Kyiv, Ukraine, Nov 19, 2024 (AFP) - Ukraine approves budget giving 60% to defence, security

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2024-11-19

Ukrainian lawmakers voted on Tuesday to approve the government's 2025 budget, in which more than $50 billion -- or 60 percent of all expenditure -- is allocated to defence and security. Kyiv has been forced to massively ramp up military spending as it fights against Russia's better-resourced army in a war that has now been raging for 1,000 days. MPs voted to approve defence and security outlays of 2.23 trillion Ukrainian hryvnia ($54 billion), ou......

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