In Ukraine’s Law on the Budget for 2025, the expenses for maintaining the Presidential Office slightly exceed 782 million hryvnias, which is approximately 40% less than the expenses for the Office in 2024.
Video, photo, and text posts are actively spreading online, claiming that in 2025 Ukraine has allocated «twice as much money for maintaining the Office of the President than in the previous year.» The publications, written in a very similar fashion, claim that the 2025 budget allegedly allocated 3.5 billion hryvnias for the maintenance of the president and his team.
«To better understand this astronomical figure, we divided it by 365 days in a year. And what we got is 9,589,041.1. This is almost ten million hryvnias per day,» identical publications claim.
In Ukraine’s Law «On the State Budget for 2025,» which entered into force on January 1, in Appendix 3 entitled «Distribution of Expenditures of Ukraine’s State Budget,» you can find a detailed plan for financing the state apparatus for the current year. The column «Service and organizational, information-analytical, material and technical support of the activities of the President and Ukraine’s Presidential Office» also indicates the amount of annual funding: 782,277.3 hryvnias. Of this amount, slightly less than 455 million hryvnias will go to salaries for employees of the Presidential Office, and the remaining 352 million hryvnias will cover utilities.
At the same time, in 2024, more than a billion hryvnias were spent from the state budget on servicing the President’s Office: 1,118,745.6 hryvnias, to be exact (see the appendix «Distribution of Expenditures of Ukraine’s State Budget»). Thus, in 2025, the costs of maintaining the Presidential Office not only did not increase, as they claim on social networks, but on the contrary, significantly decreased—by about 40% of last year’s amount.
It is worth noting separately the way this disinformation spreads on social networks. Posts with similar content in video, photo, and text formats are actively distributed mainly by faceless profiles with abstract names and photos, as well as news aggregator groups. These identical publications began to appear on social networks almost simultaneously and are spreading like wildfire.
Previously, StopFake refuted similar narratives, for example, that Volodymyr Zelensky Bought Sting’s Italian Villa for €75 Million or that Ukraine’s President Spends 100 times More on Himself than the Swiss President.
