Ukraine MPs vote to allow civilians to carry firearms amid 'existing threats'

KYIV, UKRAINE --
Ukraine's parliament on Wednesday voted to approve within the first studying a draft legislation which provides permission to Ukrainians to hold firearms and act in self-defence.


"The adoption of this legislation is absolutely within the pursuits of the state and society," the authors of the draft legislation mentioned in a notice, including that the legislation was wanted as a consequence of "present threats and risks for the residents of Ukraine."


Certainly one of Europe's worst safety crises in a long time was unfolding after Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged two areas of japanese Ukraine as impartial and ordered troops to be deployed to japanese Ukraine.

(Reporting by Natalia Zinets, writing by Pavel Polityuk; enhancing by Matthias Williams) 

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    A lady holds a Kalashnikov assault rifle throughout a coaching of members of a Ukrainian far-right group in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 20, 2022. (AP Photograph/Efrem Lukatsky)

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