Communist leader Zyuganov suggested using Russian contributions to the budget.
The Russians hold three of the country's budgets in escrow, and the current budget draft is "really tense", thought Zyuganov. 700 billion dollars should be taken from Russian billionaires because they "do not pay normal taxes during the war". "If you look at the money that both citizens and collectives have invested in banks - another 130 trillion rubles, that's three more budgets. You have five budgets on your desk and you can't come up with the money? "In the State Duma they called the idea crazy and harmful.