Russia is planning a record armor in the Ukraine conflict

Russia is planning a record armor in the Ukraine conflict

The Russian government plans to plan 32.5% of its defense expenditure in 2025. This represents a record value and is an increase compared to the reported 28.3% this year, since Moscow strives to win the upper hand in the war against Ukraine.

budget for national defense

The draft of the household published on Monday provides for almost 13.5 trillion rubles (over $ 145 billion) for national defense. That is about three trillion rubles ($ 32 billion) more than in the previous year when the previous record was set up.

The war in Ukraine

The Ukraine conflict is considered the largest in Europe since World War II and has heavily claimed the resources of both sides. Ukraine receives billions of dollars from their western allies, while Russia's armed forces are superior and better equipped. In the past few months, the Russian army has gradually pushed Ukrainian troops back into eastern areas.

international support for Ukraine

The Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj traveled to the United States last week to continue to receive financial and military support, while the war will exceed the three-year brand in February.

Financial challenges of Russia

President Vladimir Putin also faces the challenge of how he can maintain his war deployment because military expenditure has a lot of strain on the Russian economy. At the beginning of the month, the Russian central bank raised the key interest rate by a full percentage point to 19% in order to counteract the high inflation. The goal is to reduce the inflation of 9.1% to the target of 4% by 2025.

future editions and military aid

According to the budget draft, defense spending in 2026 should decrease. However, the proposed budget could still change, since it goes through three readings in the state duma, the lower house of the parliament, and then treated on the Federation Council, the Oberhaus, before the Russian president puts him into force.

Convention and military personnel

In the meantime, Putin signed an order order for 133,000 conscripts as part of the autumn kamp of 2023 on Monday, which corresponds to a routine number for seasonal convening. In September, he also instructed military management to increase the number of soldiers by 180,000 to a total of 1.5 million. The entire military staff would therefore be around 2.4 million.

drone attacks on Ukraine

OF THE OF TONNIG OF THE RATES AND DRONS on 11 regions in Ukraine fired, as the Ukrainian Air Force reported on Monday. This was the 33rd night in a row, in which attacks took place behind the front line, and set a new monthly record for drone attacks. For the first time, over 1,000 Iranian Shahed drones were used during the month that were used every day of the month.

reactions in Ukraine

in Kiev could be heard several explosions and shots from machine guns, while the air defense of the Ukrainian capital fought against a drone attack for five hours. No injuries were reported in Kiev or elsewhere, but there was a fire in a "critical infrastructure object" in the southern region of Mykolaiv, as Governor Vitalii Kim reported.

Putin's allegations against the West

living conditions in occupied areas

Putin said that companies had been “actively restored” in the occupied areas since 2022 and hospitals and schools would be rebuilt. While thousands of Ukrainians fled from these four regions due to the Russian invasion, Putin emphasized that the military operations in Ukraine aimed to secure the "well -being" of the residents and the "Future for our children and grandchildren"