Thousands of weapons were given to Ukrainians at the start of the Russian invasion to help contain the enemy, Monastyrsky said.
The distribution of weapons to the population in the first days of the war became an obstacle to the Russian invasion. Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky said this for the Washington Post, posted on the department’s website.
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“This step is an important deterrent for both Russians and potential Ukrainian defectors. After all, any mayor of Ukraine who thinks about treason will understand that 20 people with weapons are waiting for him outside, and that “he and his family will come first,” – said the minister.
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also spoke about the Russian invasion on the night of February 24.
“It’s dark. The head of the Border Service of Ukraine is in touch: he said that his subordinates are fighting the Russians in three northeastern regions of Ukraine,” Monastyrsky said.
The minister immediately called President Volodymyr Zelensky, telling him that “it has already begun.”
“Because the attacks were happening in several places at the same time, this was it,” recalled the minister.
Monastyrsky said that in the first minutes the Russians delivered terrible blows to our air defense and to our troops as a whole. “There is a 20-meter funnel, the likes of which no one has ever seen in my life,” he specified.
According to him, at that time the main question was to what extent the enemy.
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also said how the president gathered his key advisers, and then decided that part of the cabinet, including the heads of the police and the defense sector, would remain in Kyiv, while the rest stay in Kyiv. moved to western Ukraine.
Monastyrsky added that officials were surprised to watch with border surveillance as hundreds of Russian vehicles invaded Ukraine in rows reminiscent of World War II offensives: from Belarus to the north, from Russia to in the east, from the Crimea to the south.
Recall that at the beginning of the war, the Kyiv police gave 6.5 thousand weapons to the residents of the city, about a thousand units have already been returned, the rest have been registered.
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Source: korrespondent
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