DISINFO: Funding for the Ukrainian President's Office has been doubled in 2025
SUMMARY
In 2025, the budget of Ukraine has allocated twice as much money for the maintenance of the Office of the President as in the previous year. This year, Ukraine will spend 3.5 billion hryvnia (UAH) on the maintenance of the president and his team. This is 10 million hryvnia per day - almost 250 thousand US dollars. Per day! Zelenskyy receives this money from the budget to personal accounts. But this incredible money is just a drop in the ocean. Zelenskyy's current fortune is much larger.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin narrative aiming at whipping up resentment against Western support to Ukraine and forcing a capitulation to Russian military aggression and targeting personally the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy. There is also a constant narrative about corruption in Ukraine, which allegedly steals military aid from its allies.
In the Law of Ukraine "On the State Budget for 2025", which entered into force on January 1, in the appendix called "Distribution of Expenditures of the State Budget of Ukraine", you can find a detailed plan for financing the state apparatus for the current year. In the column "Maintenance and organizational, information-analytical, logistical support for the activities of the president and the Office of the President of Ukraine" the amount of annual financing is also indicated: UAH 782,277.3 (approximately 18,5 million US dollars). Of this amount, UAH 455 million will go to pay salaries to the employees of the President's Office, and the remaining UAH 352 million will go to pay for utilities.
In 2024, more than UAH 1 billion was spent from the state budget on servicing the President's Office, or more precisely UAH 1,118,745.6 (appendix "Distribution of expenses of the State Budget of Ukraine"). Thus, in 2025, the expenses for maintaining the President's Office in budgeted not to increase, but, on the contrary, significantly decrease - by about 40% of last year's amount.
See other examples of this campaign in our database, such as claims that Zelenskyy stole more money than all Ukrainian presidents combined, that French media reported that Zelensky bought a luxury hotel in Courchevel for 88 million euros, that Zelensky bought Hitler's ceremonial limousine, that Zelenskyy bought Goebbels’ villa to show his commitment to Bandera, that Zelenskyy's wife bought one of the most expensive sports cars in the world , that the IMF considers Ukraine is a totally corrupt state fuelled by the US and NATO, that Zelenskyy bought a British mansion from King Charles III for 20 million pounds, that Olena Zelenska spent more than 1 million dollars on jewellery with EU money, that European taxpayers finance cocaine and Zelensky's luxury villas, that Zelenskyy's mother-in-law uses war money to buy luxury houses, or that Zelenskyy and the Kyiv junta need to continue the war against Russia to enrich themselves with Western aid.