Finance Minister Victoria Belous announced this during a government meeting, noting that the proposals included measures to increase state budget revenues, changing the base amount used to calculate salaries in the public sector, and increasing the amount of exceptional one-time payments. Amendments requiring additional financial resources were, in most cases, introduced either without specifying or identifying a source of funding, or based on inappropriate sources — such as cuts to the budgets of certain government agencies or increases in revenue without substantiated calculations, etc. As a result, the Cabinet of Ministers did not agree to increase budget expenditures and approved only 8 amendments in full, one in part, and rejected 13. The government supported, in particular, some reallocation of funds within the budgets of individual ministries. At the same time, the new key indicators for revenue, expenditures, and the budget deficit—which had been approved earlier during the first reading—remained unchanged. // 16.09.2026 — InfoMarket.