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Accurate figures regarding the rate of “shell shock” in veterans of trench warfare are not available; however, some British estimates place the rate of “PTSD” at 40% of the casualties at the Battle of the Somme, 25 and from 10% to 20% of British soldiers wounded during WWI. [...] The Challenge Ahead – Moving from a Soviet to a Democratic Model of Veterans Affairs The scope and scale of the challenge of addressing the needs of Ukraine’s veterans is daunting. [...] 38 However, a more apt comparison and the reason Ukraine also looks to Croatia and Israel for comparative veterans populations, is threefold: the location of the combat in which the veterans participated; the percentage of the population within the armed forces at a given moment of time; and the timing of demobilization. [...] Moreover, the conservative 4% of the population as veterans figure identified above is a product of one decade and most of it the product of the past two years. [...] One option is to use a point system to allocate benefits (or determine the order of demobilization) inspired by the system used by the United States to determine the order of demobilization at the end of the Second World War.