“Today, I instructed the Minister of Defence to increase the rate of additional payments to the servicemen on the first line – on the contact line – up to 6 thousand hryvnias. And to the servicemen on the second line – up to 2.4 thousand hryvnias”, – Petro Poroshenko informed during a working trip to Donetsk region.

“I am confident that we have to create financial motivation for the Ukrainian servicemen to be reliably protected. Today, we must spend money of Ukrainian taxpayers, of the Ukrainian state, first of all, to ensure reliable defence capacity”, Petro Poroshenko underscored.

The Head of State emphasized that today, he could not but come to the place where “the best of the best, the bravest and the strongest servicemen defend our country from the Russian aggression”.