Russian local authorities have begun distributing anti-drone guns and other weaponry to civilian forces in the south-west of the country for the first time since the Ukraine war began.
Tass, the Russian state’s news agency, reported on Wednesday that territorial self-defence forces in the Belgorod region that borders Ukraine had received the equipment, which also included machine guns and off-road vehicles.
“These are necessary measures against the attacks from the Ukrainian territory,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. He said the Kremlin did not fear that the weapons could fall “into the wrong hands”.
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