{"id":237076,"date":"2026-02-23T15:57:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=237076"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:42:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:42:32","slug":"zelensky-calls-on-europe-to-fund-ukraines-contract-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/237076\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky calls on Europe to fund Ukraine\u2019s contract army"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged European countries to finance Ukraine’s contract-based military, he told the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Zelensky explained that European nations could support Ukraine’s transition from a conscription-based system to a professional contract army. He noted that in Russia, soldiers are paid after signing a service contract and said Ukraine would like to follow a similar model but lacks the necessary resources.<\/p>\n

“This is where Europeans can help. Currently, European countries are not funding this program,” the Ukrainian president said.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged European countries to finance Ukraine’s contract-based military, he told the BBC. Zelensky explained that European nations could support Ukraine’s transition from a conscription-based system to a professional contract army. He noted that in Russia, soldiers are paid after signing a service contract and said Ukraine would like to follow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":237073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237077,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237076\/revisions\/237077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}