At the neighbors, hundreds of people report to the active reserves every day. In Slovakia, we count them on our fingers
Every day, about a hundred Czechs ask the local authorities to join the army’s active reserves, which are multiples of the normal situation. This is also one of the effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and it has occurred not only in our western neighbors.
Increased interest in joining the army is also reported by Poles and the Baltics, for example. However, the situation is different in Slovakia. “The Armed Forces Personnel Office registers nine applications for inclusion in active reserves,” said Martina Kovaľ Kakaščíková, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defense, stating that the tender had not yet been officially announced. We are also hampered by a strict system.
They report a big increase
In Poland, 2,200 people enlisted in the army last week in February, with a weekly average of around 400 applicants. The local Ministry of Defense also spoke of the increased demand for service in the Polish Armed Forces of Territorial Defense, where people volunteer. This is the equivalent of our active advances, with members training one weekend a month.
Latvia, for example, has seen a 50-fold increase in interest in active advances, where they have registered 1,800 applications in the last month. The amount was previously recorded in four years. At the same time, it is a country with less than two million inhabitants, without neighbors with Russia and Belarus.
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