{"id":151053,"date":"2026-02-03T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/?post_type=news&#038;p=151053"},"modified":"2026-02-01T12:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T10:35:43","slug":"vijskovyj-byudzhet-rf-trishhyt-na-tli-myrnyh-peremov","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/news\/novosti\/vijskovyj-byudzhet-rf-trishhyt-na-tli-myrnyh-peremov\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Military Budget Is \u201cCracking\u201d Amid Peace Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"61\" data-end=\"327\">Russia is facing serious financial difficulties in funding its war against Ukraine. Against the backdrop of negotiations, this narrows the Kremlin\u2019s ability to prolong the war without economic consequences, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"329\" data-end=\"446\">The Russian government is preparing for the budget deficit to exceed planned levels if military spending rises again.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"448\" data-end=\"576\">Moscow is currently seeking up to 1.2 trillion rubles in additional revenue to keep the deficit within the targeted 1.6% of GDP.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"578\" data-end=\"729\">The price of Russia\u2019s Urals crude remains below the level assumed in the budget, while the ruble exchange rate is significantly stronger than forecast.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"731\" data-end=\"870\">Under these conditions, oil and gas revenues could fall more than two trillion rubles short of expectations, further worsening the deficit.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"872\" data-end=\"1081\">Last year, the Kremlin was forced to revise its budget parameters. It has been trying to cover the shortfall through record volumes of domestic borrowing, but such borrowing is becoming increasingly expensive.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1083\" data-end=\"1272\">Despite mounting economic pressure, the Kremlin has shown no willingness to scale back its territorial demands in talks over Ukraine and continues to insist on the \u201ctransfer\u201d of the Donbas.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1274\" data-end=\"1561\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Sources note that the combination of budget constraints, sanctions, and uncertain energy revenue prospects is gradually weakening Russia\u2019s position and narrowing Russian dictator Vladimir Putin\u2019s \u201cwindow of opportunity\u201d to continue the war without serious domestic economic consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":151054,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-151053","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/151053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=151053"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=151053"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=151053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}