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🪖📊 Koretskyi Program: The Cabinet promised 100% staffing of the Defense Forces — but the metric hides a variable denominator
🎯👥 Minister of Defense Yevhenii Khmara received in the Cabinet Program 34 commitments; among the most prominent is to bring the staffing of the Defense Forces to 100% in 2027. On paper, this is one of the strictest and easiest-to-check KPIs of the entire government.
🔍📐 But the full wording substantially changes the picture: 100% must be calculated “in accordance with the refined and resource-justified need.” The program does not record an absolute personnel requirement; at the same time it contains no quantitative indicators regarding demobilization, terms of service, or the level of payments to servicemembers. In other words, the politically effective “100%” depends not only on how many people are in the ranks, but also on whatever total strength the government itself determines to be necessary.
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