On Wednesday, the Verkhovna Rada adopted at the final reading bill No. 11417 on increasing the 2024 state budget by UAH 500 billion for military needs, MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak (the Holos faction) reported.

"Affirmative votes - 298. Thus, this year's expenditures amount to a record of UAH 3.73 trillion for Ukraine," he wrote on the Telegram channel.