Another Proof Of The Russians' Huge Losses Has Emerged

In 2024, the Russian army suffered its heaviest losses since the beginning of the war.

The Russian authorities did not have enough money to bury the war dead and pay the families of killed and wounded law enforcers. The State Duma has been asked to add more than 700 million Russian rubles for this in the 2025 budget.

"We can explain" has studied the amendments to the 2025 budget, which the government has submitted to the State Duma. It wants to increase funding for the Defense Ministry by 30 billion Russian rubles and for the Interior Ministry by 13 billion, while sharply cutting spending on the civilian sector, particularly aircraft construction.

The largest items of additional spending relate to deaths and injuries of military and other security personnel:

▪️145.5 million Russian rubles will be given to the Defense Ministry to reimburse funeral expenses. The authorities allocate 51 thousand Russian rubles for the funeral of one military man (and 70 thousand in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sevastopol). That is, additional funds will be enough to bury about 2800 people.

▪️На 61.5 million will increase spending on lump-sum payments to family members of fallen military personnel, those who became disabled as a result of military trauma or were recognized unfit for further service.

▪️181.2 million is additionally allocated for state support of military personnel, participants of training camps, disabled people maimed in the line of duty and their families.

▪️303 million will be spent on benefits for former police and Rosgvardiya officers who received bodily injuries that preclude further service, as well as on payments to their families and dependents.

Of the total increase in funding for the state program "social support of citizens" (by 1 billion 127 million Russian rubles), more than three quarters of the additional expenditures are related to the military and law enforcement agencies, according to "MO".

The authorities want to balance the growing budget deficit by cutting allocations to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (by 111 billion Russian rubles) and the Ministry of Energy (by 7 billion). Scientific research, programs for the production of aircraft, ships and the state energy development program will go under the knife.

In 2024, the Russian army suffered the largest losses since the beginning of the war.

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