What’s changing in Ukraine’s 2026 state budget?
18 June 2026
The Centre for Economic Strategy (CES) invites you to join the June review of the Ukrainian economy with a special topic: “What’s changing in Ukraine’s 2026 state budget?”.
The Verkhovna Rada has supported amendments to the 2026 state budget, which provide for an increase in security and defence spending by UAH 1.56 trillion (approximately $35 billion). This was made possible by a new financial support programme from the European Union — the Ukraine Support Loan (USL).
One of the key issues is military salaries. When the budget was adopted, it was already apparent that there might be a shortfall in funding for this item. Although international aid cannot be directly allocated to paying military personnel, it frees domestic resources for these needs.
We will discuss this in more detail on 18 June at 17:00 (Kyiv time) on Zoom. In addition, as usual, we will review the changes in the Ukrainian economy over the past month.
Our regular monthly reports are available on our website, and data visualisations are available in the War Economy Tracker.
Programme:
17:00 – 17:05 Introductory remarks by the moderator.
17:05 – 17:20 Presentation of the June economic review, CES team.
17:20 – 17:30 Presentation of the special topic, Oleksandra Myronenko, CES Economist.
17:30 – 18:30 Expert discussion and Q&A:
- Danylo Hetmantsev, Chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy;
- Yulia Morii, Head of the Legal Hundred NGO;
- Roman Yermolychev, First Deputy Minister of Finance of Ukraine.
Moderator: Hlib Vyshlinsky, CES Executive Director.
The event will be held in Ukrainian with simultaneous translation into English.
This event has been funded by the UK International Development from the UK government; however, the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the UK government’s official policies.
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