Russia spends around €340 billion on the war, while Ukraine spends €140 billion. Therefore, it is necessary to make the russian war painful for russia itself, so that russian society feels it and this pushes vladimir putin toward negotiations. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this on August 24.
“If we want to bring this war back to russia and make it painful for them, so that their society feels it and puts pressure on putin, I think this is one of the tools to push putin toward negotiations. Therefore, we need the same competitive number (of drones — ed.), not money, because they have twice as much money today. They spend even more — around €340 billion on the war”, - Zelensky said at a press conference following the “Coalition of the Willing” summit in Kyiv.
The president added that Ukraine spends €140 billion on the war, so it is necessary to be competitive in terms of the number of long-range strikes.