{"id":1309523,"date":"2025-10-21T16:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-contract-18-24-program-has-been-expanded-again-young-people-can-join-any-combat-unit\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T16:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:53:06","slug":"the-contract-18-24-program-has-been-expanded-again-young-people-can-join-any-combat-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-contract-18-24-program-has-been-expanded-again-young-people-can-join-any-combat-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cContract 18-24\u201d program has been expanded again: young people can join any combat unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Deputy Head of the Presidential Office announced the expansion of the \u201cContract 18-24\u201d program, adding all combat units of the Defense Forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/PavloPalisa\/105\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wrote<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">about this<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The official said that at first you could choose from several brigades, then the program was expanded, and now there is a new solution &#8211; to include all combat units.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From now on, people under 25 years old can join any brigade under the \u201cContract 18-24\u201d program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd all brigades will be able to recruit motivated young people to their ranks,\u201d Palisa added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Palisa previously stated that the <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/v-op-anonsuvaly-rozshyrennia-prohramy-kontrakt-18-24\/\">&#8220;Contract 18-24&#8221; voluntary recruitment program could be expanded to include citizens of older age groups<\/a> , as well as military personnel already serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> As you know, in February, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-minoborony-oholosyly-pro-kontraktnu-prohramu-dlia-ukraintsiv-vikom-18-24-roky-iak-molod-mozhe-pryiednatysia-do-lav-zsu\/\">the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine officially launched the &#8220;Contract 18-24&#8221; project<\/a> &#8211; a new format of voluntary service for Ukrainians aged 18 to 24.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Head of the Presidential Office announced the expansion of the \u201cContract 18-24\u201d program, adding all combat units of the Defense Forces. He wrote about this on social media. The official said that at first you could choose from several brigades, then the program was expanded, and now there is a new solution &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1098971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1309523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1098971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}