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Russia n President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Turkish Grand National Assembly speaker Numan Kurtulmus at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia , Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024.
The Russian president plans to push national defence up by 25% for 2025, taking it to 6.3% of gross domestic product, according to draft budgetIt means defence spending will be at 13.5 trillion roubles next year, and account for 32% of the total budget.Reuters , the minimum wage of troops on the frontline also just hit a new post-Soviet high, with servicemen reaching salaries of up to 3.25 million roubles in their first year.
That would mean Russia had 1.5m active servicemen, and making it the second largest army in the world after China.In a sign of just how the Ukraine war has intensified recently, last year’s draft budget showed the Kremlin wanted to cut back on defence spending by 21% in 2025.And, when the Ukraine war started in 2022, Moscow spent a comparably low amount – 5.5 trillion roubles – on defence.National security is also expected to go up to 3.
The Soviet Union spent a similar amount while fighting in Afghanistan and maintaining its nuclear weapons during the Cold War.The troops are still occupying the 1,000 sq km area almost two months later, despite Putin’s pledges to the Russian public that he would kick the Ukrainian troops out.opponents in the Kursk region without much training, while more experienced soldiers try to claim more Ukrainian land in the Donbas.
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