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To convince them to serve, Kyiv offers 18- to 24-year-olds special one-year contracts, a sign-up bonus of $24,000 and monthly salaries of $2,800 -- much more than conscripts, aged 25 and over, get.

Each time he arrives, Lai adds his name to a special sign-up sheet, and later, the center reports the participant numbers to SilverSneakers.

They include a monthly salary of $2,800 -- four times what they could earn in the military at home -- and a sign-up fee of up to $20,000 to set them up in life.

Munaser said he did not charge recruits for his service but warned that "brokers" on social media exploit young Iraqis and take a percentage of their army sign-up fee.