Russland gibt die Hälfte seines Staatshaushalts für Militär aus

***The Telegraph reports:***

Russia spent about half of its state budget on its military last year, according to an analysis by Germany’s foreign intelligence agency.

The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) also found that Russia’s real defence spending was 66 per cent higher than officially declared, with expenditure rising sharply every year since the country’s [full-scale invasion of Ukraine](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/russia-ukraine-war/) in 2022.

According to the analysis, the Kremlin’s true military outlay was approximately €250bn in 2025, equivalent to roughly half of total state spending and about 10 per cent of the country’s GDP. 

At the start of the war, military expenditure accounted for about 6 per cent of GDP.

The BND said the funds were being used not only to sustain the war in Ukraine but also to expand military capabilities beyond the battlefield, particularly along [Russia](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/russia/)’s borders with eastern Nato countries. 

Western officials, including Mark Rutte, Nato’s secretary-general, have warned that Russia [could attack one of the alliance’s members](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/09/russia-ukraine-zelensky-putin-nato-war-latest-news/) within two to five years.

**Full story:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/04/russia-spent-half-its-state-budget-on-military-in-2025/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_budget-on-military-in-2025/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/04/russia-spent-half-its-state-budget-on-military-in-2025/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_budget-on-military-in-2025/)

And they ain’t takin Ukraine.
Must suck to be a Ruzzian.

Thats going to end well