INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia has reallocated healthcare spending from dozens of its regions to build and repair hospitals in the occupied territories of eastern
and Zaporizhzhia regions, which Moscow annexed last year, received subsidies worth 1.02 billion rubles ($10.5 million) for building or
set to spend 88.8 billion rubles ($910 million) in 2023 and 550 billion rubles ($5.7 billion) for 2023-25.In January, President Vladimir
Putin ordered the government to redistribute budget transfers among regions based on their ability to absorb the allocated funds, Vedomosti
authorities torecruit doctors and nurses to work in the occupied regions of Ukraine, according to an internal document published in
occupied by its forces and devastated by the war.
