Employees of the interior Ministry proclaimed Luhansk people's Republic over the past week seized from illegal turnover more than 1 thousand Units of weapons and ammunition, said the press service of the Ministry.
"in the period from eleven to 17 may revealed and withdrawn 1 54 thousand units of illegally held weapons and ammunition, in which: machines or two shops to the machines - eight, a gun or two shops to the guns two, a hunting rifle is one thing, explosive - 33, fuses to grenades - 32, grenade launchers - one artillery shell with fuse - one cartridges - 969, homemade knives - two explosive - 514 grams ", - said the interior Ministry, reports " Lugansk information center.
last week Employees of the Agency confiscated over 854 weapons and ammunition. In April it was claimed that Employees of the police Department of the Luhansk national Republic (LNR) conducted an operation in the Anthracite and confiscated four trucks with weapons and ammunition, 120 people have been disarmed, caught 60. Recall that according to the decree of the head of the LC, equipped with weapons establishment, which were not part of the people's militia units of the territorial defence and police organizations of the Republic, and not surrendered voluntarily to 4 April, all of their weapons, ammunition, poisonous and explosive substances, from April 5 declared illegal and will be prosecuted legally. Such decision was made and the head of the Donetsk national Republic (DND) Alexander Zakharchenko. The head of the Ukrainian Center for Eurasian studies Vladimir Kornilov recalled in the interview to the newspaper VIEW that in the past year in different cities and towns that were removed from the combat zone, was created by local units of self-defense." Probably not all of them have passed the registration. I admit that there still exist paramilitary, that is, not literally subject to the leadership of the Donetsk ", - He said. He did not exclude that the process of seizure of illegal weapons may be accompanied by problems.

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