Military enlistment offices continue to actively carry out advocacy work with a view to promoting military service under the contract in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the press service of HOGA reports. Thus, since the beginning of 2018, about 1,800 residents of Kharkiv region voluntarily joined the ranks of contract soldiers.. "For the third consecutive year, the Kharkiv region is in the top three among the regions of Ukraine for the selection of professional military," said the military commissar of the Kharkiv regional military commissariat, Colonel Yuri Kalgushkin.. - In October-November, there is a definite positive trend in increasing the number of people willing to serve in the army. This was facilitated by the completion of seasonal work and the dissemination of information about the increase in the military by a third of the monetary allowance from January 2019. I also notice that gradually more and more young people at the age of 18-22 choose military life ".

According to the officer, of all current contract recruits, more than 700, or 40%, came to the military registration and enlistment offices, having the status of a combatant. And among the newcomers to military service were 130 girls.. "The priority direction of the draft work was and remains to be the recruitment of military units of the Landing Assault and Marine Corps units, as well as combat units of the Ground Forces. So, more than 200 Kharkiv citizens became paratroopers in 2018. We sent the greatest number of our countrymen to the 25th separate airborne and 81st airborne brigades, "explained Yuri Kalgushkin.