re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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but still not for sending 5billion a month to ukraine. frick that too.

It doesn't depend on me. It's your taxes going down the toilet

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Well, so are yours

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Russia plans to spend 900 billion rubles ($12.4 billion) over the next three years on financial support in the parts of eastern Ukraine that are held by Russia-backed separatists

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From Sept 2021

Or more recently

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Russia will invest more than two trillion rubles in the economy of the "#Donetsk People's Republic" within two years, reports Meduza.

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LINK

So with current FX rates that's roughly $37B USD.
As a percentage of Russia's GDP that's roughly 2.5% when Russia openly admits it's expecting over a 7% GDP contraction this year

US says it will support at $40B USD. That's roughly 0.2% of our GDP.

ETA: Fixed the link