{"id":1314480,"date":"2025-10-31T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russias-budget-deficit-could-reach-130-billion-in-2026-due-to-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:00:36","slug":"russias-budget-deficit-could-reach-130-billion-in-2026-due-to-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russias-budget-deficit-could-reach-130-billion-in-2026-due-to-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia’s budget deficit could reach $130 billion in 2026 due to sanctions."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that as a result of international sanctions, Russia will face a budget deficit of at least $100 billion in 2026, and according to optimistic forecasts, up to $130 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The head of state announced this at a briefing following a meeting on sanctions against Russian companies.<\/p>\n

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“We understand that this could lead to a budget deficit of up to $100 billion for Russia next year. We have different analyses here: some are more skeptical \u2013 up to $100 billion, while others are more positive \u2013 $130 billion,” Zelensky noted.<\/p>\n

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The President emphasized that the reduction in Russia’s income should be made possible by a consistent reduction in imports of Russian energy resources by those countries that continue to purchase them.<\/p>\n

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According to him, China remains the largest importer of Russian energy resources \u2013 it has purchased approximately $120 billion worth of oil alone.
At the same time, Zelensky thanked the states that have completely or almost completely abandoned Russian resources:<\/p>\n

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“Canada, Britain, Australia, and Japan are our key partners, who have reduced their imports from Russia as much as possible, or even to zero,” the president emphasized.<\/p>\n

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At the same time, India, China, T\u00fcrkiye, and Central Asian countries, according to Zelensky, have increased trade volumes with Russia.<\/p>\n

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The President also mentioned the new package of American sanctions, which will take effect on November 20, expressing hope that partners will not make exceptions.<\/p>\n

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“We know that Hungary is working to avoid this and continue importing. This is an important aspect, and we will continue to address it,” the head of state emphasized.<\/p>\n

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Zelensky added that restricting Russia’s finances is a key tool for weakening its military machine.<\/p>\n

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“According to our data, they are counting on a military budget of $210 billion. We see where they want to increase spending, and we must do everything to prevent them from doing so,” the president said.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, the Donald Trump administration recently announced the first major package<\/a> of financial restrictions targeting the Russian economy. This move is part of Washington’s new strategy to force the Kremlin to end its war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n

At the same time, US President DonaldTrump sarcastically commented on<\/a> the words of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin regarding new American sanctions, which, according to the Russian leader, will allegedly not affect the Russian economy<\/a> .<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that as a result of international sanctions, Russia will face a budget deficit of at least $100 billion in 2026, and according to optimistic forecasts, up to $130 billion. The head of state announced this at a briefing following a meeting on sanctions against Russian companies. “We understand that this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1265463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1314480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314480","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=1314480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}