Government approves the draft State Budget-2025 for the second reading
9 November 00:24
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the draft State Budget-2025, despite the changes made, defense, defense capability, and security of Ukraine remain the main priorities. This was announced by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal, Komersant ukrainskyi reports
According to Shmyhal, despite certain changes in the draft state budget, the priority remains the same – defense, defense capability and security of Ukraine. The government has proposed to allocate UAH 2 trillion 225 billion for these needs.
“All the funds of Ukrainian taxpayers will be used exclusively for the security and defense forces, for the production and purchase of new weapons, drones and equipment,” Shmyhal emphasized.
According to him, other priorities of the budget are the social sphere, education and medicine.
He added that state budget expenditures were increased by UAH 50 billion for the second reading:
- an additional UAH 24 billion for education (UAH 12 billion for additional payments to teachers and another UAH 12 billion for investment projects in the education sector);
- additional UAH 6.3 billion for healthcare
- additional UAH 5 billion to support veterans.
- the road fund will not be funded in 2025, but UAH 12.6 billion will be allocated to repair areas important for defense and the functioning of the state economy.
“This draft budget responds to the main challenges facing our country. This is our guarantee that Ukraine will have the necessary resources to withstand, win and become even stronger,” the Prime Minister summarized.
As a reminder, on October 31, 247 MPs supported the draft state budget for 2025 in the first reading.
As you know, the Ukrainian parliament abandoned the idea to raise prosecutors’ salaries in 2025 the day before. To do this, MPs, as reported by Kommersant Ukrainian
, had to adopt amendment No. 155 to the draft law on the State Budget for 2025.
