With the support of the International Renaissance Foundation, the Fiscal Policy Research Center is implementing a large-scale project aimed at collecting detailed data on the cost of war. This was announced by Viktor Maziarchuk, Head of the Center, during an interview on Radio Kyiv – 98 FM.
“This is the large-scale Cost of War project, one component of which is monitoring recovery expenditures. We have already developed a tool that shows, down to the last kopeck, how funds from the Fund for the Elimination of the Consequences of Armed Aggression were spent,” he said.
According to him, the core of the project is an interactive recovery map (dashboard) with filtering tools that make it possible to track expenditures across different regions and sectors.
“In addition, for the Kyiv region we are preparing a major project that will show everything financed through the budget, regardless of whether it came from the state budget, local budgets, or international partners,” the expert emphasized.
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To implement this project, the Center uses data from the government platform Spending.gov.ua, which is updated daily by the Treasury.
“We extract payment data from all budgets. This can amount to up to 100,000 payments per day, or as many as 3 million per month,” Maziarchuk explained.
The tool also makes it possible to track spending on specific projects and facilities, including information about contractors.
“For example, a group of companies called Avtostrada recently won the tender for metro construction in Kyiv. We created a special video guide showing how to use our website and dashboard, including this company as an example,” Maziarchuk noted.
Viktor Maziarchuk also pointed out that the largest expenditures from the Fund for the Elimination of the Consequences of Armed Aggression last year were directed toward protecting critical infrastructure (UAH 13 billion) and building water pipelines (UAH 9 billion), following Russia’s destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. Funding was allocated to the regions most affected by the disaster — Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv.
The Head of the Center emphasized that the Cost of War project is designed to ensure spending transparency and help journalists, analysts, government representatives, and international partners gain access to complete and reliable information.
“This allows anyone — including government officials themselves — to present all expenditures and demonstrate their transparency,” Maziarchuk stressed.
He added that the team at the Fiscal Policy Research Center continues to improve the dashboard and sends numerous requests to verify data.