Over the past week, recruitment centers received 956 new applications, and a total of 21,910 people have applied since the centers started operating. The leaders in terms of the number of applications are Kharkiv and Dnipro regions and Kyiv. This is reported by the Ministry of Defense, UNN reports.
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"Recruitment centers received 956 new applications over the past week. Since the beginning of their work (as of October 20), 21,910 people have applied to the centers. Of these, 5,415 are already being considered as candidates for the Ukrainian Defense Forces. Over the past week alone, 185 people have moved to the stage of consideration as potential candidates," the Ministry of Defense said.
The ministry noted that the leaders in terms of the number of appeals are:
Kharkiv region - 17.3%;
Dnipropetrovska oblast - 15.9%;
Kyiv - 14.9%;
Zaporizhzhia region - 12.8%;
Lviv region - 11.7%.
In total, there are 44 recruitment centers in Ukraine.
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