Russia Has Enough Resources to Wage War Through 2028, Ukraine's Military Intelligence Says
Ukraine says Russia has enough resources to keep fighting through 2028 as it readies mass drone, missile and winter strikes on energy facilities.
- On September 7, Defense Intelligence Chief Oleh Ivashchenko warned that Russia retains sufficient resources to sustain the war through 2027 and 2028, calling for intensified Ukrainian strikes, sanctions, and export restrictions.
- Moscow's military spending reached a record 10.687 trillion rubles in the first half of 2026, creating an $82 billion federal budget deficit that forced civilian spending cuts and a 15% staff reduction across government agencies.
- Russia is introducing autonomous Banderol and Dan-T loitering munitions, while a Chinese state-owned firm supplied 46 metric tons of carbon-fiber chemicals to a sanctioned Russian subsidiary by mislabeling materials as nylon and polyester.
- Ukrainian strikes on energy infrastructure are "very critical" to degrading Russia's military-industrial complex, according to Ivashchenko, forcing Moscow to halt production, repair facilities, and redeploy air defense systems.
- Worsening economic conditions including labor shortages and banking instability are weakening Russia compared to the invasion's start, with Ivashchenko noting that more than 60% of Russians now oppose the war.
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After 21 packages of European sanctions, the Russian economy has not yet collapsed, as predicted by some since the beginning of the conflict. And days ahead to support the war in Ukraine seems to have many more. Not the apparatuses of Moscow say, but the head of Ukrainian military intelligence (Hur), Oleh Ivashchenko, in an interview with Ukrinform: "The main [...] The article Head of Ukrainian intelligence: "Russia has resources to continue the…
Ukrainian GUR Chief Ivashchenko: Russia has resources for war until 2027-2028
Russia retains industrial and mobilization capacity to sustain hostilities through 2027-2028, despite economic weakness. Ukrainian intelligence assesses the threat from Belarus as low, with no signs of Minsk entering the war directly, though Russian...
The Kremlin has enough resources to wage war for another two years, Oleh Ivashchenko, the head of Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR), told the Ukrinform website on Monday.
Numbers result from an analysis of data from the Russian Ministry of Finance by Janis Kluge, researcher at the German Institute for International Affairs and Security (SWP), and released by 'Kyiv Post'
Russia's spending on the war in Ukraine reached a new record in the first half of 2026. Moscow allocated 10,687 trillion rubles for war financing, according to an analysis based on data from the Russian Ministry of Finance.
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