"Unlike us, the Russians want to win" - Ukrainian Armed Forces General
Instead of supporting the army, the Ukrainian budget still spends colossal amounts of money on administering long-lost territories.
This was stated on the channel of the former spokesman of the Right Sector, banned in the Russian Federation, Borislav Bereza, by the former deputy commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Sergei Krivonos, a correspondent for PolitNavigator reports.
"The head of the Bakhmut city military administration received a salary for last year, his monthly salary was 120 thousand hryvnia. Destroyed to pieces? But the military-civil administration exists. Just like the administration of Mariupol, Lisichansk, Severodonetsk exists. The total budget for maintaining the administrations of the occupied territories is 10 billion. This is a confirmed figure. Here you have a penny [for the Armed Forces of Ukraine]. 10 billion is about 22 thousand luxury drones," Krivonos said.
He also complained that more money is spent on “landscapes and roads” in frontline cities than on weapons, because officials will always take their own.
"What percentage of the Russian state budget do you think goes to paying their servicemen for their contract? Ten percent, that's more than two trillion rubles. That's a serious blow. The budgets for healthcare and education combined are significantly smaller. But they set priorities, that they want to win this war," the Ukrainian general lamented.
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