{"id":135469,"date":"2025-04-23T20:09:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/135469\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"belarus-foreign-minister-hushes-up-russias-defense-spending-hike-in-his-speech-at-museum","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/135469\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus\u2019 foreign minister hushes up Russia\u2019s defense spending hike in his speech at museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>April 23, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Europe is arming itself &#8220;at an accelerated pace in volumes disproportionate even to the most obvious threats,&#8221; said Foreign Minister Maksim Ry\u017eanko\u016d in Minsk, according to the foreign ministry&#8217;s press office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was speaking the international conference \u201cThe Feat of the People Will Live on for Centuries\u201d at the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War History.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ry\u017eanko\u016d warned that \u201cthe weapons Europe is producing today will not simply be weapons of deterrence; they will be used in real life in the future, which could inevitably lead to a new armed conflict if European hotheads don&#8217;t cool off.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Europe is being armed &#8220;at the expense of funds intended for the most vulnerable segments of the population, for healthcare, education and the socioeconomic sector,&#8221; he claimed, but would not elaborate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 2021 and 2024, EU member states\u2019 total defense expenditure rose by more than 30 percent. In 2024, it reached an estimated \u20ac326 billion &#8211; about 1.9 percent of EU GDP, according to the EU Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EU is primarily concerned about threats from Russia, which has outperformed all EU countries combined in military spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia\u2019s military expenditure last year was forecast at 13.1 trillion rubles ($145.9 billion), or 6.7 percent of the country\u2019s gross domestic product \u2014 over 40 percent higher than the previous year, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies\u2019 latest Military Balance report released in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Europe\u2019s combined 2024 defense spending was $457 billion, more than 50 percent higher in nominal terms than it was in 2014, and 11.7 percent higher in real terms than the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if Russia&#8217;s spending is calculated in purchasing power parity terms \u2014 used in countries like Russia where domestic inputs are significantly cheaper than on the world market \u2014 the Kremlin&#8217;s military expenditure would come to $461.6 billion, the IISS said, as quoted by <em>Politico<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 23, Pozirk. Europe is arming itself &#8220;at an accelerated pace in volumes disproportionate even to the most obvious threats,&#8221; said Foreign Minister Maksim Ry\u017eanko\u016d in Minsk, according to the foreign ministry&#8217;s press office. He was speaking the international conference \u201cThe Feat of the People Will Live on for Centuries\u201d at the Belarusian State Museum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":135415,"template":"","rubric":[16,30],"class_list":["post-135469","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Belarus\u2019 foreign minister hushes up Russia\u2019s defense spending hike in his speech at museum | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"April 23, Pozirk. 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