{"id":1329805,"date":"2025-12-07T12:44:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/heres-340-billion-for-the-army-where-can-you-realistically-get-the-money\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T04:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:03:31","slug":"heres-340-billion-for-the-army-where-can-you-realistically-get-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/heres-340-billion-for-the-army-where-can-you-realistically-get-the-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Sure, Here\u2019s $340 Billion for the Army \u2014 Just Let Me Find It First"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The best gift to the Armed Forces of Ukraine from politicians wouldn\u2019t be social media rhetoric, but a real increase in financial support.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nina Yuzhanina studied every line of the draft, while European Solidarity prepared amendments to eliminate corrupt and ineffective expenditures and redirect funds to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

They held briefings, blocked the rostrum, met with the government, worked with the budget committee, and demanded that the Verkhovna Rada vote on the budget article by article<\/strong>, rather than approving the entire resolution at once.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut who paid attention? We aimed to redirect the so-called \u2018Ministry of Finance reserve\u2019 (200 billion hryvnias) \u2014 meant for cashback programs and the \u2018war thousand\u2019 \u2014 to truly strengthen the Armed Forces of Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t