The funding allocated to the Security and Defense Forces is significantly lower than the actual needs

Parliament supports all initiatives to increase defense sector expenditures.

Fedir Venislavskyi, MP and member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, made this statement at the Media Center Ukraine.

“Last year, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine submitted a request that was five times greater than the allocated amount. A similar situation, where needs are two to three times higher, exists across all security and defense sectors. Even for the next year, we have budgeted only the minimum possible requirement for the Defense Forces. If changes occur, parliament will support them,” he said.

Venislavskyi added that parliament prioritizes defense spending. However, in order to increase these expenditures, it is necessary to identify sources of revenue for the state budget.

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