Posted on 12/11/2022 10:26:56 AM PST by dennisw
Russia will spend around a third of its total budget on defence, security and law enforcement next year as the Ukraine war continues, UK intelligence has revealed.
Vladimir Putin last week signed into law measures which will see an astonishing £117.5 billion - or 9 trillion rubles - spent in those areas in 2023.
According to the ministry of defence (MoD) “this is a significant increase compared to prior years and will represent over 30 per cent of Russia’s entire budget”.
In their latest intelligence update on the war in Ukraine, they added: “The budget approved by Putin is likely over-optimistic in its expectation of revenue and spending in 2023.
“Therefore, other parts of Russia’s budget are likely to come under increasing pressure to support the costs of the war.”
Details of the economic cost to Russia of the ongoing invasion - which began in February - came after it emerged Moscow is becoming increasingly reliant on Iran for military aid.
Russia needs to replenish its stocks of ballistic missiles so it can continue to target Ukraine’s critical national infrastructure, the MoD said.
And in return for Iran’s backing, Russia is providing the country’s regime with “an unprecedented level of military and technical support that is transforming their defence relationship”.
According to the UK, Russia is running low on short-range ballistic missiles, which can hit targets up to 500km away.
“If Russia succeeds in bringing a large number of Iranian ballistic missiles into service, it will likely use them to continue and expand its campaign of strikes against Ukraine’s critical national infrastructure,” the MoD said.
The update came as it emerged Ukraine has liberated more than half of the territory seized by Russia since the war started.
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"...UK intelligence has revealed."
- believed as an authoritative source by Zeepers everywhere.
Makes sense.
Not me, I only listen to Uncle Vlad in the Kremlin.
Biden doesn’t mind bankrupting the United States either... Gotta protect Hunter’s friends... or at least their borders.
Unlike the United States, where we spend a third of the budget on junk.
ROFL!!!
That word doesn't mean what you think it means.
Ukraine is going to have to attack and seize Crimea in the spring. Failing to do so, it’ll turn into a war of attrition. Ukraine is not going to want that. So by May, we should see a Spring Offensive by the Kyiv Government.
“According to the UK, Russia is running low on short-range ballistic missiles,”
I’ve been hearing this claim for over half a year.
Shit...117 billion... we blow that muck on paper masks and a month of lockdowns. Who ever called these folks world players?
More drone attacks deep inside Russia will be noted by the only population that matters, that within the Moscow club. If you need something done in Russia, hire a Ukrainian.
Conver that into Russian rubles.
May putin continue to spend all his funds on a losing cause
And May the russian people tire of it very soon
May it be so!
It's a start.
Consider not listening to either.
Ukraine ping
Putin’s still a long way from treating this as a total war. During WWII, US defense spending wasn’t 1/3 of the budget - it was over 1/3 of the entire economy.
https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/defense_spending_history
The current Pentagon budget is around $800b. If we were spending at WWII levels, that budget would be over $8T. That’s how we manufactured 100K military aircraft in 4 years, among other feats.
Putin’s unwillingness to go further in mobilizing the Russian economy may be why Russia is short on just about everything. While mobiks are dying in waves, the grocery stores are well-supplied. Even the US had rationing in WWII. Whereas Hitler resisted American measures until the very end, when it was too late to matter, and the Russians could no longer be pushed back over the Urals.
Putin’s principal reason for holding back? He may not feel that the Russian people think the invasion of Ukraine is worth significant sacrifice. Hitler never took the German people’s support for granted, which is why he delayed total mobilization until the very end.
ukraine is spending 1/3 of our budget...
LOL!!!
I am not not sure what Putin hope to accomplished with the war but I do know it would have been cheaper to bribe the Ukraine leadership (making sure the Big Guy got his 10%) then this war is costing Russia to accomplish what he wanted.
If Putin “wins” he may find it to be a Pyrrhic Victory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory
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