Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sustained Friday plans for allow volunteers, including foreigners, to fight in Ukraine, where he sent thousands of Russian troops in what he calls a “special military transaction.”
“If you see that there is people who want on on a voluntary basis (for help separatists from eastern Ukraine), then you need to meet them halfway and help their move for combat areas,” Putin told Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a televised meeting of the Security Council.
According to Shoigu, more more than 16,000 volunteers – mostly from the Middle East – have called on join the military action.
“As for provision of weapons, especially Westernmadewhich ended up in hands of russian army, of Of course, I support the possibility of transferring them to military units of DNR and LNR,” Putin said in reference to the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk. in Eastern Ukraine.
Putin also ordered that Shoigu prepare a separate report on strengthen the western borders of Russia “in link with the actions that NATO countries takes in this direction.”
