Ukraine’s allocates another US$142.3 million for fortifications construction

Photo: General Staff of the Armed Forces

The government has allocated an additional UAH 5.6 billion (approx. US$142.3 million) for the construction of fortifications in Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Mykolaiv, and Kherson oblasts.

Source: Denys Shmyhal, Prime Minister of Ukraine, at a governmental meeting 

Quote: “This year, the government has already set aside UAH 20 billion to build reliable fortifications. Today, we added another UAH 5.6 billion,” Shmyhal said.

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The figure includes UAH 1.1 billion (approx. US$27.9 million) for the construction of fortifications in Donetsk Oblast, more than UAH 1 billion (approx. US$25.4 million) for Zaporizhzhia Oblast, UAH 1.5 billion (approx. US$38.1 million) for Sumy Oblast, and UAH 300 (approx. US$7.6 million) and 400 million (approx. US$10.1 million) for Mykolaiv and Kherson oblasts, respectively.

Background: 

Since the beginning of the year, UAH 20 billion (about US$524 million) was allocated from the state budget’s reserve fund for the construction of fortifications. Other sources of funding contributed an additional UAH 10.7 billion (US$280.5 million).

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