Victor Runtulis, director and producer in the TV24 program “Press Club”: ̶ The selection of recruits for the Compulsory Military Service is a very important matter. There are those who cannot run because of heart disease. Others have poor vision. That’s why I think that 50 percent of young people are not fit for the army. I think so.
He shared his experience: I have been in the Russian army during the Soviet period in the Transbaikal region and Buryatia for a year and a half, before that in training in Belarus for half a year. I know that they took everyone back then. And there were good actors like Graver, who portrayed everything so that there is no need to go.
It does not matter how long the service is – 9, 11 or 12 months. The most important thing is what is taught there. But even more important is the professional army, which we keep talking about is not big enough to protect itself. That is why we will have NATO forces.
And here the question of investment in the reception of the NATO contingent, which will come from the state, that is, taxpayers’ money. The question is, wouldn’t it be better to invest the same amount in a professional army, expanding investments, than to admit and train new recruits every year?! – says the director.
Runtulis agrees that the first training course is necessary, because Ukraine also does not allow those volunteers who have just had enough and have not yet completed training to fight. There is an accelerated training course – a month or a maximum of two, depending on what the volunteer can do. This should be checked first.
There are a lot of questions here, you can’t say yes or no. Black or white.
Just as athletes have not said they are against the war, and they have not said they are for the war.
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