Christian Corps has registered three legislative initiatives with the Verkhovna Rada and is bringing them to public discussion

The Christian Corps has submitted three legislative initiatives to the Verkhovna Rada aimed at supporting veterans, birth rates, and attracting foreign volunteers.

The Association of Combat Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Christian Corps" officially registered three legislative initiatives with the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine: on tax breaks for enterprises that employ veterans, on financial support for births, and on creating a state system for international recruitment of foreign volunteers. According to the Apparatus of the Verkhovna Rada, the Corps’ appeals have been sent for consideration to the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk, as well as to the leaders of all parliamentary factions and groups.

The first initiative is intended to ease the employment of war veterans. The Corps proposes providing tax breaks to enterprises where veterans constitute at least 30% of the total number of employees. This would give businesses an economic incentive to hire people with combat experience—disciplined, capable of acting in the most challenging circumstances and responsible for results and for those around them.

The second initiative is aimed at overcoming the demographic crisis, which the Corps regards as a threat to national security. According to The World Factbook, Ukraine ranked last in the world for birth rate and first for mortality per thousand people in 2024 year. The bill provides for increasing child birth assistance to 300 thousand hryvnias for the first child, 600 thousand for the second, and 1,2 million hryvnias for the third and each subsequent child. Families of service members, including those of the deceased, missing in action, and prisoners of war, would receive an additional 1 million hryvnias.

The third initiative aims to create a unified state system for involving foreign volunteers. Obstacles to implementing the Government’s Action Program, which envisages 1000 contracts with foreigners each month, include a lack of staffing positions, lengthy checks, and the absence of targeted funding for recruitment. The bill introduces a single electronic registry through which a foreigner can submit an application remotely in their own language and choose a unit, as well as clear timelines for contract signing. Payment for candidate support (300 thousand hryvnias) could be earned by private Ukrainian companies for which international recruitment becomes a separate line of business with a special OKVED, as well as by military units that recruit foreigners independently.

"Each of our initiatives answers the challenge Ukraine faces today: how to give veterans decent work after the war, how to stop the demographic catastrophe, and how quickly to replenish units with people coming to defend Ukraine from other countries. We, the military, see these problems from the inside, so we consider it our duty to propose concrete solutions. For us as Christians, service is measured by deeds. Now the Parliament has the word, and we are ready to work with deputies from all factions so that these laws are enacted as soon as possible," said one of the founders of the Christian Corps, the commander of the Brotherhood Battalion of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Oleksii Seredyuk.

All three legislative initiatives are a response by the Christian Corps to the proposal of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. During the IX International Veterans Forum, the head of state proposed codifying veteran legislation and adopting a Veteran Code that would cover about 1,5 million veterans. In developing the appropriate legislative proposals, the President invited both the Cabinet of Ministers and the Verkhovna Rada, as well as the veterans themselves.

Now the Christian Corps announces the next stage of this work—bringing its legislative initiatives to public discussion. The Corps invites everyone to review the texts of the bills and the explanatory notes on the Corps’ website https://christiancorps.army/ and to express their thoughts, comments, and proposals.

"We deliberately bring our bills to public discussion. They concern millions of people—veterans, parents, the families of our defenders, foreign volunteers—and everyone has the right to speak up. We await the opinions of experts, lawyers, public organizations, and all those for whom the country’s future matters. The broader the discussion, the more perfect the laws that Parliament will ultimately consider," emphasized Dmitro Lin’ko, commander of the special unit "Stugna."

Christian Corps is an association of combat units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which declared Christian values the basis of its activity and worldview. It includes the Brotherhood Battalion (commander Oleksii Seredyuk), the Special Unit "Stugna" (commander Dmytro Lin’ko), Tactical Group "Revansch" (commander of the unit "Dolia"), the unit "Tradition and Order" (commander of the unit Kristijan Udarov), the active action unit "Rota Isusa Khrista" (commander of the unit "Braviy"), the Drone Brotherhood, the unit of the "Belarusian Volunteers" (commander of the unit "Yanki"), 6-th special purpose unit as part of the "Timur Special Unit" and other combat units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The main civilian partner of the Corps is the Charity Fund of Youth Initiative "Hope".

Legislative initiatives of the Christian Corps:

https://christiancorps.army/news/xrystyyanskyy-korpus-rozrobyv-zakonoproyekt-pro-mizhnarodnyy-rekrutynh

https://christiancorps.army/news/xrystyyanskyy-korpus-proponuye-zakonoproyekt-pro-pidtrymku-narodzhuvanosti

https://christiancorps.army/news/verxovna-rada-pryynyala-na-rozhlyad-zakonodavchi-napratsyuvannya-xrystyyanskoho-korpusu-shchodo-pratsevlashtuvannya-veteraniv

As a reminder, Valeriy Dubil, the charity fund "Hope," and the Christian Corps carried out the 458 humanitarian mission in the Kharkiv direction, delivering equipment to the troops, medical staff—reanimation devices, and to wounded defenders—electric scooters.