The annual budget of the regions per square kilometer: how many Russian Federation spends on the occupation of Ukraine

To spread: for 2025 the State Duma of the Russian Federation laid an increase in the cost of war to 13. 5 trillion rubles, ie 37. 1 billion per day. This is less than the budget of four Russian regions per year. The Russian Federation for the war for three years of a full -scale invasion amounted to 22. 2 trillion rubles (about $ 248. 5 billion), and the seizure of one square kilometer of Ukrainian territory cost Russians in 316 billion rubles, writes The Moscow Times.

Journalists note that in 2022 the State Duma of the Russian Federation laid 4. 7 trillion rubles to "national defense", in 2023 the amount increased to 6. 8 trillion rubles, and in 2024 the costs of this article were already 10. 7 Trlon rubles. According to experts from the Russia Matters analytical platform at Kennedy Harvard School, Russia has occupied the Ukrainian territory of 70. 05 thousand square kilometers since 2022.

Thus, one square kilometer of the captured territory of Ukraine cost Russians 316 billion rubles. The authors of the material note that this exceeds the annual budgets of the regions of the Russian Federation by 83%. Only 14 out of 83 Russian regions have budgets per year larger than 316 billion rubles. Among them are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and more. At the same time, the budget for 2025 has a further increase in the cost of war to 13.

5 trillion rubles - that is, 260 billion rubles per week. The four Russian regions - the Jewish Autonomous Region, Ingushetia, Kalmykia and the Nenets Autonomous District - spend less money in a year than the Russian army in one day for the war against Ukraine (37. 1 billion rubles).