On the maintenance of a professional army in Ukraine need more than 100 billion hryvnia (more than 4, $ 6 billion at current official rate), said Advisor to the Minister of defense Yury Biryukov.
"Well, there is over a 100 billion a year need to have a professional army, where the proportion of contract servicemen is saved 60/40 ", ? Biryukov said on air " Gromadsky TV ". According to him, currently in the APU more than 50 thousand Contract employees, reports RIA " Novosti ".
As explained Biryukov, a volunteer army requires a completely different material components. Also on the military contract ought to furnish the apartments." last year the Ministry of defence has allocated one billion hryvnia for the purchase of apartments, and If this is so confused all the mechanics of purchasing apartments, on the fact that the money is in the account, and to buy an apartment we can't", - has told the adviser of the Minister. He believes that at the present time it is technically impossible to provide the funding for a fully professional army in Ukraine. Last week, the head of Ukrainian government Arseniy Yatsenyuk ordered the Minister of defense Stepan Poltorak " to start the calculations of transition of Ukraine on the classic professional army and modeling of a new training system and the new system for mobilization of soldiers." On 30 July the head of the MIA of Ukraine Arsen Avakov assured that the Ukrainian army should be " at the present time and immediately translate to a contract, and promised to refer the matter to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. Remember, October 14, 2013, signed the decree of the President of Ukraine, According to which from 1 January 2014, the call for military service in armed forces of the country was suspended, a further acquisition was obliged to be done only on a contract basis. However, on may 1, 2014 the call was reconstructed. 22 July 2015, it was announced that exploration DNR intercepted documents evidencing training in Ukraine unplanned, seventh wave of mobilization. In June Ukraine began the sixth wave of mobilization. Only the Ukrainian authorities intend in 2015 to call for service in the army of 100-150 thousand People. March 25, the head Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree on increasing the size of the army up to 250 thousand People. The head of the defense Ministry of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak has not excluded if necessary the seventh wave of mobilization.

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