{"id":1328627,"date":"2025-12-04T10:42:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/state-budget-2026-there-is-no-room-for-the-army-again\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T06:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:19:49","slug":"state-budget-2026-there-is-no-room-for-the-army-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/state-budget-2026-there-is-no-room-for-the-army-again\/","title":{"rendered":"No Money for Defense: Ukraine\u2019s 2026 Budget Fails the Armed Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has approved the 2026 budget \u2014 a plan that leaves the army without funding while billions are allocated for PR campaigns and political priorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ukraine continues to fight, losing its best people every day, yet the government has once again adopted a budget that fails to meet the real needs of the front and society. Instead of making defence an absolute priority, the document preserves expenditures unrelated to the survival of the state.<\/p>\n

What did the budget have enough money for?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 2026 budget allocates sums that are, at the very least, questionable:<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd39 Over 15 million hryvnias for deputies\u2019 trips \u2014 with no reports, no clear benefits, and no assessment of effectiveness. In wartime, this appears more like a luxury than a state necessity.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd39 Over 60 million hryvnias for the parliamentary media project, including a TV channel funded by taxpayers that provides information selectively, serving the interests of the authorities rather than the public.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd39 Increased spending on the State Bureau of Investigation, the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office, and the Office of the President, despite repeated criticism from the EU and international institutions. This is not public information \u2014 it serves to finance one-sided, politically motivated PR<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd39 4 billion hryvnias for \u201cstrategic communications\u201d of the President\u2019s Office \u2014 effectively a massive, uncontrolled media fund.<\/p>\n

Experiments, propaganda initiatives, and promoting one’s own image under the guise of “communications.” In military reality, these billions are needed in a completely different place.<\/p>\n\t\t