Ukraine’s parliament approves 2025 budget in 1st reading
Source: MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak/Telegram
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has passed the draft state budget for 2025 in the first reading, with 247 MPs voting in favor, according to senior MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak.
The budget projects general fund revenues at 2.7 trillion hryvnias, an increase of 411 billion hryvnias compared to this year. Planned expenditures reach 3.6 trillion hryvnias, up by 535 billion. The budget will prioritizes security and defense needs, earmarking over 2.2 trillion hryvnias (about 26% of GDP). It is 46 billion hryvnias more than in 2024.
The budget also promises a 2.7% increase in real GDP for 2025, with an expected inflation rate of 9.5%. The estimated average annual exchange rate is set at 45 hryvnias to the US dollar, while the minimum wage is projected to remain frozen at 8,000 hryvnias a month.
To commemorate the third anniversary of the full-scale invasion, “Bukvy” has compiled data on the largest donors supporting the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Among them there are charitable foundations and businesses. The list includes, in particular, foundations that provide assistance exclusively from their own resources, without fundraising (such as SCM by Rinat Akhmetov, Epicenter, etc.).
In just 1.5 months, Ukrainian specialists have created an innovative protective shell for the control modules of anti-aircraft missile systems (AMS) Patriot and Iris-T SLM. This development was another step in strengthening Ukraine’s defense capabilities, aimed at protecting key elements of the air defense system from debris damage.
Military serviceman of the International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine with the call sign “Paradox” is the crew commander of the American M113 armored personnel carrier. He is a master at using it and is constantly improving, because the legionnaire’s skills are tested every day in battle. You have to drive to the front lines, often under artillery fire and drone attacks.
Notorious supporter of the concept “in order for a cow to eat less and give more milk, it needs to be fed less and milked more” “Servant of the People” Danylo Hetmantsev, under the guise of “business requirements”, registered a draft law on the collection of VAT on all foreign purchases, regardless of their value. In other words, every Ukrainian, buying goods of any value and purpose abroad, when sending them to Ukraine, will have to pay an additional fifth part, or 20% of the cost of the goods.
Source: UJCU A Molotov cocktail was thrown at a facade of a synagogue in Mykolaiv…