Military spending in Ukraine is funded through the country’s own tax revenues and operates independently from the flow of Western-donated weaponry. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies have placed such expenditures under close scrutiny, Balázs Jarábik, a former European Union diplomat and founder of the political risk consultancy Minority Report, told The New York Times (July 24, 2025). Over the course of more than three years of war, these investigations have led to criminal cases that have stirred public anger across Ukraine.