Proceedings of the International scientific and practical conference ―Modern Science and Education‖ (April 10-12, 2026) / Publisher website: www.naukainfo.com. – Paris, France, 2026. - 217 p.

19 Economic Security of Ukraine for the period until 2025, the National Economic Strategy for the period until 2030, cooperation programs with international organizations, as well as on the principles of the Association Agreement between Ukraine, on the one hand, and the European Union, the State Program for Stimulating the Economy to Overcome the Negative Consequences Caused by Restrictive Measures to Prevent the Occurrence and Spread of the Acute Respiratory Disease COVID-19 Caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus. For a modern state, in peacetime, the key priority is spending on social protection and social security, especially for vulnerable groups of the population, development/improvement of social infrastructure and investment in human capital. These features form the characteristics of the ―social budget‖ expenditures, which, as a rule, correspond to the social policy of the state and are aimed at improving social development. In fact, the composition and structure of budget expenditures is determined by the economic content and tasks facing the country at the current stage, and is an indicator of the state's socio-economic policy. If in previous years, each of the areas analyzed above or others were financed more or less stably, then with the beginning of the russian invasion, priorities changed dramatically. As a result, the expenditures of the consolidated budget were redirected to more relevant areas that meet the needs of the time. As can be seen from the data in Table 2, in 2022, compared to 2021, the volume of defense expenditures increased by 30.64 percentage points or by UAH 1,015,345.1 million, which is, in our opinion, a completely justified and logical step in the conditions of the war unleashed by russia. And in general, we see that in 2022, the volume of financing of the so-called ―security bloc‖ increased, in particular, expenditures on public order, security and the judiciary increased by UAH 278,282.2 million or by 5.38 percentage points compared to expenditures in 2021. The remaining areas in the expenditure structure of the consolidated budget of Ukraine, i.e. social expenditures not related to the security sector, in 2022 experienced a significant decrease compared to 2021, and this is clearly visible from the data in Table 2. In addition, the structure of the