{"id":22254,"date":"2026-09-20T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/20\/russia-says-ukraine-faces-huge-budget-deficit\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:00:15","slug":"russia-says-ukraine-faces-huge-budget-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/20\/russia-says-ukraine-faces-huge-budget-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Says Ukraine Faces Huge Budget Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for Russia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry, has said Ukraine is facing an \u201castronomical\u201d budget deficit in response to comments by Volodymyr Zelensky about the country&#8217;s financial situation.<\/p>\n<p>According to Russian media, Zakharova used a statement by the Ukrainian president on Sunday as the basis for sharp criticism, claiming that Zelensky would send more people to their deaths to avoid accountability to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky had previously said at the Carpathian Initiative meeting that Ukraine was facing a very large budget deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Zakharova also wrote on her Telegram channel that by continuing the war, Zelensky would \u201cpave\u201d Ukraine with bodies so that he would no longer have any responsibility toward the people.<\/p>\n<p>Russia and Ukraine have been locked in a full-scale war since February 2022, a conflict that, in addition to the human toll, has placed heavy pressure on both sides&#8217; economies and budgets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says Ukraine is facing an astronomical budget deficit as Moscow&#8217;s foreign ministry criticises President Zelensky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}