Up to €3,400 per month: Meet the Spanish company recruiting fighters for Ukraine

The most difficult test for future Spanish fighters in the International Legion of Ukraine is to hold a key position they have won for three days. To do this, the volunteers spend two nights and three days without sleep, defending the strategic point.

"Of the whole course, this is the test with the highest dropout rate," Francisco Galván, director and head trainer of G.O.A. Tactical, the only company in Spain dedicated to training people who want to fight in Ukraine, told Euronews.

This is followed by other exercises, such as running with military equipment on their shoulders, capturing and "clearing" occupied trenches and stress tests in a hostile environment.

For seven hundred euros, the future fighters receive five days of training to experience what will happen on the battlefield.

The reward? A contract with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, worth up to €3,400 if they join the elite units.

"Our company has contacts with defence ministries all over the world, including Ukraine. What we do is evaluate a person who is interested in fighting and give them the contacts so they can get in touch with them," says Galván.

"It is the volunteer who has to call them directly, but our contacts are waiting for him. He then shows the validation certificate and he has the job," he adds.

This is to avoid the company being classified as a private security and defence contractor, the so-called Private Military Companies, a service similar to the Wagner Group.

"We have people fighting in Ukraine. One of them went back to Spain to rest for a few months, and that's when he was asked (by Ukrainian officials) if he could recruit people to fight in the war," says Galván.

After 18 months of fighting Russia's full-scale invasion, Ukraine needs