INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia collected 118 billion rubles ($1.2 billion) in taxes from occupied Ukrainian territories in January-September 2024, surpassing tax
Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk regions in September 2022 following widely disputed referendums despite not fully controlling any
Zaporizhzhia and Kherson collected 14.9 billion rubles and 7.9 rubles in taxes each.The 22% year-on-year increase in tax revenues reflects
Russia still plans to continue pouring subsidies into the annexed regions after it was projected to spend more than 350 billion rubles ($3.6
Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia from 2025-2027.Most of this funding, 104.5 billion rubles, will go to the construction and repair
of residential buildings, followed by 80 billion rubles on infrastructure repair and maintenance, according to RBC
Another 40 billion rubles will be spent on restoring municipal infrastructure and 30 billion rubles on repairing administrative
