Budanov: The war costs Russia almost a billion dollars a day
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- Mariia Khamitsevych
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13:00, 27 February, 2025
Kyrylo Budanov: photo: GURThe head of the Defence Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate, Kyrylo Budanov, said that the maintenance of the Russian-Ukrainian war is costing the Kremlin huge amounts of money.
In an interview with «Ukrinform», he said that Russia spends almost a billion dollars a day on the war.
«This is a very expensive war in general. A day of war costs a little less than a billion for them, which is a huge amount of money. As for the human potential, again, we should not deceive ourselves, the potential, the mobilisation resource of the Russian Federation will calculatedly allow them to move on,» said Kyrylo Budanov.
Budanov noted that the economic problems in Russia are already noticeable.
«Even according to official figures, 41% of the budget is for defence. These are abnormal figures, and almost all social programmes, medical, educational, etc., have been curtailed to meet this budget. That is, the financial and economic impact on the Russian Federation is already noticeable. But again, I say: as long as there is oil, gas, metal, precious metals and stones, they will balance,» the DIU head summed up.
Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the full-scale war had caused Ukraine economic losses of $320 billion.
At the same time, as of 2023, Russia spent about $300 million a day on the war with Ukraine. And the Russian budget spent more in January-June 2023 than it planned to spend in the whole of 2023.