More than 100 billion hryvnia (More than 4, $ 6 billion at current official rate) per year is required on the maintenance of a professional army in Ukraine, said on the air "" the adviser of 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" - said Biryukov. according to him, today in the APU More than 50 thousand contract employees. 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," said Advisor to the Minister. He believes that at the present time it is technically impossible to provide the funding for a fully professional army in Ukraine. first Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk ordered the Minister of defence of Ukraine 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 the Ukrainian soldiers ". The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.