Ukraine has a new plan to pay civilian volunteers of up to $ 2,400 per month to track and drop Russian drone threats.
This procedure, which allows civilians to use fishing rifles and cars to destroy the air targets, was approved on Wednesday by Ukrainian lawmakers, for all Taras Menchuk, representative of the Council of Ministers in Kiev Parliament.
Milchuk Book on a telegram The program aims to “strengthen the air defense” of Ukraine, and comes and that growing waves of Russian drones have escaped their cities.
The full draft of the proposal, published by the Oleksiy Gonchanko, shows that volunteers can get up to 100,000 hryvnias, or about $ 2,426, a month – depending on their contribution level.
Full payments will be a large amount for many Ukrainians. In comparison, government statistics said that the average monthly salary in Ukraine was 14,577 HRYVNIAS, or about 353 dollars, according to the numbers recorded by January 2022, before the month before the war.
Data from Work.ua,, The local work site that holds the salaries listed in jobs and biography publications explains that the average monthly wage offered in Ukraine has risen to 24241 hryvnias by June 10.
Volunteers ’money for air defense will come from the budgets of local governments, and the payment amounts are determined by leaders in the regional defense forces units stationed in the region.
The proposal added that these leaders aim to work with volunteers through the group’s leader who provides reports on employees and activities monthly.
The document said that volunteers can use supplies from Ukraine forces if necessary, but they also have “the right to use their own vehicles, other equipment, as well as personal fishing weapons, small weapons and other types of weapons and ammunition.”
Gunshernko said that approved vehicles include personal cars. This is important because a lot of anti -Baron defense in Ukraine relied on units of graduating at night to bring down Russian air vehicles that are not engraved with small arms installed on trucks or cars. Officials said the country has about 500 mobile units.
They are usually armed with a power of fire much more than a hunting rifle, though; The official anti -baron teams are often used machine guns such as M2 browning. On the other hand, drones frequently use rifles to shoot down drones from the first person in the battlefield.
Gonchaningo added that anyone who has not been fill out under Ukraine forces can participate in the volunteer.
This new project also aims to bring drones from volunteer units and current paramilitary units under the Ministry of Defense pavilion, although they will need to show a training certificate for approval.
The proposal added that the families of anyone who dies during the fighting in the volunteer air defense unit are also qualified to obtain one -time cash payments and the advantages of the pensions obtained by the relatives of the old warriors.
The new volunteer plan appears in Ukraine, where Russia has increased its drone attacks at night, which now includes hundreds of Iranian manufacturers who fired along with dozens of missiles in Ukrainian cities.
The approved procedure is scheduled for up to two years, or until the martial laws in Ukraine end.
