Russia’s Putin approves record military-focused budget

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Russia’s ****** approves record military-focused budget

Russian President Vladimir ****** has approved a military-focused budget for 2025 to 2027 that raises spending to record levels, a document published on the official legal acts website shows.

The state budget for 2025 includes a 25 per cent hike in military spending but will be the most secretive in post-******* history, with almost a third of all spending closed to public scrutiny.

About 32.5 per cent of the budget has been allocated for national defence, amounting to 13.5 trillion rubles ($A194 billion), up from a reported 28.3 per cent in 2024.

Politicians in both houses of the Russian parliament, the State Duma and Federation Council, approved the plans in the past 10 days.

The government has acknowledged that the needs of what Moscow calls its special military operation in Ukraine and support for the military will remain the budget priority along with social needs and technological development.

The government has presented the draft budget as “balanced”, with the deficit falling to 0.5 per cent against 2024’s projected deficit of 1.7 per cent and state debt remaining below the 20 per cent mark for the next three years.

Russia’s war on Ukraine, which started in February 2022, is Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II and has drained the resources of both sides.

Kyiv has been getting billions of dollars in help from its Western allies, but Russia’s forces are ******* and better equipped, and in recent months the Russian army has gradually been pushing Ukrainian troops back in eastern areas.

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