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The Christian Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine officially registered in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine three legislative initiatives: on tax incentives for enterprises that employ veterans, on financial support for births, and on creating a state system for international recruitment of foreign volunteers. As reported by the Apparatus of the Verkhovna Rada, the Corps’s appeals have been forwarded 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 aims to ease veterans’ employment. The Corps proposes granting tax incentives to enterprises where veterans make up 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 calls a threat to national security. According to The World Factbook (CIA World Factbook), in 2024 year Ukraine occupied last place in the world for birth rate and first place for mortality per thousand people. The bill provides for increasing child birth grants 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 military personnel, including deceased, missing, and captured servicemen, will additionally receive 1 million hryvnias.
The third initiative aims to create a unified state system for attracting foreign volunteers. Hurdles to implementing the Government’s Action Program, which envisions 1000 contracts with foreigners each month, include staff shortages, lengthy verifications, and lack of targeted funding for recruitment. The bill establishes a single electronic registry through which a foreigner can submit an application remotely in their own language and select a unit, as well as clear contract-Conclusion timelines. Payments for candidate support (300 thousand hryvnias) can be earned by private Ukrainian companies for whom international recruitment becomes a separate line of activity with a special FEDE code, and also by military units that recruit foreigners independently.
"Each of our initiatives responds to the challenge Ukraine faces today: how to provide veterans with dignified work after the war, how to stop the demographic catastrophe, and how to rapidly replenish units with people who come to defend Ukraine from other countries. We, the military, see these problems from inside, so we consider it our duty to offer concrete solutions. For us as Christians, service is measured by deeds. Now the word is with the Parliament, and we are ready to work with deputies from all factions so that these laws work as quickly as possible," said one of the founders of the Christian Corps, commander of the Brotherhood Battalion of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Oleksii Serediuk.
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 veterans’ legislation and adopting a Veterans Code that would cover about 1,5 million veterans. In developing the relevant 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 anyone interested to review the texts of the bills and explanatory notes on the Corps’s 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. We await the opinions of experts, lawyers, public organizations, and all who care about the country’s future. The broader the discussion, the more perfect the laws that the Parliament will ultimately consider will be," emphasized Dmitro Linko, commander of the special unit "Stugna".
The Christian Corps is a union of combat units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which proclaimed Christian values as the foundation of its activity and worldview. It includes the Brotherhood Battalion (commander Oleksii Serediuk), the special unit Stugna (commander Dmytro Linko), Tactical Group Revanš (commander of the Dola unit), the unit Traditions and Order (commander of the Cristian Udaro), the active action unit Company of Jesus Christ (commander of the unit Braviy), the Drone Brotherhood, the unit of Belarusian volunteers (commander of the unit Yanki), 6-th Special Purpose Unit as part of the Timur Special Subunit, 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 Hope charity fund, and the Christian Corps carried out the 458 humanitarian mission to the Kharkiv direction, delivering equipment to the military, medical staff with resuscitation devices, and to wounded defenders—electric scooters.
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