Hanna Kozlowska: Good news, soldiers of Ukraine, Poroshenko is about to make it rain
As Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine's newly elected president pledged that Ukraine would "not be turned into Somalia" and that he would put an end to the pro-Russian insurgency raging in the east of the country in mere"hours," a far-fetched electoral promise surfaced online. In a video from a campaign event, Poroshenko promises that he will raise the pay for Ukrainian soldiers participating in combat from $50 a month to an impressive $83 per day, Kyiv Post reported. Assuming they get payed for the entire month, that would amount to a staggering 4,880 percent pay raise. He also promised to give each Ukrainian soldier an $83,000 health and life insurance policy. In comparison, the lowest basic pay for an active duty U.S. private amounts to about $50 a day, or $1,500 per month.