{"id":1379796,"date":"2026-04-08T19:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/poroshenko-on-emotional-speech-in-the-rada-it-was-about-financing-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:22:47","slug":"poroshenko-on-emotional-speech-in-the-rada-it-was-about-financing-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/poroshenko-on-emotional-speech-in-the-rada-it-was-about-financing-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Poroshenko on emotional speech in the Rada: it was about financing the Armed Forces of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The military levy should go exclusively to finance the Armed Forces of Ukraine, not to populist ideas. Petro Poroshenko once again reminded of this after the explosive reaction on social media to his emotional speech in the Verkhovna Rada.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was surprised yesterday how the Internet broke when my speech in the Verkhovna Rada, with the names of government programs for spending state budget funds, including the military levy, was announced,\u201d Poroshenko said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe insisted and achieved that the military levy funds go to the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There are more than two hundred of them here, we cooperate with each of them,\u201d the fifth President showed a wall of chevrons of units that the Poroshenko Foundation helps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf you don\u2019t spend money on the Armed Forces, you, the disrespectful government, will get \u201cpitching,\u201d \u201cchecking,\u201d and even a full \u201ce-tank,\u201d Poroshenko noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yesterday in the Verkhovna Rada, during a discussion of bill 15110 on the collection of military levies, Poroshenko stated that the European Solidarity faction, during a meeting with government officials, firmly insisted on the targeted use of this money exclusively for the needs of the Defense Forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think the same should be done with military bonds, which also should not be spent on three thousand kilometers of railway and a \u201csingle marathon\u201d \u2013 only for the military,\u201d Poroshenko emphasized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe will insist on returning personal income tax to local councils to the accounts of the brigades. We must stop corrupt thefts when purchasing weapons. The money should be as close as possible to those who are fighting. The money should go to the army,\u201d he urged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The military levy should go exclusively to finance the Armed Forces of Ukraine, not to populist ideas. Petro Poroshenko once again reminded of this after the explosive reaction on social media to his emotional speech in the Verkhovna Rada. \u201cI was surprised yesterday how the Internet broke when my speech in the Verkhovna Rada, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1379788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1379796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379796","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1379788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}