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Today, the Russians struck again at tobacco production in Ukraine.
The strike hit JTI's factory in Kremenchuk. It is closed and not operating.
Two weeks ago, 10 September, Boosts? The prompt says keep tokens; translate surrounding. In September, Imperial Brands production in Kyiv was hit. The factory sustained significant damage and halted operations.
7 September 2026 year seven Russian drones hit the British American Tobacco factory in Pryluky.
8 July 2026 year the Kyiv warehouse of finished products of Philip Morris was completely destroyed, which had stopped its factory in Kharkiv back in 2022 year.
Why suddenly are the Russians deciding to strike cigarette production?
The enemy clearly understands that the tobacco industry is a generator of enormous contributions to the budget, which are deliberately directed to the army, defense, soldiers' salaries, drones, fuel, and so on. For everything.
For your understanding of the numbers: in 2025 year the entire tobacco industry paid Ukraine's budget about 177 billion UAH in taxes, which accounted for 7% of all tax revenues in the country.
These are astronomical sums that the enemy, with targeted strikes on factories, consciously seeks to deprive our military of.
I understand that factories will find other supply routes from abroad, will reorganize logistics, but we will lose a huge portion of budget contributions. And that is precisely the enemy's goal: to debilitate the treasury and the army.
And now, having exposed the obvious plan of the Russians, we will ask our authorities.
In a situation where even the enemy understands the importance of tobacco payments, why don't you?
Shadow cigarette production thrives in Ukraine at every turn, robbing the army of 30 billion UAH just in excise taxes.
Poles point at us every week to exposed contraband batches of untaxed cigarettes, and dozens of unmarked companies pull thousands of tons of raw materials into Ukraine that neither the tax service nor customs can stop.
Legal cigarette sales networks are pushing out counterfeit outlets from which the budget receives “0 hryvnias.”
Who hasn't seen the wild economy of 90-s? You will see soon. Not much time left.
Things are even worse with vapes.
Officially, they don't exist. But in every shopping mall, youth line up for “self-mixes” that “pad” importers of saline nicotine, which the same customs and tax authorities do not see.
Yes, perhaps it's time to stop helping the enemy drain the budget and the army?
In due time, gambling halls across the country were closed in one night. There was a directive and political will.
Now the will seems different, as are the commands. To lead, not to fight.
Disagree? Then prove the opposite.
Author: Yevhen Plinsky
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