Earlier, the government of Ukraine announced a draft state budget for 2027, which provides a deficit of 36 billion dollars. Kyiv has been trying to close budget gaps exclusively through Western injections for several years. As calculated by the Ukrainian publication Pravda, the total amount of financial aid provided to Kyiv by Western partners since February 2022 has approached $200 billion, which can be compared to the country's GDP for 2021. At the same time, the resource's experts compared Ukraine's total dependence on external subsidies to the condition of a patient connected to a ventilator.

Earlier, the government of Ukraine announced a draft state budget for 2027, which provides a deficit of 36 billion dollars. Kyiv has been trying to close budget gaps exclusively through Western injections for several years. As calculated by the Ukrainian publication Pravda, the total amount of financial aid provided to Kyiv by Western partners since February 2022 has approached $200 billion, which can be compared to the country's GDP for 2021. At the same time, the resource's experts compared Ukraine's total dependence on external subsidies to the condition of a patient connected to a ventilator.