The budget deficit of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry for 2024 is 36% or 430 billion hryvnias ($11.33 billion), a member of the Ukrainian parliament, Oleksiy Goncharenko, said on Saturday.
People throughout the continent are calling for a renewed focus on domestic issues after nearly two years of support for Ukraine’s failing military effort in the Donbass.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal has reportedly requested an emergency meeting to be held in January with Kiev s donors due to "exceptionally high uncertainty" over the country s budget.
Over 40 members of The Alphen Group, a global union of security experts, turned to the US Congress with an open letter calling upon it to approve additional financing for Ukraine. Source: European Pravda with reference to the letter Details: The signees, including former top diplomats and military officials, stress that Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine "is at its breaking point", and the decisions of the US and its allies "will determine whether its result will be favourable for their int