While the war is ongoing: the police will not take away weapons from the Ukrainians, distributed at the beginning of the invasion
The head of the National Police explained this that now, when the war is ongoing, people with weapons are feeling much more calm and more safe. At the same time, he noted that work is currently underway on a bill that regulates control over these weapons and will establish its account. "To make the citizen, recorded it (weapons. - Ed. Vyhovsky emphasized.
The head of the National Police said that it was the idea to encourage cash payments to those who voluntarily hand over the weapon, but the police did not yet have such material resources. "This is, of course, motivation. Another motivation is to leave weapons to citizens, but to make it not firearms, to lift it. Of course, weapons in our hands are one of the problems. We, sometimes, are removed whole. There was even a Shahaneda's battle part. People even bring it home, "he said.
At the same time, Vyhovsky stressed that from the beginning of a full -scale invasion, law enforcement officers seize much more illegal weapons from Ukrainians - "a ton of explosives, millions of cartridges, thousands of grenades, guns,". Although, according to the Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Klimenko, Ukrainian society has ripened to the legalization of weapons, it should be precisely about safe handling of weapons.
It should be reminded that in Kiev alone in the first days of the invasion were distributed about 25 thousand machines and 10 million cartridges. This was then reported by the deceased Minister of Internal Affairs Denis Monastyrsky. Already on March 3, 2022, the Verkhovna Rada in closed regime legalized the issuance of firearms in civilian weapons, ready to participate in the reflection of aggression of the Russian Federation.
Later, on June 23, 2023, the "Unified Register of Weapons" was launched in Ukraine. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 19 588 users have already been authorized in the Single Window of the Citizen. We will remind, on January 4, the Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Klimenko told that law enforcement officers are ready for mobilization if the situation is deteriorating.