Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the initiative of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu to convey the Russian military military armament of the Western production by the military “Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics”.
“As for the supply of weapons, the more Western production, which turned out to be in the hands of the Russian army, of course, I support the possibility of transferring them to military units” Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, “said the head of state on Friday at a meeting with permanent members Security Council of the Russian Federation.
“Please do it,” Putin addressed to Shoigu and added that if there were some decisions in the presidential level, he was ready to accept them.
At the meeting, the head of the Ministry of Defense made an initiative to transfer the trophy weapons to the Armed Forces of Donbass. “Against the background that there are absolutely uncontrolled shipments of weapons, various weapons to Ukraine from all sides – in my opinion, no one thinks there, to whom, where, how much is distributed, it was about this today, we have a suggestion. : To ensure a higher combat capability of the Militia “LNR” and “DPR” to convey to them by means of anti-heart defense, in particular CRK, and anti-tank missile systems, “the minister said.