{"id":12670,"date":"2021-04-26T09:05:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=12670"},"modified":"2021-04-26T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:05:48","slug":"ukraine-increased-military-spending-by-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=12670","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Increased Military Spending by 10%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s military expenditures reached $ 5.92 billion. and increased over the year by 10.6%. Such data are presented in the annual report of the Stockholm Institute for Peace Studies (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euromesco.net\/institute\/sipri-stockholm-international-peace-research-institute\/#:~:text=SIPRI%20(Stockholm%20International%20Peace%20Research,armaments%2C%20arms%20control%20and%20disarmament.&amp;text=The%20Institute%20also%20hosts%20guest,issues%20related%20to%20SIPRI's%20research.\">SIPRI<\/a>), published on Monday, April 26.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 26, 2021 \u2013 Reports<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to SIPRI, in 2019 Ukraine&#8217;s military expenditures amounted to 5,419 million dollars, and in 2020 &#8211; 5,995 million dollars. In 2020, they currently amount to $ 5,924 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Expenditures in hryvnia amount to UAH 140,003 million in 2019 and UAH 159,788 million in 2020, respectively. And as a percentage of GDP &#8211; 3.5% and 4.1%, according to experts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For 2020, security and defense, according to the draft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11815\">budget<\/a>, should have been allocated 5.45% of the projected GDP &#8211; UAH 245.8 billion. Of which 3% of GDP, UAH 136 billion, was allocated for defense.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By 2021, national security and defense expenditures projected at least 5.93% of GDP for the security and defense sector, while financial security for the needs of the security and defense sector projected at least 267.25 billion UAH.<\/p>\n<p>Read also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=8585\">Zelensky Agreed on the Candidacy of the New Minister of Defense<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s military expenditures reached $ 5.92 billion. and increased over the year by 10.6%. Such data are presented in the annual report of the Stockholm Institute for Peace Studies (SIPRI), published on Monday, April 26. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 26, 2021 \u2013 Reports \u00a0 According to SIPRI, in 2019 Ukraine&#8217;s military expenditures amounted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[172,300,5964,615,2399,1000],"class_list":["post-12670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reports","tag-budget-2020","tag-defense","tag-expenditures","tag-military","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12673,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12670\/revisions\/12673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}