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In the draft state budget for 2027, the government has allocated more funds for monetary support of servicemembers, but it set the base payment at 20 thousand hryvnias. Member of Parliament Mykhailo Tsymbaliuk said that it is still unknown whether the increase in overall expenditures will lead to higher payments to mobilized personnel, and the final budget figures are still being discussed.
Mykhailo Tsymbaliuk said this on the air of the Rada TV channel.
According to the deputy, the amount of funds planned for servicemembers’ monetary support next year has been increased. At the same time, in the government’s presented draft the base payment for a servicemember is set at 20 thousand hryvnias. Tsymbaliuk considers this figure insufficient and notes that its revision remains a matter of discussion.
The MP drew attention to the fact that the size of the base monetary support matters not only for the current incomes of servicemembers. He said that in the future it will determine a number of social payments, including pension provision.
“The Cabinet of Ministers is budgeting next year’s base monetary support for a servicemember at 20 thousand hryvnias. This is unacceptable, and a discussion is currently underway,” Tsymbaliuk said.
At the same time, 20 thousand hryvnias is the figure named by the deputy as the base monetary support, not the amount of all possible payments to a servicemember. The provided data do not imply that every servicemember in 2027 will receive exactly that amount or that other components of their monetary support will be canceled.
Separately, negotiations with the Ministry of Defense are ongoing regarding contracts for servicemembers that envisage higher payments. However, according to Tsymbaliuk, securing funding for such contracts is already difficult within this year’s budget.
“There is already not enough money in this year, in this budget, to finance those contracts,” the deputy said. He did not name specific sums lacking for these payments in the cited statement.
Tsymbaliuk expects that during further consideration of the budget the monetary support figures may still be revised. According to him, government representatives during the project presentation allowed for the possibility of its revision, and discussions with the Ministry of Finance are ongoing.
The issue of payments to servicemembers is also raised in the context of the overall state financial deficit. Member of Parliament Vadym Ivchenko said that the funds foreseen in the budget for 2026, in his assessment, will not be enough even for two months of servicemembers’ salary payments. He links the possibility of further financing to the acceleration of aid from Ukraine’s Western partners.
Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi also described the state of public finances as close to critical. According to the data cited, the Cabinet of Ministers has introduced a stricter regime of budgetary savings and plans to save 70 billion hryvnias to direct them to funding the Defense Forces.
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