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Klymenko Made a Statement About the Right to Bear Arms, and a Bill Will Be Prepared for the Rada.
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Short-barreled weapons for self-defense may become legal. What is the Ministry of Internal Affairs proposing after the Kyiv shooting? Following the Kyiv shooting, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko announced the need to review approaches to civilian weapons and announced the preparation of a draft law. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing Klymenko's message on Telegram. Read also: Investigators have taken up police actions during the Kyiv shoot…
Ihor Klymenko at the scene of the terrorist attack in Kyiv, April 18, 2026. Photo: Inna Vygovska / hromadske Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko said that “people should receive the right to armed self-defense,” commenting on the terrorist attack in Kyiv on April 18. He wrote about this on social networks. According to him, this issue is relevant, in particular, because at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, civilians received weapo…
He wrote about it in Telegram. He noted that this issue was updated after an armed man opened fire on people and took hostages in the supermarket “Velmart” on April 18 in the Golosiivskyi district of Kiev. I believe that people should have the right to armed self-defense. Especially after the experience, when at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, civilians received weapons for national resistance,” the Minister noted. Klimenko also said tha…
The Minister of the Interior, Igor Klimenko, stated that he supported the right of citizens to self-defence and to increase the possibility of obtaining permission to possess firearms, which he wrote on Sunday, 19 April, commenting on the effects of the shooting in Kiev the day before. "I believe that people should be entitled to armed self-defence, especially after experience when civilians were given weapons for national resistance at the begi…
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