KYIV, Ukraine — The Russian government wants to earmark 32.5% of its spending next year for defense, a record amount and up from a reported 28.3% this year, as Moscow seeks to prevail in the war in Ukraine.

The government’s draft budget released Monday proposes spending just over $145 billion on national defense. That is $32 billion more than was set aside for defense this year and was the previous record.

The Ukraine war is Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II and has drained the resources of both sides, with Ukraine getting billions of dollars in help from its Western allies.

Russia’s forces are bigger and better-equipped than Ukraine’s, and in recent months the Russian army has gradually been pushing Ukrainian troops backward in eastern areas.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the United States last week in pursuit of continuing financial and military support as the war approaches its three-year milestone in February.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is also looking how to sustain his war effort because military spending has placed a huge strain on the Russian economy.

This month, Russia’s central bank raised its key interest rate by a full percentage point to 19% to combat high inflation.

It held out the prospect of more rate increases to return inflation from the current 9.1% to the bank’s target of 4% in 2025.

According to the draft budget, spending on defense should decline in 2026. The proposed budget could still change as it goes through three readings in the lower parliament house and then goes to the upper house before Putin signs it into law.

Also, Putin signed a call-up order Monday for 133,000 conscripts in the autumn military draft, which is a routine number for seasonal conscription campaigns.

In September, he ordered the country’s military to increase Russia’s number of troops by 180,000 to a total of 1.5 million. Overall military personnel would be about 2.4 million.

Overnight, Russia fired missiles and drones at 11 regions of Ukraine, the Ukrainian air force said Monday, in a 33rd consecutive night of aerial attacks behind the front line. It set a new monthly record of drone barrages.

It was the first time Russians launched more than 1,000 Shahed drones in a month. It was also the first time the Iranian-made drones were used in every aerial attack on each day of the month.

In Kyiv, multiple explosions and machine gun fire could be heard throughout the night as the Ukraine capital’s air defenses fought off a drone attack for five hours. No casualties were reported in Kyiv or elsewhere.

Russia has increasingly deployed Shahed drones, rather than more expensive missiles.