KIEV In this handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on November 19, 2024, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) addresses members of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev. Ukrainian lawmakers have voted to approve the government's 2025 budget , in which more than $50 billion, or 60 percent of all expenditure, is allocated to defense and security. Kiev has been forced to massively ramp up military spending as it fights against Russia's better-resourced