'No one's going anywhere': Russia reservist shoots at Putin's recruiting officer
Created: 09/26/2022, 14:55
By: Franziska Schwarz
In a Russian conscription office, a man is said to have seriously injured an employee with a firearm.
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Irkutsk/Moscow - The partial mobilization rejected by many Russians is having consequences, and not just in the form of street protests in Russia: a reservist has now shot at the head of a draft office, seriously injuring the man.
The incident took place in the eastern Siberian city of Ust-Ilimsk in the Irkutsk region, the region's governor Igor Kobsev told Telegram on Monday (September 26).
The information could not initially be independently verified.
"The shooter was arrested immediately and will definitely be punished," Kobsev said.
The 25-year-old reservist who was to be drafted was arrested.
The condition of the "military commissar" is critical, said Kobsev.
"The doctors are fighting for his life."
Shots fired in Russian conscription office: "Nobody goes anywhere"
As the
image
claims to have learned, the perpetrator was in an uproar because his best friend was called up.
He himself had probably not received any notification.
The
Guardian
, in turn, quoted a suspected witness to the crime: When the employee explained the procedure to those summoned, a man stepped out of the line and said: "No one is going anywhere." Then three shots were heard.
Critics have accused the authorities of concentrating their mobilization efforts in remote areas such as Siberia and the North Caucasus in order to avoid sparking resistance in the urban regions and especially Moscow.
Protests in Russia: Resistance to partial mobilization escalates
In the Russian republic of Dagestan, resistance to the drafts escalated in several places over the weekend.
Women threw their fists at police officers to prevent their husbands, sons or brothers from dying in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Many shouted that they had nothing against Ukrainians and therefore would not shoot at them.
A police officer fired a submachine gun in the air to calm the angry crowd.
At times, a trunk road was closed with sit-ins by the Dagestanis.
Picture taken on September 21: Police officers advance anti-war protesters in St. Petersburg © Olga Maltseva/AFP
Partial mobilization triggers flight from Russia: families in panic
In order to avoid conscription, tens of thousands of men fled the country by plane or by car across the borders to the ex-Soviet republics of Kazakhstan (Central Asia) or Georgia (South Caucasus).
Many families in Russia are terrified of losing loved ones in the war.
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Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin had ordered the partial mobilization.
300,000 reservists are now to be drafted into the Russian army.
At the same time, Putin had tightened the laws against conscientious objectors.
The responsibility for organizing the convocation lies with the regional governors and the individual district military replacement offices on site
(dpa/AFP/frs)
