Yurii Butusov: Thoughts on terrorist attack in Kyiv
All police officers must gain combat experience, because the willingness to defend the country is the ultimate test in wartime.
1. Commanders of all police units should already have real combat experience, because otherwise they cannot ensure law and order in a country where a significant share of the population has combat experience and where enemy terrorist attacks are a routine scenario of potential danger. In the longer term, all police officers should gain combat experience, because the willingness to defend the country is the ultimate test in wartime. Police officers who abandoned people in danger and fled from a criminal should demonstratively be put on trial just like those who abandoned their comrades and their combat position during battle.
2. All citizens of Ukraine who participate in the defense of Ukraine and carry out combat orders within any structures of the defense forces, including the Volunteer Formations of Territorial Communities (VFTC), must be granted the right to own and carry weapons for self-defense. The right to carry weapons in the rear is granted by an order from the commander of the unit under which combat orders are executed. Specific commanders must take responsibility for the mental fitness and absence of addictions among their subordinates.
3. The Chief of the Patrol Police, Yevhen Zhukov, who has submitted his resignation, worked systematically to provide combat experience for police officers who hold civilian status. This led to the creation of the "Khyzhak" (Predator) police brigade. Consequently, combat units have been established within many patrol police departments. Two UAV crews from the "Robocopy" (Robocops) combat unit of the Kharkiv Region Patrol Police, commanded personally by the regional patrol police chief Viktor Levchenko, were attached to my platoon near Kupiansk and Lyptsi. The "Patrol" crew operated with maximum efficiency near Kupiansk and earned the respect of the entire strike group, despite regular shelling and strikes on their position
I personally went on reconnaissance missions near Kupiansk several times with Anton Borovkov, Deputy Commander of the Patrol Police Regiment; he is a person who is completely reliable under enemy fire and drone strikes. I hope that Zhukov, who acted as a responsible officer, will be able to continue his work on the combat deployment of the police in another capacity within the Ministry of Internal Affairs, given his authority in the defense forces.
Yurii Butusov, Censor.NET
