The Ministry of Internal Affairs has already formed eight “Offensive Guard” brigades, and plans to prepare additional brigades

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has already formed eight "Offensive Guard" brigades. They plan to train additional teams there.

The Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko told about this in an interview with Interfax.

"The teams are fully formed. These are eight brigades. We have plans to form additional brigades, because there is a demand for it, and we have the opportunities," he noted.

According to him, the already formed brigades are being re-armed. They will be trained for two to three weeks.

Klymenko said that the task of each of these brigades is to carry out an offensive together with the Defense Forces during military operations. At the same time, he noted that the brigades from the "Offensive Guard" have not yet come under the command of the Defense Forces.

• Recruitment to the "Offensive Guard" ended on April 1. We are talking about the assault brigades of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which will take part in the liberation of Donbas and Crimea. They started forming them at the beginning of February. In total, the department received 35 000 applications.