At a minimum, the pensions of all pensioners in the country could be raised for the funds burned in Ukraine.
The cost of destroyed Russian equipment, which exhibited for Independence Day on Khreshchatyk in Kyiv, reaching $176 million, calculated by Forbes Ukraine In general, during the six months of the war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed 12,142 units of Russian military equipment worth $16.6 billion. And this is without taking into account the missiles that the Russian Federation uses daily attacks Ukraine.
The biggest lossthe Russian Army became the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet with powerful weapons – the missile cruiser “Moskva” worth $750 million.
Before the sinking of the “Moskva”, the most expensive loss of the Russians was a large Il-76 amphibious aircraft for $86 million, which was shot down by air defense forces at the end of February in the sky over Vasylkov in the Kyiv region.
The third most expensive was the large amphibious assault ship “Saratov” for $75 million, which was destroyed in the port of occupied Berdyansk , where he delivered military equipment.
The publication notes that it did not include the cost of missiles fired over Ukraine in the assessment of losses, because it is difficult to calculate their exact number. In particular, the General Staff stated that only in the first two months of the war, the Russian Federation used approximately 1,300 missiles. Their value is estimated at $7.5 billion.
In turn, VoxCheck calculated that with this money, Russia could implement a number of modernization projects within the country, or simply give almost 1.5 million Russians their dream white car. Ladu” without a certificate about the death of a relative in the war in Ukraine.
What could be done with the funds spent on equipment for the war in Ukraine:
- double the pensions of all pensioners; li>
- lay more than 32 thousand km of roads;
- build about 46 thousand km of gas pipeline and supply gas to almost 7 thousand settlements;
- build more than 3 thousand kindergartens or schools;
- build 141 surgical hospitals or 177 infectious diseases hospitals;
- purchase almost 370,000 ambulances;
- feed 15 million poor people during the year. However, this will still not be enough to feed everyone: in 2022, 20.9 million people or 14.3% of the country's population will live below the poverty line in Russia.
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