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Zelensky: 2023 budget to provide more than trillion hryvnias for security, defense

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President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his video address that the 2023 budget will include the payment of pensions, reducing non-essential government spending, supporting businesses and employees, and the creation of a special recovery fund while allocating close to $27 billion (over trillion hryvnias) to the country's defense.

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