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The regions of Siberia and the Far East spent at least 5.6 billion per war
By November, 50 regions of Russia spent at least 22.6 billion rubles on mobilized, volunteers, contractors, as well as support for their families. About a quarter of this amount falls on the regions of Siberia and the Far East, follows from the calculations "important stories of the" data of the portal "electronic budget".
According to available data, the Kemerovo region - 1.4 billion rubles in Siberia in Siberia was most of all for the war in Ukraine. Irkutsk region and Khabarovsk Territory - 825 million each.
The regions of Russia will spend more than 22 billion rubles for war in Ukraine (even without taking into account the costs of restoring the seized territories), @Istories_Media was calculated. This money is comparable to the annual budget of Kalmykia. https://t.co/x4pwo7wnus pic.twitter.com/j8maidkhqf
- Important stories (@istories_Media) november 7, 2022
According to the publication, this is the minimum plan of the expenditure of the regions, since the study does not take into account the funds allocated by subjects to restore the "sponsored" regions of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine, which are occupied by the troops of Russia.
In search of additional finances, the regional authorities ask for money from employees of budget organizations. For example, in the Khabarovsk Territory, the amount of forced donation varies from two to six thousand rubles , in the Novosibirsk region - in the amount of one -day earnings . In October, the mayor of Novosibirsk, Anatoly Lokot, reported on the direction of 25 million "to equip the mobilized" after refusing the expenses to celebrate the New Year.
- Mobilization in Russia for war in Ukraine began on September 21. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that up to 300 thousand people will be mobilized to participate in the war. "New Gazeta. Europe" claims that up to a million people can be sent to war.
- According to the "rain", mobilization was supposed to go into three waves and end on November 10. In October, the heads of several regions said that they “received new mobilization tasks” and announced a second wave of mobilization. In the State Duma, they refuted that mobilization is in “waves”, clarifying that this is a continuous process.