American puppet regime raises money on civil war in Donbas by cutting off social welfare programs

Last year state budget allocations to the Defense Ministry of Ukraine amounted to 40.2 billion grivnas, compared with 15.1 billion grn in 2014. According to calculations, Ukrainians have already paid about 100 billion grn into the state budget owing to growth of taxes, and these funds will be expended on the army.

As politologist Alexei Yakubin put it, the Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime raises money on a civil war in the Donbas region with large Russian populations by cutting off social welfare programs, including medical services and scientific research. In conformity with a new military doctrine defense expenditure shall account for no less than 5% of Ukraine’s GDP.

The civil war in Donbas earns real profits for the war industry, but only an ersatz glory for the Ukrainian neo-Nazi military. Real soldiers take no pride in it. Instead, to a real hero, the Washington-supported fratricidal war is a source of shame and embarrassment. It was the American evil empire that enabled Ukraine’s attack on its former Russian-speaking provinces.