2024-09-30 17:31:37
Did you miss the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 minutes get stock for you every evening. Between strong announcements, advances in the front and battle results, this is the important part of this Monday, the 950th day of the war.
News of the day
If you needed proof of Russia’s fervent desire to continue its aggression in Ukraine, here it is: the 2025 budget bill presented this Monday provides for a 30% increase in military spending. Defense spending will reach 13.5 trillion rubles (130 euros at the current rate) in 2025, according to the text which still must be approved by the Duma. The country’s military budget has already exploded in one year by almost 70% in 2024, representing this year with defense investments 8.7% of GDP according to Vladimir Putin, the first in modern history of Russia.
The Kremlin therefore anticipates a long conflict with Ukraine and does not seem to be concerned by the risks of the dependence of its economy on military orders, at a time when inflation is hovering around 9%, reducing the purchasing power of the Russians.
In addition to seeing this new explosion in his military budget, the “Tsar” signed a decree in mid-September ordering an increase of almost 15% in the number of soldiers, bringing it to 1.5 million. With this new increase, 1 in 50 properties in Russia will now be in the war which, according to the Russian media, will become the second largest in the world after China.
The number of days
1,300. The number of political prisoners in Russia, according to the opposition Vladimir Kara-Mourza who spoke this Monday before the Council of Europe, emphasizes that the number of people in prison for their opinions exceeds what has arrived “in years the last of the ‘Soviet Union’. Vladimir Kara-Mourza spent more than two years in prison in his country where he was sentenced to twenty-five years of detention for “treason”, after he was convicted of attacking Ukraine. “We must continue to fight for their release and for all the unjustly imprisoned people in the world,” urged the man who was released on August 1 as part of a prisoner exchange between Russia and the West. The sun.
Word of the day
« All the set goals will be achieved” in Ukraine. »
Vladimir Putin said this Monday in a video broadcast also for the “Day of Reunification” which is in Russia the celebration of the second anniversary of the reunification of the four Ukrainian regions. However, it does not have full control, despite the elections, considered “fictitious” by the international community, organized there.
Traditional today
In the night from Sunday to Monday, the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, was targeted by a new drone attack which, according to the authorities, this time did not cause any injuries.
At the front, the Ukrainian army is on the defensive, especially in the Donetsk region, where the Russian army is advancing, claiming this Monday the victory of a small town, Nelipivka. Moscow’s troops are also getting dangerously close to Pokrovsk, a mining town on a strategic location for the logistics of the Ukrainian army.
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