Poroshenko announced plans to increase the number of contract servicemen in the armed forces

The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that Kyiv will increase the number of military officers serving under contract.
"We have, without doubt, we will increase the contract component, and appropriate assignments already given me and the leadership of the defense Ministry, and the leadership of the General staff. I think because it is a strategic direction for the creation of the Ukrainian troops", - has said Poroshenko, whose words are in the message on the Internet office of the presidential administration of Ukraine.
according to his statement, in the 1-St of all, the story is about departments who will serve in high-risk areas near the border and would require special technical knowledge, expensive training. Along with this, Poroshenko said that " one way or another, the call will be saved ". August 4, Advisor to the Minister of defense Yury Biryukov said that the content of a professional army in Ukraine need more than 100 billion USD per year (4, 6 billion dollars at current official rate)." Well there is over 100 billion a year need to have a professional army, where the proportion of contract servicemen is saved 60/40 ", ? Biryukov reported. According to him, currently in the APU more than 50 thousand Contract employees. As noted by Biryukov, a volunteer army requires a completely different material components. Also on the military contract ought to furnish the apartments. According to his vision, currently technically impossible to provide the funding for a fully professional army in Ukraine. On July 31, 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 on a contract basis, 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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