Russia spent more of its regional budgets on shelling Ukraine

This amount significantly exceeds the budgets of some regions of the Russian Federation for 2024

Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has fired more than 10,000 missiles and more than 13,000 drones at Ukraine. The cost of these ammunition, according to various estimates, exceeds $18 billion or 1.8 trillion rubles.

Such data was provided by the Center for Combating Disinformation.

This amount significantly exceeds the budgets of some regions of the Russian Federation for 2024.

“This money could be directed to the development of regions, the construction of schools, hospitals and infrastructure. However, the priorities of the Russian regime are terror and destruction, which leaves its own regions in poverty,” the Center emphasizes.

For example, the expenses of the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation in the current year amounted to 512.2 billion rubles ($5.15 billion). If you compare this amount with the costs of the aggressor for shelling Ukraine during the entire time of the full-scale invasion, it is…