KYIV, Feb 11 – Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant-General Valeriy Zaluzhny has said that in the near future it is expected to attract from one and a half to two million motivated citizens to serve in the reserve of the Territorial Defense Forces.

"We have quite ambitious plans in this direction [in recruiting]: by the end of March we would like to have at least 70% of the reservists who will serve in these battalions [of Territorial Defense Forces]. We are interested in one and a half to two million motivated citizens who want to protect their home, family, country, and whom we must prepare," Zaluzhny said during a meeting of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Kharkiv on Friday.