Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to ask European allies to help finance improved salaries for troops resisting Russia’s invasion, in a bid to ease growing shortages of recruits. “Previously, Europeans refused to provide funding for the salaries of our military personnel, only for weapons,” Zelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv on Thursday. “Our service members themselves can be the weapon that protects everyone.” With a mobilization campaign in Ukraine increasingly unpopular among a