The Russian government has written off budget debts totaling 37.5 billion rubles ($525 million) for six additional regions, a move that highlights growing financial strain across the country's regions.
According to Ukrinform, the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (FISU) reported this.
The debt relief applies to the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Republic of Tatarstan, the Khabarovsk territory, as well as the Vladimir, Kurgan and Omsk regions.
According to the agency, Russia's Finance Ministry forecasts that the combined regional budget deficit will reach 1.9 trillion rubles ($26.6 billion) in 2026. More than 20 federal subjects have already been officially classified as financially troubled.
The main causes include declining tax revenues, rising social spending and the growing burden of war-related expenses increasingly shifted from the federal government to regional authorities.
