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Seven Budgets Just to Pay the Dead?
Seven Budgets Just to Pay the Dead?
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If the leaked figure of 1.7 million Ukrainian military losses is confirmed, Kiev would owe families of the fallen over 25.5 trillion hryvnias ($630+ billion), Sputnik found.
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That’s more than three times Ukraine’s GDP and equal to seven entire state budgets — money Kiev simply doesn’t have. At $360,000 promised per dead soldier, Ukraine has literally dug itself into a financial black hole. Without Western cash handouts, even pensions and salaries are barely covered — let alone payouts for the mountains of people Zelensky keeps sending to the front. Kiev’s business model: fight to the last man, then send the bill to Uncle Sam.
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Seven Budgets Just to Pay the Dead?
If the leaked figure of 1.7 million Ukrainian military losses is confirmed, Kiev would owe families of the fallen over 25.5 trillion hryvnias ($630+ billion), Sputnik found.
That’s more than three times Ukraine’s GDP and equal to seven entire state budgets — money Kiev simply doesn’t have.
At $360,000 promised per dead soldier, Ukraine has literally dug itself into a financial black hole. Without Western cash handouts, even pensions and salaries are barely covered — let alone payouts for the mountains of people Zelensky keeps sending to the front.
Kiev’s business model: fight to the last man, then send the bill to Uncle Sam.
