A million per contract with the Armed Forces: Will big money help mobilize young people
On February 10, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky spoke about the privileges received by the person by signing the annual contract. According to Zelensky, a contract with the Armed Forces for youth will provide for certain benefits, namely: "It seems to me that a very good offer for people who want to go for one year on a contract. They can continue if they want, but this is a year contract" , - said Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
He stressed that there are many important details - what are the conditions where to go, what a team, but officially details of the Armed Forces contract for young people will be published in the coming days. The People's Deputy from "European Solidarity" Alexei Goncharenko informed Focus that on Tuesday, February 11, the Cabinet had to consider a resolution from the Ministry of Defense on a contract with the Armed Forces for Youth. "But there are no details.
I have not seen the text of the ruling. He is convinced that the youth who wants to go into the army, and who will not continue to study or work. Former SBU employee, military expert Ivan Stupak noted in a conversation with focus that you can promise anything. He believes that if from the beginning they had done what they promised to the Ukrainian military, then the problems with mobilization would be less.
"Money is promised, but they do not pay, people die at the front, and on papers count somewhere in Lviv. Therefore, she is not foreseen, and her relatives run and knock out that money. People understand that it is not needed, it is better to wait for this period time, "Stupak said. He stressed that the question is whether the promise was fulfilled.
Asked whether a contract with the Armed Forces for young people with the conditions of service of those who are already in the army, Stupak replied that certain payments were also planned for current servicemen, but he does not know the details. The expert also believes that there may be an insult to certain military, but on the other hand, there will be a great understanding that people need to be involved, and the state creates such initiatives.
In addition, Ivan Stupak is convinced that after a year of service, a contract with the Armed Forces for youth will be automatically extended. The Ukrainian serviceman Danilo Yakovlev told Focus that the AFA Contract for Youth is incomprehensible to him because it looks "as unfairly as possible". So one 24-year-old man will sign a contract and receive "significant" benefits, while the 25-year-old will go to the army and have nothing like that.
In addition, there are many Ukrainians who voluntarily signed a contract with the army in 19-20 years, who also receive nothing, although they have been in the army for a long time, he said. "The issue of purely fairness is for those who are already serving. Because it will look as populist and ugly about them as possible," the military is convinced.
He emphasized that the issue is not only in money, because the state can offer many preferences or social packages in force, where they do not need a lot of money, but they are significant for people. "We need to fully process the benefit system. You can get a shred of land by law, take a queue to get an apartment, etc. It is funny, everyone understands and know that the apartments are only special, the land ended in 2015. They work, "Yakovlev said.
In his opinion, it is necessary to create a general system of benefits and incentives for everyone. For example, if a person signs a contract voluntarily - receives benefits, and if a person is 18 to 25 years old, then he or she must have additional benefits. Danilo Yakovlev believes that now the state needs to think not of those who can come to the army, but about those who are already in the army. "We want new people into the army, but we do not want to keep those who have long been in the army.
It is the most wrong and ugly. Or give the opportunity to be released - one mobilized, one demobilized. Then there will be some justice. And so it turns out that one is one Many, and others, " - summed up the fighter. The commander of the platoon 24 OSHB "Aydar" Stanislav Bunyatov noted that young people are studying quickly, discipline and finds motivation where he sees the result of his brothers.
"Against the background of creating a new project" Drone Line ", SBS and many new Bubpak on brigades, it becomes clear that young personnel needed . . . " A million for a contract "(if it is) announced not just so, it is directed to recruit people in the above units It is clear that 99% of these young people want to serve in safer places, "Stanislav Bunyatov said. He maintains a contract with the Armed Forces for youth, the fighter hopes that this initiative will give his result.
In turn, the Lieutenant of the Armed Forces with Alex Call sign, it is difficult to assess the potential efficiency or feasibility of a contract for 18-24 years. "I and my peers signed a contract when they gave 25-30k UAH for it, someone is at all since the ATO time and received nothing for the signed first contract. The point is that not money was not the money was the main motivation to go into the army, "the officer wrote.
According to him, as a bonus payment for the Armed Forces for young people will not be superfluous. However, he believes that first of all, people need to create "the most favorable conditions for service, give" green light "and maximize the development of top units, make such units more.
" "People do not go not that they pay little, but because the hrs*new stereotypes and narratives in them about the army, and under such conditions, no money will be lured, it is necessary to think and act globally," - summed up the lieutenant. We will remind, on February 11 at Bloomberg reported that the Ukrainian government will have to solve the problem of lack of people in the army and reduce the conscript age to support the event.