Hunting long firearms for anyone — that is what gun control looks like. Notice: no automatic anything, and no handguns.
There is a huge movement in RF to allow them handguns, because you cannot walk around with a shotgun to protect yourself.
At this point there is no going back for Ukraine, excepting possibly Crimea and South East. They are a proud nation that has been invaded. They will fight with sticks if they have to. They won’t be bought for anything. I think they made a decision about EU; they are not crazy about EU bureaucratic liberalism, but they’d rather have that than neo-sovietism of RF.
Do more research. The Ukraine, more than any other post Soviet satellite, ARE neo Communists and that is mainly why they are financially in the huge mess that they are in.
They never did shed most of those ways, like say, Russia did.