An important step is: the service in the military will become more attractive?

In the forests near Pabrade, Domantas Domantas chose the service voluntarily and has no regrets.

« I like the team most probably because you still live with people in 9 months, they become brothers, » said Domantas Krasauskas, an ordinary, ordinary.

Curry bread likes. After the compulsory service, Domantas says he will become a professional – serve in his native Klaipeda.

« There would be a little less theoretical training and more practice in the forests themselves. Perhaps the program itself is a little oriented to modern times, for example, Ukraine showed drone battles, » the conscript considered.

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Lithuania’s goals are large – up to 2030 would have a division. However, our country is still lacking in soldiers, so the government promises to raise salaries and improve social conditions.

« We really want to have better conditions for us to attract more soldiers. Another thing is that we write off our very young officers and, instead of 56, it is possible to add the opportunity to extend the service for 4 years, » the Minister of National Defense Dovilė Šakalienė said.

« What is now offered – 7 % – is a good step because I think we are in inflation, we are a little motivated by soldiers, » said Giedrimas Jeglinskas, chairman of the National Security and Defense Committee.

Young people who have done compulsory military service earn about a thousand euros as professionals. However, he receives accessories as well as money for renting housing. Following the implementation of the proposals, the real salary of soldiers from July should increase at least two hundred euros.

« Salaries have been quite good lately, steadily growing, and I think, over time, a really simple conscript will be able to get away with salary, » Krasauskas emphasized.

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The division is not only lacking in modern military equipment – artillery, armored vehicles – and who will manage this technique. It is estimated that about 5 thousand people still need. soldiers.

« We need to increase our capabilities, we need to expand and do so rapidly by implementing the VGT decision on the formation of our division by 2030. We need to expand the number of staff quickly enough, » the National Defense Minister emphasized.

Conservatives also support their salaries to improve soldiers and increase their salaries. However, their chairman, former Minister of National Defense Laurynas Kasčiūnas, is convinced that what the current minister offers is too little.

« There is not something very impressive. Up to 10 percent growth, 7 % is fine, but this will not solve fundamental problems if we want a breakthrough in attracting our young people to the army, » the former Minister of National Defense shared.

According to L. Kasčiūnas, it is necessary to achieve a thousand soldiers every year to achieve the objectives, so far 200-300 are replenished.

« What the ministry brings is a very important, but quite a small step. It ensures that there is no shortage of people in the Lithuanian Armed Forces and that our division, which we dream of here, will actually become a reality, » said G. Jeglinskas.

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Not only the opposition has accusations to the Ministry of National Defense. The head of the Nemunas Dawn says that the ministry has a lot of expensive unprecedented procurement and the minister pays too little attention to their control.

« Everything is in order to do what she does, but when the host is not at home, the mice begin to work hard on the table. We have information that comes from ordinary workers or from ordinary army specialists, it is not good, » said Remigijus Žemaitaitis.

« The Ministry of National Defense is not so distinguished when it comes to social affairs, for example, there are even higher amounts, but it seems clear to everyone where it is used. It is every mortar, every infrastructure object, the German brigade and every salary to the soldier seems to me to be extremely clear and completely transparent. »

The amendments proposed from July may require an additional almost twenty million euros.