US EditionCash bonus for a year fighting Russia? Inside Ukraine’s youth recruitment drive
- Ukraine launched a national drive in February 2025 recruiting young people for military service.
- This effort aims to make the military more professional and counter issues with past forced mobilisation.
- The campaign targets citizens aged 18 to 24 for one-year contracts to serve on the frontlines.
- The package offers a salary up to $2,900 monthly and a 1 million hryvnia bonus.
- Two months later, fewer than 500 individuals have signed contracts under the new program.
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A failing recruitment drive Fewer than 500 volunteers have enlisted with Ukraine’s military under a new program meant to recruit men too young for the draft
In February 2025, the Ukrainian authorities launched a campaign to recruit volunteers for contract military service. Ukrainians between the ages of 18 and 24 can enlist for a single year in exchange for a one-time payment of 1 million hryvnias (about $24,000), an interest-free housing loan, and a monthly salary of up to 120,000 hryvnias (about $2,900) — 5.5 times more than the average pay in Ukraine. Volunteers would also be exempt from Ukraine’…
Generous salary and interest-free home loan: What young people think about the recruitment offer in the Ukrainian army
Two months after Ukraine launched a nationwide campaign to recruit young people into the army, outnumbered by Russia after three years of war, fewer than 500 people have signed military contracts, according to Pavlo Palisa, the military adviser to the...
Money for a year of fighting against Russia? Reuters on the youth recruitment campaign in Ukraine
You will receive a generous salary, a significant bonus and an interest-free home loan. Condition? You will have to fight on the front lines of the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II, writes Reuters.
He was not looking for awards, but they were not late
With the beginning of a full-scale invasion of Russian troops, Vitaly joined the ranks of territorial defense, kept guard at a checkpoint around the city of Nova Odessa in the Nikolaev area. Before the beginning of active hostilities, he worked in a carpentry shop, was engaged in construction. He has a wife, two sons: the elder is 26 years old, he is a lieutenant of the National Guard of Ukraine; the younger is 11 — a schoolboy, but he also drea…
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