Defense to remain a priority in Russia’s federal budget, Finance Minister Siluanov said.
On Tuesday, Ukraine’s Armed Forces attacked with a drone a radiation monitoring post at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, the largest of its kind in Europe.
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“As a result of a Ukrainian drone attack, a radiation monitoring post at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, located 13 kilometers from the plant near the town of Ivanovka, was damaged,” plant representatives said in a statement on social media.
The post is part of a radiation monitoring system in the plant’s area that provides periodic data on radiation levels and allows for an immediate response to possible changes in the situation.
On Sept. 13, Russia also reported that Ukraine had attacked the training center at the Zaporozhye nuclear plant with drones more than 10 times.
In addition, Alexei Likhachev, director of Russia’s state nuclear agency, Rosatom, reported the deaths of two Russian servicemen in a Ukrainian attack on trucks carrying fuel for the plant.
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Russia’s 3-Year Budget to Prioritize Defense
On Monday, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that ensuring Russia’s defense and security would be one of the federal budget’s priorities for the next three years.
“The Finance Ministry’s tasks have always been to strike a balance and to ensure that this balance does not affect the economy or the high cost of money, and that funds go to the most important things — which for us now are defense and frontline tasks,” he said.
Speaking at the Moscow Financial Forum, Siluanov also mentioned that Russia’s 2027 federal budget would be set with a deficit of about 2% of GDP.
Commenting on a new sanctions bill adopted by the United States targeting Russia’s energy and defense sectors, Siluanov said: “You know, we’ve probably already built up immunity to all kinds of sanctions — hellish or not. We just go about our business, and the hellish sanctions, as they say, bounce off our financial policy.”
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