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Ukraine seeking more foreign fighters, Zelenskiy says

Ukraine will hike military wages and seek to recruit more fighters abroad, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says ‌as the army faces a manpower shortage after four years of war with Russia.

Zelenskiy's ‌government said in May it would study possible measures to boost military personnel numbers ‌after talks on how to end the war with Russia stalled.

"We agreed on how to increase the financial resilience of our defence and further transformation of the Ukrainian army," Zelenskiy said in his daily address after meeting key cabinet ministers.

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