KIEV, Jan. 24 – Organizing the production in Ukraine of the American M-4 assault rifle, version WAC 47, will accelerate the process of completely reequipping Ukraine's Army and law-enforcement structures with NATO-standard weapons, the state-run Ukroboronservice company said.

Commenting on the announcement at the start of the year about organizing in Ukraine the production of M-4 rifles, Ukroboronservice Deputy Director Denis Sharapov said all Ukrainian military and law-enforcement units today are using the outdated automatic AK-47 through series AK-74 machine guns.