“From memory I don’t want to mislead. But in fact, I would like the figure to be more. There may be something, perhaps up to 500 people, somehow. Although there were a lot of applications,” Palis said.
According to him, there are many applications from potential contractors who have not reached the lower limit of the mobilization age established in Ukraine (25 years), but not all of them eventually sign a contract.
“We will definitely investigate the reasons that influenced the fact that the person agreed in words, but did not reach the signing. Actually, the parents influence somewhere. There are different reasons, we study these issues, analyze to draw a conclusion and somewhere where necessary, to finish something,” Palisa said.
Context
On February 7, in an interview with Reuters, commenting on the involvement of Ukrainians to mobilized age, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that this is not mobilization, but a special contract, which will have a lot of benefits and very high monetary support.
On February 11, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine published details of the contract for volunteers of 18-24 years. According to the project, the defense department guarantees the young volunteer the payment of 1 million UAH, of which 200 thousand UAH – when signing the contract, the remaining amounts will be paid in two parts during the year.
Also, the contractor will receive 120 thousand UAH of combat military monthly. In total, they assured the ministry, the military will be able to receive 2 million UAH per year.
On February 17, the speaker of the defense department Dmitry Lazutkin reported that through the reserve+application, more than 10 thousand appeals for the conclusion of the “Contract 18-24” were received.
