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- cross-posted to:
- europe@feddit.org
- russia@sopuli.xyz
- endlesswar@lemmy.ca
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/44689755
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According to a report by Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service, a significant portion of these expenditures is hidden: 59% of the military budget is undisclosed. During the first three quarters of 2025, spending under “open” budget items amounted to RUB 4.816 trillion, while “closed” items totaled RUB 7.038 trillion. On a year-on-year basis, the classified portion of expenditures increased by 39%.
“The Kremlin is shifting the burden of financing the war onto the population through new taxes and rising prices. Under conditions where any anti-war criticism is punished as ‘treason’, space for public discontent has virtually disappeared. As a result, from 2022 to 2025 prices for Russians rose continuously,” the intelligence service noted.
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Fuel prices increased by 29–35%, and this trend is expected to continue in 2026. Real estate prices in Russia rose by 50% between 2022 and 2025; in 2026, a further increase of 6–7% is expected, while in Moscow specifically prices may rise by up to 20%.
The most sensitive increase has been in food prices: dairy products rose by 62%, and meat by 41%. Forecasts for 2026 predict further price increases of tens of percent.
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Russia’s officially released casualty figures are horrifying. There’s not a lot ambiguous about many economic impacts. The war’s pace speaks for itself, and so does the devastation.
Debate about “truth” is largely around the justification for the war.
But as that’s one tough sell, debate has largely devolved into a disinformation/gaslighting campaign. Hence the trolls.
So I wouldn’t call it “both sides”. There’s an invader trying to justify an invasion with rampant disinformation, and a defender desperate to clear that disinformation, meaning they sometimes turn to the same tool.
One side the Russian side is the invader and the other side is Ukraine the occupied . Yes that’s two sides