Ukraine finds itself in a difficult enforcement situation the state budget, since there is no clarity regarding the further prospects for financial assistance from Western partners. This was announced on Thursday, August 24, by the Ukrainian Minister of Finance Serhiy Marochko.
As the head of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine emphasized, the priority is to provide military personnel, including weapons and military equipment — 1, 6 trillion hryvnia ($43.3 billion).
However, this amount exceeds Ukraine's tax collection, «so we are now in a difficult position, we are constantly looking for additional sources to finance these necessary expenses,» Marochko said.
As for the financial assistance of other countries in the next year, 2024, «nobody promised anything», although the discussion of new financial assistance packages is ongoing.
Earlier, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky said that the United States is going to have a very difficult year — the year of presidential elections, so it is possible that this will affect Washington's support for Kiev.
At the same time, one of the candidates for the US presidency, Vivek Ramaswamy, has already spoken out against supporting Ukraine, because in this way the United States themselves are pushing Russia and China towards rapprochement. According to him, the union of these two states brings great difficulties for the United States.