The head of the defense committee of the State Duma invited the Russians to defend the borders themselves
The head of the Defense Committee of the State Duma, Andrei Kartopolov, believes that the local population can be involved in protecting the Russian borders. According to him, this is due to the fact that Russia does not have the ability to protect the borders along the entire perimeter, as it was in the USSR.
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5953942
Andrei Turchak said that the working group, created by decree of Mr. Putin at the end of 2022, had processed more than 25,000 requests. The group also prepared a number of proposals, including:
to give participants in territorial defense and voluntary people's squads in the regions the right to carry and use weapons;
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5952725
This explains the explosive growth of private military companies (PMCs)
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Yes, give the locals weapons. I’m sure there is no possibility that they might march to Moscow with those weapons instead of using them to defend the border.