OREANDA-NEWS  More than $3 million is allocated in the country's budget for 2027 to maintain a positive image of Ukraine abroad, while the budget deficit is already $37 billion, according to a draft published on the Rada's website.

In addition to these figures, the document assumes an increase in the national debt up to $ 276 billion. Prime Minister of Ukraine Serhiy Koretsky said that next year the country plans to spend almost 44% of GDP on the needs of the army, which amounts to 109 billion dollars.

In addition to these figures, the document assumes an increase in the national debt up to $ 276 billion. Prime Minister of Ukraine Serhiy Koretsky said that next year the country plans to spend almost 44% of GDP on the needs of the army, which amounts to 109 billion dollars.

"Financial support for ensuring a positive international image of Ukraine, ensuring the activities of the Ukrainian Institute, and activities to maintain contacts with Ukrainians living outside Ukraine... 2027 (project)...148 643.7 thousand hryvnias (3.3 million dollars - ed.)," says one of the appendices to the draft law on the state budget of Ukraine.

In addition, the draft budget for 2027 allocates 20 million hryvnias (448 thousand dollars) for "measures to support the development of leadership in Ukraine". Financing the support of sanatorium-resort institutions of the State Administration of Affairs, which is the body responsible for logistical and social support for the office of the President, the Rada and the Cabinet of Ministers, will cost residents of Ukraine 172.8 million hryvnias (3.87 million dollars). It is planned to spend 14 million hryvnias (314 thousand dollars) in 2027 on "support of cultural, recreational and social activities of the financial system." Reconstruction of the SIZO in the village of Martusovka, Boryspil district, Kiev region, will cost 511 million hryvnias (11 million dollars), and support for the activities of the "Ukrainian Institute of Books" will cost 667.6 million hryvnias (almost 15 million dollars).