The sequence shows the profound disorder in which part of Russian society finds itself. Less than a week after Vladimir Putin announced the partial mobilization of 300,000 men to support the troops already present in Ukraine, a young man tried to set himself on fire in the city of Ryazan, located south east of Moscow.
Mobilized, the man went to the parking lot of the city’s bus station, doused himself with a flammable liquid before catching fire. According to the independent media Novaya Gazeta, which released the images recorded by closed-circuit television cameras, the victim was 90% burned and shouted, when he was arrested, that he did not want to “go to the front.”
“He was standing on the street, near the buses. He caught fire and started laughing and screaming that he didn’t want to go to the special operation in Ukraine. All his clothes were burned. The police came out and took him away and then an ambulance came.” , rewind a witness to YA62.ru.
exacerbated violence
If since February 24 the demonstrations against the invasion of Ukraine had remained on the sidelines in Russia, the announcement of this partial mobilization has apparently accelerated events. According to Novaya Gazeta, 54 military enlistment offices and administrative buildings have been burned since the start of the war, including 17 in the last five days.
This Monday, a man opened fire at one of these recruitment offices in Oust-Ilimsk, a remote town in the Siberian region of Irkutsk, seriously injuring an officer who worked there. The Russian Investigative Committee said the suspect, a 25-year-old resident, had been arrested. The victim is hospitalized in a very serious condition.
“Investigators and a criminologist are working at the scene of the incident. All the circumstances of the incident will be clarified. The suspect has been arrested, is being questioned by investigators. The victim has been taken to a medical center. indicates, with BFMTV, Karina Golovatcheva, senior assistant to the head of the investigative commission of the Irkutsk region.
In recent days, demonstrations have multiplied in several disadvantaged regions against partial and sometimes chaotic mobilization. The Russian government is accused of seeking to mobilize as a priority in poor and isolated areas.
Since Putin’s announcements, crowds of Russians have also rushed to the country’s borders and airports. In this context, Dmitri Peskov, if he admitted “mistakes” that needed to be corrected, suggested that closing the borders to prevent the departure of people of fighting age was not ruled out.
Source: BFM TV
