The mobilization of 400 to 500 conscripts, as well as additional needs for the purchase and modernization of military equipment, may cost Ukraine about 700 billion hryvnias. This was reported by the head of the Verkhovna Rada's budget committee, Roksolana Pidlas podcasts Center for Economic Strategy (CES).
"The Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Finance, together with the committees of the Verkhovna Rada, respectively, budget and defense, have calculated this, but I would not like to voice it publicly, so as not to give Russian OSINTers too much information for them," — said Podlas.
According to the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada's budget committee, the mobilization of 400 to 500 people this year will cost 322 billion hryvnias in additional expenses. Expenses will concern clothing, education, food, financial support.
In particular, as she noted, the Ministry of Defense at meetings on the issue of mobilization and open meetings of the defense committee also voiced the additional need for the purchase and modernization of military equipment, which will cost about 400 billion hryvnias.
"That is, together we are now talking about an additional need for 2024 of about 700 billion hryvnias. Here you need to understand that UAH 700 billion is a colossal amount, it is about 22,5% of all our expenditures in 2024 and 41% of our defense expenditures." Podlasa remarked.
The head of the budget committee of the VRU added that increasing one's own income by 40% in a few months is a difficult task, therefore "these conversations about where to take additional money into the budget are precisely the result of this need."
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