The head of the defense committee of the State Duma invited the Russians to defend the borders themselves

The head of the Defense Committee of the State Duma, Andrei Kartopolov, believes that the local population can be involved in protecting the Russian borders. According to him, this is due to the fact that Russia does not have the ability to protect the borders along the entire perimeter, as it was in the USSR.

“Unfortunately, we now do not have such opportunities as in the Soviet Union, when the entire country along the perimeter was guarded by military units of the border troops of the USSR. Therefore, now there are somewhat different ways of protecting borders. But to involve the local population on a voluntary basis, in my opinion, this is quite realistic and understandable. This is practiced in many countries. Including in the former enlightened Europe,” said Andrey Kartapolov URA.RU.

Andrey Kartapolov believes that first you need to allow the combatants to guard the borders, and then decide what conditions are necessary for this. “It is important to make a decision in principle: yes or no. That is, we trust our people in terms of responsibility for the security of our border areas. If we trust, then we trust. And then the technology is already beginning to take shape: what units, how many there will be, what kind of organization they will be,” he said.

In the Belgorod and Kursk regions bordering Ukraine last year began the formation of volunteer people’s squads in order to protect the borders of the country. Their training, including is engaged PMC “Wagner”. In December 2022, the governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, said that since the start of the special military operation, more than 2,000 people had joined the people’s squads.

Formerly Secretary of the General Council of United Russia Andrey Turchak offered Russian President Vladimir Putin to give the fighters of the territorial defense of voluntary people’s squads the right to bear arms.

On March 2, a group of saboteurs from the territory of Ukraine penetrated into the villages of Sushany and Lyubechane, Bryansk region. Responsibility for this was assumed by the “Russian Volunteer Corps”, fighting on the side of the armed forces of Ukraine.

Anastasia Larina