Military exercisesMOSCOW, 31 Jan. Former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Yegor Sobolev, who enrolled in volunteer formations of territorial defense, was handed a plywood machine gun. He himself announced this in an interview with Novoye Vremya. In mid-January, pictures appeared on the Web in which reservists from local self-defense units were training with wooden weapons. The former parliamentarian told how the formations were training. In particular, infantry tactics in small groups are being worked out, that is, ambushes, counter-ambushes, patrols, checkpoints. Sometimes practice firing takes place. At the same time, Sobolev noted that volunteers are forbidden to carry weapons outside of wartime. «In our training, it's funny to say, plywood machine guns that help to understand the tactics while moving,» he lamented.The British ridiculed the Ukrainian military for wooden machine gunsThe law on the foundations of national resistance came into force in the country on January 1, 2022. According to the document, national resistance involves the widest possible involvement of Ukrainian citizens in ensuring the country's military security, in deterring «aggression» and inflicting losses on the enemy. On January 1, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Yuriy Galushkin as commander of the territorial defense forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by his decree. Recently, the Kiev authorities and the West have been constantly accusing Russia of allegedly preparing an invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has repeatedly stated that they do not hatch any aggressive plans and do not threaten anyone, and the movement of troops across Russian territory should not worry anyone. technology. Tensions in the region are fueled by the United States and other NATO countries, which supply Ukraine with weapons and military instructors, and also increased the number of exercises in the Black Sea. Moscow believes that the West is trying to create a group of troops near the Russian borders.
