Ukrinform: Number of Ukrainian military servicemen to increase by 100,000
President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed off a decree on Ukraine's transition toward a professional Army, increasing the number of servicemen by 100,000 over the next three years.
The document was signed as the head of state addressed the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s Parliament, at the opening of the seventh session, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
"The Decree of the President of Ukraine on strengthening the nation’s defense capabilities and the attractiveness of military service has been developed. The decree provides for an increase in the financial security for all military personnel to the level of no less than three minimum wages. It’s about Ukraine's transition to the basics of a professional Army. A system of officers’ career development has been established, while the number of military servicemen with the Armed Forces will be raised by 100,000,” the president said in his address.
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Uncle Sam will pay for it. Warhawks like Nuland will sell an inflated "Ukrainian" military to congress in lieu of NATO membership, as a less provocative alternative to directly stationing NATO troops on the Russia/Ukraine border.
ReplyDeleteThe current round of talks will deadlock and Ukraine will become the new korean peninsula with the western powers funding the official integration of the paramilitaries and militias into the armed forces in perpetuity.
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ReplyDeleteUkraine does not have the reach to get that many people in Donbas. Maybe a few, but not that many, Russia on the other hand has been supplying mercenaries to Donbas.
Russian military operate in Donbas. The Ukrainian military does not operate in Russia.
"Russia has named a border patrol boat after Russian warlord Arsen Pavlov in the latest move to glorify a mercenary who boasted of committing war crimes in Donbas. The name of a Russian who arrived in Ukraine to kill Ukrainians and violate Ukraine’s territorial integrity will thus adorn a boat on the Don River patrolling foreign boats crossing Russia’s border."