It became known how much money was pumped into the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2019
The state financed the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2019 by almost 17 billion hryvnia, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine for European Integration Anatoly Petrenko spoke about this at a briefing on defense procurement, the department’s press service reports.
“In 2019, we operated within the budget resource of UAH 16 billion 790 million for everything. This financial resource was financed by the state for the needs of the Armed Forces in full at 100%. The success or efficiency of our execution of this budget is 99,3%, 0,7% are those contracts for which the state of affairs continues to be studied, taking into account the risks that must be neutralized,” Petrenko said.
Let us note that the figures announced are only the direct costs of maintaining the army. In general, Ukraine’s military budget amounted to UAH 2019 billion in 136.
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