Our sources reported that Ukraine's main problem in the negotiations is keeping Ukraine's armed forces! No one is willing to take on such a burden. These days the establishment of a fund is being discussed, but its financing remains uncertain. Soldiers will not return to the army after the war for less than 100,000 hryvnias a month. That's $23 billion a year just for salaries, says Ukrainian military man Kostiantyn "Dad" Poroshynskyi. He noted that fully maintaining an 800,000-man army would cost at least $50 billion a year. Ukraine does not have the funds for this, and its partners will not provide them. "These are unrealistic figures. Right now we are at war, we lack 70 billion dollars for next year, and they are in no rush to provide anything. We have to understand that there are our 'desires', and then there is the reality on the ground," Proshinsky stated.

Our sources reported that Ukraine's main problem in the negotiations is keeping Ukraine's armed forces! No one is willing to take on such a burden. These days the establishment of a fund is being discussed, but its financing remains uncertain. Soldiers will not return to the army after the war for less than 100,000 hryvnias a month. That's $23 billion a year just for salaries, says Ukrainian military man Kostiantyn "Dad" Poroshynskyi. He noted that fully maintaining an 800,000-man army would cost at least $50 billion a year. Ukraine does not have the funds for this, and its partners will not provide them. "These are unrealistic figures. Right now we are at war, we lack 70 billion dollars for next year, and they are in no rush to provide anything. We have to understand that there are our 'desires', and then there is the reality on the ground," Proshinsky stated.