Mobilisation will cost Ukraine additional US$13 billion – Zelenskyy
Pravda Ukraine
Mobilisation of an additional 450-500,000 people will cost Ukraine UAH 500 billion (US$13.4 billion).
Source: This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the final press conference.
Details: He said that at one of the previous meetings, the military proposed to mobilise an additional 450-500,000 people, but this issue is currently being finalised.
Zelenskyy called the figure “very serious”, saying he told the Staff that he needed more arguments to support “this direction” because “it is a matter of people, justice, defence capability and finances.” He is also raising the issue of demobilising a part of the army that has been defending Ukraine since the beginning of the great war.
Quote: “Mobilisation in this format will cost Ukraine an additional 500 billion hryvnias. Therefore, as the President of Ukraine and a person who gives a lot of his time to find financial support for Ukraine, I would like to hear from the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance where (we get) the money from,” he concluded.
Reminder: At one of the most recent meetings of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief’s Headquarters, Ukrainian military officials offered to mobilise an extra 450–500,000 people; however, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that this issue is being worked on.
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