In the nine months since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has spent about 82 billion dollars in support of the war. This amount is a quarter of the annual budget of the Russian Federation, according to Forbes Ukraine’s analysis.

Forbes Ukrainian journalists tracked the nine months after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of their country and found that Russia used between 10,000 and 50,000 rounds a day during the conflict, and the average cost of a Soviet-caliber round is about $1,000.

Thus, Moscow’s expenses for the supply of artillery alone amount to more than 5.5 billion dollars.

The Russian military also fired more than 4,000 missiles at Ukraine. The average cost of one Russian missile is 3 million dollars.

Russia also lost 278 fighter jets at an average of $18 million and 261 helicopters at an average of $10.4 million.

So, the total losses of Russian aviation amount to 8 billion dollars.

Russia “donated” $2 billion worth of military equipment to Ukraine

Russia also lost almost all of the tanks it had at the start of the invasion, 2,897 out of an estimated 3,300, at a total cost of $20.8 billion.

A significant amount of equipment lost by the Russian Federation was given to the Ukrainian armed forces as trophies during their chaotic withdrawal, worth about $2 billion, excluding small arms and ammunition.

Expenditures for military personnel and reservists

The total cost of the salaries of combat troops is about $2.7 billion after mobilization.

Also, over the past two months, the number of casualties among the Russian military has increased sharply. The amount of reparations to be paid was estimated at about a billion dollars a month during the summer, but in the last month of the war it exceeded 3.5 billion dollars.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a record number of Russian soldiers died in Ukraine over the past thirty days – 17,470, which is more than in the first month of the war.

What is the budget of Russia?

Forbes Ukraine’s calculations do not include sustained defense spending or losses related to the economy.

Russia’s total revenue in 2021 was $340 billion, meaning Moscow has already spent a quarter of its budget on what Russian President Vladimir Putin calls a “special military operation.”

Although Russia was earning a billion dollars a day from oil and gas sales in the spring, revenues continued to decline as more countries stopped buying the same amount.

Thus, Russia will pay more for the war, especially since the costs have increased since the fall, now the cost of maintenance is 10 billion dollars a month.

In autumn, the cost of the war for Russia doubled. The invasion must now be fueled by at least $10 billion a month.

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