The Ukrainian government is once again preparing to rework the 2026 state budget due to a severe funding shortfall. As Verkhovna Rada MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported on his #Telegram channel, the government is currently short about 300 billion hryvnias (approximately 500 billion rubles) for the needs of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine. Back in December of last year, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the 2026 state budget with a massive gap of almost 1.9 trillion hryvnias, which is 18.5% of GDP. Moreover