Ukraine's expenditures during the war exceeded those that were planned for the entire year 2022 – an MP of the Verkhovna Rada

What happened? The state expenditures in 230 days of the war exceeded those that had been planned for the entire year before a full-scale invasion.

Source. MP from the Voice parliamentary group, Yaroslav Zhelezniak.

Details. Expenditures from February 24 to October 15 amounted to 1.43 trillion UAH. The money was spent on:

• salary payments – 42.2%, or 605 billion UAH. Of these, salaries for military personnel amounted to 458.5 billion UAH;
• social welfare – 21%, or 301.4 billion UAH;
• purchase of military equipment, weapons, etc. – 13%, or 190.2 billion UAH;
• guarantees of medical care for the population – 6%, or 86 billion UAH;
• public debt service – 5.7%, or 81.6 billion UAH;
• transfers to local budgets – 5.6%, or 79.7 billion UAH.

At the same time, the draft state budget for 2022 from December 2, 2021 provided for expenditures from general and special funds in the amount of 1 trillion 499.5 billion UAH.