Cash expenditures of Ukraine’s general fund state budget in October 2025 amounted to UAH 312.6 billion, which is UAH 33.6 billion, or 10.7%, more than in October 2024, according to the Ministry of Finance.
According to the Ministry of Finance, in January-October 2025, general fund expenditures reached UAH 3.16 trillion, exceeding the figure for the same period last year by UAH 507.2 billion, or 19.1%.
“General fund expenditures of the state budget for security and defense in January-October 2025 amounted to UAH 2 trillion, or 63.3% of all general fund expenditures. In particular, UAH 220.6 billion was spent in October,” the report said.
A month earlier, UAH 210.8 billion was allocated to security and defense, with total general fund expenditures of UAH 312.6 billion, indicating continued growth in monthly defense payments.
At the same time, for the sixth time in a row, the Ministry of Finance does not disclose more detailed items of military expenditures in its operational report – data on payments of monetary support to military personnel, purchases of military equipment, weapons, ammunition, and defense products, as well as separate transfers to the National Health Service of Ukraine (NHSU), the Pension Fund, and the Entrepreneurship Development Fund.
At the same time, according to Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko, speaking in the Verkhovna Rada on September 19, the monthly level of monetary support for the military in 2025 will increase significantly. “January – UAH 78.8 billion, February – UAH 86 billion, March – UAH 86 billion, April – UAH 91 billion, May – UAH 97 billion, and August also UAH 98 billion,” the minister said.
In October 2024, the Ministry of Finance reported the payment of UAH 86 billion in monetary support, which allows us to assess the scale of growth in military payments against the backdrop of the ongoing full-scale war.
