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The deputy named the reason.
Funding for a number of state budget expenditures is currently on hold, although these expenditures are provided for by law on the State Budget for 2026 year. The situation could change closer to December. This was reported by Danilo Hetmanets, head of the Verkhovna Rada committee on finances, tax and customs policy, citing a corresponding government decision.
“The government has decided to postpone a large part of unprotected expenditures until December. This decision is driven by delays in funding caused by a disruption in Ukraine’s international obligations in the Verkhovna Rada,” he wrote on social media.
It concerns the fact that Parliament did not vote for bills whose adoption is necessary to continue the IMF loan program.
Currently, the unprotected budget items include capital expenditures: repairs, reconstruction, construction, etc. This decision does not yet affect salaries of budget workers, social security, and current transfers to local budgets.
Earlier, Prime Minister of Ukraine Serhiy Koretsky said that the government is introducing a strict regime of budget savings beyond defense needs, since the defense portion of the budget itself has a deficit of 27 billion dollars.
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