Ukrainian citizens now own several million weapons in their hands. The draft laws on trophy and civilian weapons will be finalized taking into account all aspects of citizens' security. This was stated by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko in an interview with Natalia Moseichuk.

"We don't know how many weapons we have in our hands. A million or two. From one million to five million. Somewhere in the middle we will count three million. Where will these weapons be after the war? It will be buried in caches," Klymenko said, adding that four caches with weapons were discovered last week alone.

Regarding the draft laws related to weapons, the minister said that one of them is on amending the law "On National Resistance" and it will regulate the circulation of trophy weapons.

Klymenko added that registered weapons should be handed over to the National Police and the Armed Forces after the war.

"We have to decide what to do with the trophy weapons... Together with the legislators, we propose that these weapons (we are talking about assault rifles - IF-U) could be simply handed over... What is the purpose? To prevent these weapons from being hidden somewhere for many years and then used in crime," the Interior Minister said.

According to him, after the war, Ukrainians will have to report the presence of such weapons, and 90 days after the lifting of martial law, they will have to hand them over. But it is still unknown when the law will be adopted.

"I hope that we will finalize our proposals with MPs and business entities in the next few weeks and come up with a common vision," Klymenko said.

The second draft law, the minister added, concerns civilian weapons: the types of weapons and who will have the right to own them should be clearly defined.

"But the preparation must also be prescribed there... Procedures must be written clearly," explained the Interior Minister.

Answering a question about the need to register drones and equate them to weapons, Klymenko said he did not know how this rule would be written. But he emphasized that it would most likely be another law.