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Intelligence of the British Ministry of Defense considers it quite probable that Russia will be able to maintain defense spending in 2024 at the level of 10.8 trillion rubles.
However, the British Defense Department is confident that the Russian leadership will be able to do this only at the expense of the economy as a whole.
In addition, British intelligence officers add, we should not forget that full information about Russian defense spending is always classified.
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Therefore, this should be taken into account analyzing leaked documents from the Russian Ministry of Finance.
But, in any case, the British Ministry of Defense intelligence notes, these figures indicate that Russia is preparing for a long war in Ukraine.
Let us recall that the other day Bloomberg published the draft budget of the Russian Federation, according to which Russia's defense spending in 2024 will increase to approximately 30% of total government spending.
This amount is equivalent to approximately 6% of gross domestic product and more than similar ones costs in 2023 by 68%.
By the way, the documents leaked online became an addition to the comments of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who, during a meeting of the board of the department he heads, assured that in the war with Ukraine “ ;consistent implementation of the action plan measures by 2025 will allow achieving certain goals”.
The full-scale war in Ukraine has been going on for the 585th day.
You can follow the situation in cities on the interactive map of military operations in Ukraine and on the map of air raids in Ukraine.
