{"id":43462,"date":"2026-01-20T17:21:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/maintaining-ukraines-army-over-the-next-10-years-could-cost-700-billion-kachka\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:21:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:21:37","slug":"maintaining-ukraines-army-over-the-next-10-years-could-cost-700-billion-kachka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/maintaining-ukraines-army-over-the-next-10-years-could-cost-700-billion-kachka\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintaining Ukraine's army over the next 10 years could cost $700 billion – Kachka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka stated that maintaining the Ukrainian army over the next 10 years could reach $700 billion. Minister Oleksiy Sobolev added that over $500 billion more should be allocated from the state budget.<\/p>\n

\"Maintaining<\/p>\n

Maintaining the Ukrainian army over the next 10 years could cost up to $700 billion if the war continues. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Taras Kachka during the discussion program of the project "Ukraine: at the forefront of the future," UNN reports.<\/p>\n

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"If the situation does not change, i.e., Russia's aggressive behavior towards Europe and the world in general, then it could cost up to $700 billion over the next 10 years, taking into account the maintenance of the army at its current size and its provision with military equipment," Kachka said.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture Oleksiy Sobolev emphasized that these $700 billion are extra-budgetary defense expenditures, and also added that more than $500 billion should be allocated from the state budget.<\/p>\n

Recall<\/h2>\n

Ukraine and the United States plan to sign an agreement that will provide for the reconstruction of Ukraine, for $800 billion. The details are planned to be agreed upon in Davos between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka stated that maintaining the Ukrainian army over the next 10 years could reach $700 billion. Minister Oleksiy Sobolev added that over $500 billion more should be allocated from the state budget. Maintaining the Ukrainian army over the next 10 years could cost up to $700 billion if the war continues. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}