“The commander-in-chief can make a decision on his own and provide volunteer formations with grenade launchers, mortars, anti-aircraft guns, man-portable anti-aircraft missile systems, anti-tank missile systems.
That is, weapons that will definitely be a very powerful deterrent for a possible expansion of aggression, ”he said in an interview with the Novoye Vremya portal.
He also clarified that the volunteers will not be given tanks, but they can provide armored personnel carriers, “at least those that are in warehouses that are not used (BTR-60, BTR-70).”
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Kiev authorities do not control a huge part of the Ukrainian military.
On January 27, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine announced the arrest of a soldier of the National Guard of the country, who opened fire in the Dnieper, because of which five people died and five more were injured.