Russia’s defence spending jumped 282% y/y to $26 bln in Jan-Feb -budget data

(005875.811-:E-000062.43:N-AC:R-SU:C-30:V)   

May 15 (Reuters) – Russia spent 2 trillion roubles ($26 billion) on defence in January and February alone, a 282% jump on the same period a year ago, data on the budget portal showed, illustrating the spiralling costs for Moscow of its conflict in Ukraine.

Rising military production and huge state spending are keeping Russia’s industry buzzing along, helping soften the economic impact of Western sanctions.

In the first two months of 2022, 525.4 billion roubles of budgetary funds were spent on "national defence". Russia launched what it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine on Feb. 24 last year.

The data, published on the Federal Treasury’s online budget portal, gives specific insight into military expenditure. The finance ministry stopped publishing individual monthly budget fulfilment data last May, but has now added data for 2022 and the start of this year to the portal.

According to the new data, defence spending amounted to 1.18 trillion roubles in January and 822.4 billion roubles in February.

Russia’s 2023 spending plan envisages 4.98 trillion roubles of expenditure on defence. The data shows the country spent just over 40% of its planned annual allocation for the defence sector in Jan-Feb.

Data published last week showed that Russia’s budget deficit stood at 3.4 trillion roubles for January to April, compared with a 1.2-trillion-rouble surplus in 2022, as Moscow has spent heavily and energy revenues have dropped.

Advertisement · Scroll to continue
Last year, Russia spent 5.51 trillion roubles, or 17.1% of its total expenditure on defence, up from 3.57 trillion roubles, or 14.4%, in 2021.

In January-February 2023, national defence spending was 36.2% of the total budget expenditure, nearly double the amount spent on social policy and almost four times more than spending on the "national economy".

($1 = 77.7205 roubles)

Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-defence-spending-jumped-282-yy-26-bln-jan-feb-budget-data-2023-05-15/

Virus-free.


Jan‘s Advertisement
Attention: Where to find most of Jans Videos: 400 Videos on Bitchute
For those who want to view my videos, the most complete list is on Bitchute. If you go there, youll see over 400 videos that Ive posted in the last 5 years. Just scroll down and keep scrolling down.


Jan‘s Advertisement
Video: Levels of Betrayal: The Jewish Nightmare nobody is expecting...
I also discuss how in South Africa, the National Party betrayed the AWB. In this video I discuss the concept of Jews using Whites to destroy other Whites. But in the end, ALL the Whites end up losing, including those who worked to destroy the Right Wing/Racial Whites.


Jan‘s Advertisement
Video & Audio: Gods of War: The Secret to Winning Battles and Wars
In this age of stupidity we are forgetting really important things that our ancestors used to know instinctively. Jews have remarked that soldiers are stupid and thats completely wrong.