Eleven soldiers and recruits who were training to shoot at a military range in the Russian region of Belgorod - the Federation border oblast closest to the north-eastern Ukrainian hot front of Kharkiv -
were shot dead by two not better defined "terrorists" from a former Soviet country member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CSI), also unspecified
, according to information released by the Moscow Defense Ministry.
The two, specifies the dicastery, were shot down by the response fire.
The two, probably recruits, fired automatic weapons at their fellow soldiers: in addition to the 11 dead there are at least 15 wounded, who were rushed to hospital.
The training at the shooting range in the Belgorod region is functional to the large "partial" mobilization of up to 300,000 conscripts to reinforce the Russian military force in Ukraine,
ordered and announced on 21 September by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Since last Friday, in the same region, a power plant has been bombed - an attack that caused a fire - and then a fuel depot, which produced an even bigger one.
"The fire was extinguished in a tank containing 3,000 cubic meters. No one was injured," said a spokesman for the Russian emergency services.
The attack on the power plant had caused, in addition to the flames, a blackout in various areas of the capital city that gives the region its name.