According to data from open sources, the munitions used have cost the Russians over $18 billion (more than 1.8 trillion rubles), noted the CPD.
This amount significantly exceeds the budgets of several Russian regions, such as Sverdlovsk Oblast, the Republic of Tatarstan, and Krasnoyarsk and Krasnodar Krais, the center's analysts specified.
"This money could have been allocated for regional development, the construction of schools, hospitals, and infrastructure. However, the priorities of the Russian regime are terror and destruction, leaving its own regions in poverty," the statement reads.