Billions of hryvnias have been selected at the Armed Forces: how much money did the army lose through the border blockade

The Report of the Provisional Investigation Commission (TSC) of the Verkhovna Rada states that blocking the border narrows the possibility of financing the defense of Ukraine. Due to the Polish farmers who are currently continue to block all border crossing points, Ukraine has undergone 7. 7 billion hryvnias in February 2024.

These revenues were to enter the state budget for the financing of the Armed Forces, since the state during a full -scale war with Russia, all received customs revenues are directed to funding for defense. That is, through the blockade of the border, Ukraine loses its ability to finance its own army. These data are in the report of the Provisional Investigation Commission (TSC) of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (VRU) on economic security.

The document in his Telegram channel was published by the first deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, Yaroslav Zheleznyak. The document states that the main source of filling the state budget from customs payments is value added tax (VAT) from imported goods. This "import" VAT is fully credited to the General Fund of the State Budget, that is, it is fully directed to ensuring the defense capability of the state.

Since 2024, the excise tax has also been fully directed to the General Fund of the State Budget. "Duties are the general fund of the State Budget with the same exception. Thus, blocking the border adversely affects not only the business activity of the business, but also narrows the possibility of financing the defense of Ukraine as a result of non -reception of customs payments," the document reads.

The strikers plan to paralyze the movement in more than 500 settlements of the country, having gone to the streets and routes of agricultural machinery. Farmers, in particular, promise that they block about ten major roads that lead to Warsaw. In addition, farmers do not refuse to block the movement of trucks on the border with Ukraine.

The Poles continue to demand from the European Union to change environmental policies, to provide them with monetary compensation and to prohibit the import of agro -products from non -EU countries, including Ukraine. We will remind, in the morning of March 15, Polish farmers began blocking the checkpoint "Predator", located on the border with the Slovak Republic.