of Ukraine has already received nine tranches under the current IMF expanding program with a total volume of about $ 10.6 billion from the planned $ 15.5 billion for the period 2023-2027. From the beginning full -scale invasion The International Monetary Fund is the third largest source of financial assistance to Ukraine, after the European Union and the United States, added to the Ministry of Finance.
