{"id":1300489,"date":"2025-10-02T13:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/since-november-military-salaries-have-been-under-threat-the-budget-is-short-300-billion-hryvnias\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:34:15","slug":"since-november-military-salaries-have-been-under-threat-the-budget-is-short-300-billion-hryvnias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/since-november-military-salaries-have-been-under-threat-the-budget-is-short-300-billion-hryvnias\/","title":{"rendered":"Since November, military salaries have been under threat \u2013 the budget is short 300 billion hryvnias."},"content":{"rendered":"

With three months left until the end of the year, the 2025 state budget still lacks funds to pay Ukrainian military salaries\u2014the deficit is estimated at approximately UAH 300 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was stated by the head of the Verkhovna Rada Budget Committee, Roksolana Pidlasa, in an interview<\/a> with RBC-Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The main hope is to negotiate with international partners so that part of the money allocated by the EU can be directed towards these needs.<\/p>\n

“This will become possible when the European Commission finally agrees on the possibility of using 6 billion euros of ERA Loans (interest from frozen assets – ed.) for operational military needs,” says Podlasa.<\/p>\n

According to her, the Ministry of Finance is finalizing the amount and preparing draft budget amendments, which they plan to submit in early October.<\/p>\n

Journalists also inquired about the deadline.<\/p>\n

“Our deadline isn’t dictated by the European Commission. Ours is dictated by the need to pay the military starting November 1,” the official noted.<\/p>\n

When asked, “So, we only have money until November 1st?” Podlassa replied, “We have some after November 1st, but not enough.”<\/p>\n

An additional budget deficit began accumulating at the beginning of the year. As the head of the Verkhovna Rada Budget Committee explains, the main reasons were:<\/p>\n

a shortage of weapons from partners\u2014Ukraine had to buy them at its own expense, spending resources originally planned for military salaries;<\/p>\n

the need for social security for military personnel – the state had to cover the needs of military personnel and their families.<\/p>\n

Back in July, when the budget amendments were being approved, it was already clear that there wouldn’t be enough funds to last until the end of the year. However, at that time, there were no resources to cover the defects.<\/p>\n

“The government had already stretched revenues to their maximum, and it was no longer possible to do so,” Podlasa admits.<\/p>\n

In negotiations with the EU, the use of ERA Loans \u2013 interest on frozen assets \u2013 is being considered as an operational source for payments.<\/p>\n

“You can cut the budget, but non-military expenses are covered by international partners… social programs are financed by international partners,” Podlasa notes.<\/p>\n

Therefore, it is impossible to simply transfer this money to military salaries.<\/p>\n

Negotiations with the European Commission and individual countries have been ongoing for several months. A parliamentary representative notes that funding for November and December must be urgently found, otherwise military payments will have to be cut or other compromises will have to be found in the security and defense sector.<\/p>\n

At the same time, as Podlasa noted in response to a question about a temporary gap in the ability to pay military salaries, the government will not allow such a situation, and “to cover temporary liquidity gaps, the government is attracting funds from the placement of government bonds.”<\/p>\n

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With three months left until the end of the year, the 2025 state budget still lacks funds to pay Ukrainian military salaries\u2014the deficit is estimated at approximately UAH 300 billion. This was stated by the head of the Verkhovna Rada Budget Committee, Roksolana Pidlasa, in an interview with RBC-Ukraine. The main hope is to negotiate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1294595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76874,76875,76892,76871],"class_list":["post-1300489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news","category-economy","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}