Russia spent $167 billion on a full-scale invasion, and the Ukrainians destroyed about $34 billion worth of Russian equipment by August 24, Forbes Ukraine reports based on data released by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukraine notes. news.ro.

This figure does not include Russia’s non-war defense spending, nor does it include Russia’s economic losses as a result of numerous international sanctions.

The largest expenditure goes to the supply of the military, which costs 51.3 billion dollars. Salaries of the military cost 35.1 billion dollars, and compensation to the families of those who got into debt – 21 billion dollars, writes kyivindependent.com.

After the depreciation of the ruble in relation to foreign currencies, the budget costs for one soldier were significantly reduced from 200 dollars a day to 120 dollars a day, according to Forbes.

According to Reuters, Russia spent almost 5.6 trillion rubles on defense in the first half of 2023, which already exceeds Russia’s entire federal defense budget planned for 2023.

Moscow was forced to double its defense budget to nearly 10 trillion rubles ($105 billion), or a third of its entire budget by 2023.