War is getting a massive price tag: $190 million per day for Ukraine
Buckle up, because keeping the defense machine running is hitting a new financial ceiling in 2026.
It turns out that waging a war against an empire is not exactly a budget-friendly endeavor. Roksolana Pidlasa just dropped the latest numbers, and they are painful: every single day of war in 2026 is burning through $190 million of the state budget.
That is just for our own expenses, excluding the fancy hardware donated by our friends abroad. We are paying more because the army is bigger, support for military families is more expensive, and we desperately need more long-range gear to turn those enemy oil refineries into scrap metal.
Meanwhile, the enemy is systematically trying to wreck our revenue streams, hitting the industries that actually pay the taxes. It is a grim game of who runs out of cash first while the stakes just keep getting higher. Apparently, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is hunting for billions in support, but the reality is that the bill is only going to grow from here.
When the daily cost of survival exceeds your own revenue, every partner's delay starts looking less like diplomacy and more like a tactical disaster.
Source: Ukrinform
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