A third of all Moscow spending is now dedicated to aggression against Ukraine. Russia's spending on war and security agencies exceeds spending on education, health, social policy, and the national economy combined.
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Three people died in the southern city of Kherson when a Russian drone struck a minibus on Sunday morning, the region's administration said. Seven other people were injured in the attack.
“Today, Russia showed its true face again. On the anniversary of the referendum on the independence of Ukraine, the enemy dealt a new blow to civilians by dropping explosives on a minibus taxi,” wrote the governor of the region Oleksandr Prokudin on his Telegram channel.
Furthermore, the number of injured in Saturday's missile attack in Dniproin central Ukraine, rose to 24, including seven in serious condition, Dnipro region governor Serhiy Lysak said. Four people were killed in the attack.
This Saturday, four more people were killed and 19 others injured in Russian attacks in the Kherson and Donetsk regions.
Moscow sent 78 drones to Ukraine overnight from Sunday to Monday, according to Ukrainian officials. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, 32 drones were destroyed and another 45 were lost, probably electronically neutralized.
Drones were launched from Kursk, Orel and Bryansk.
Ukrainian air defenses were set up in the Kyiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Sumy and Poltava regions.
In Russiaa child was killed during a Ukrainian drone attack in the Bryansk region, on the border with Ukraine, according to the region's governor, Alexander Bogomaz.
The Russian Defense Ministry said 29 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight from Sunday to Monday in four regions of western Russia: 20 over the Bryansk region, seven over the region over Kaluga and one over the Smolensk and Kursk regions.
Record 2025 military budget… after that of 2024 which was record a year ago
Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved budget plans, increasing 2025 military spending to record levels, as Moscow seeks to assert itself in Ukraine's war.
About 32.5% of your budget published Sunday on the government website were allocated to national defense, in the amount of 13.5 trillion rubles (more than 137 billion dollars), against 28.3% this year.
As noted by online media outlet The Bell, spending on war and security agencies exceeds spending on education, health, social policy and the national economy combined.
Lawmakers in both houses of the Russian parliament, the State Duma and the Federation Council, had already approved the plans over the past ten days.
Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine since February 2022 is the largest conflict in Europe since World War II and exhausted the resources of both parties.
Kyiv has received billions of dollars in aid from its Western allies, but Russian forces are larger and better equipped. In recent months, the Russian army has gradually pushed back Ukrainian troops in the eastern regions.
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