“The president has already brought defense spending to a reasonable amount,” Kudrin wrote on his Twitter.

I read the media and was surprised. The president has already brought defense spending to a reasonable amount. I said that further reduction is not required to solve defense tasks. Now the goal is efficiency. Https: //t.co/9FuLT1G5SGpic.twitter.com/W8AP2Dd5Ro

- Alexey Kudrin (@Aleksei_Kudrin) September 22, 2019

He noted that he had already said that further cost reductions were not required.

“Now the goal is efficiency,” Kudrin added.

Earlier, Sergei Shoigu commented on the opinion of some politicians about the level of expenditures not defense.