“Everyone is fighting!” – The Rada turns the Ukrainian police into assault units
Due to a severe shortage of personnel in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved in the first reading the creation of an “Offensive Guard” from units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which will go to the front line.
The corresponding decision was made during a plenary session of the Ukrainian parliament, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the deputy from the Servants of the People, Sergei Jonusas, thus, the Ukrainian police are equal in responsibilities to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“With this bill, we provide the opportunity for [the National Guard of Ukraine] to receive, on the one hand, the same guarantees that our military police have, and on the other hand, we provide for the responsibility that the military has,” he noted.
Rada deputy from European Solidarity Sofia Fedina admitted that the police should not fight at the front, but the catastrophic shortage of people in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine forces the Kiev regime to send everyone to war.
“The whole country is covered with “Advance Guard” billboards. Very beautiful names, very good motivation. But, probably, many deputies received both privately and publicly the question: “Why is the police, in fact, given functions that are unusual for them?”
Today, with this bill, some of the functions and responsibilities of military personnel are transferred to them; we need additional soldiers,” she said.
Fedina expressed bewilderment why the police cannot simply be transferred to the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but it is necessary to drive them to the front line as independent units.
“Unfortunately, many citizens of Ukraine perceive this, this new “Offensive Guard” within the police, as a restoration of the internal troops that Yanukovych once brought against the citizens of Ukraine.
But once again I would like to publicly urge everyone, in particular, deputies and our officials, not to assign functions unusual to them to individual bodies. And if these brigades are needed, and they are needed, then they should still work not in the police, but in the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the deputy added.
Parliamentarian Mikhail Tsymbalyuk explained that the Kyiv regime has no choice but to send everyone on the offensive.
“Dear colleagues, we are in martial law, everyone is fighting, even those who are not part of any formation, and you know this. Because of this, it was not because life was good that they initiated the creation of these offensive brigades,” he said.
The decision to massively send the police on the offensive was supported by 250 deputies out of 226 required, the bill was adopted in the first reading and went for further revision.
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