Mobilization in Russia may fail – protests, shootings, why military commissars are burning
The shooting at the Military Commissariat
A young man opens fire in the military commissariat of Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk region. A video went viral on social networks, showing a man with a gun firing a shot, while people who were with him at the same time run away screaming.
As a result of the incident, military commissar Oleksandr Yeliseev was injured, he is in intensive care in a serious condition. The attacker is 25-year-old local resident Ruslan Zinin. According to his mother, the summons did not come to the boy himself, but to his best friend.
“Ruslan was very upset about this, because his friend did not serve in the army. They said that there would be a partial mobilization, and to leave, that they would take everyone,” Zinina said.
Military headquarters and administrative buildings were attacked
Uryupinsk (Volgograd region)
On the morning of September 26, a military commissar broke out in the Uryupin and Novomykolaiv districts. The fire was promptly extinguished. The police detained a local resident Mykhailo Filatov. He posted on his VKontakte wall a post with an image of a Molotov cocktail and wrote: “I protest against mobilization and express war like this.”
Chernyakhivsk (Kaliningrad region)
A local resident was suspected of setting fire to the signs on the building of the city military commissariat. A day before, a bottle with an incendiary mixture was thrown against the wall of the Military Commissariat. Local authorities called the incident “the burning of an information board near the door of a military comatose.”
Leningrad region
On the night of September 25, two administrative buildings were set on fire in the Leningrad region. In Kirovsk, unknown persons burned down the office of the district military commissar, drilling a hole in the window frame and hanging a canister with explosives.
In addition, two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the office of social protection in the administration of the Syaskelivsk village settlement.
St. Petersburg
On the evening of September 25, a 20-year-old former student of the chemistry faculty of the Herzen State University was detained. He is suspected of setting fire to a military camp in Lomonosov, a criminal case has been opened against him for the intentional destruction of damage to someone else’s property.
According to the investigation, the detainee wanted to burn the file cabinet of the military comatose, but confused the building. The premises that burned down, despite the “Military Commissary” sign, belonged to the Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker.
Tarusa (Kalyuga region)
An unknown person threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of the local military comatose. According to the media, only the wooden window frame caught fire.
It should be noted that since the beginning of the war in Russia, 54 military commissars and administrative buildings have been set on fire. Only in the last five days after the announced mobilization, there were 17 cases.
Photo: map of arson in Russia (zona.media)
Self-immolation in Ryazan
A local resident set himself on fire at the Central bus station. The published video shows a man in jeans and a T-shirt walking on the road and at the same time pouring liquid from a bottle on his head. After that, he sets himself on fire and runs away.
According to eyewitnesses, the man laughed and shouted that he did not want to participate in the war against Ukraine. He also shouted “I don’t want to go to the front” when he was taken away after setting himself on fire. He has burns on 90% of his body.
Protests in Dagestan
Protests continue in Dagestan for the second day. Today, the security forces started using stun guns and pepper spray against demonstrators in Makhachkala. According to preliminary estimates, about 70 people were detained for actions against mobilization.
Local mass media note that the police are extremely harsh in engaging the participants of the rally. Their phones are taken away to check if they filmed the rally and kept it on camera. There was also a mass fight with the Rosguards.
Today, the action was dispersed also in Khasavyurt. According to “Kavkaz. Realiya”, about 100 people came to the protest, but security forces violently dispersed the protesters. There are detainees, including many women.
Russians are fleeing the country
Russian citizens are trying to leave the country before martial law can be declared there. Today, a traffic jam on the border with Georgia near the checkpoint in Upper Lars (North Ossetia) stretched for several kilometers.
Due to the influx of people who want to go to Georgia, they allowed to cross the border on foot at the checkpoint. While the “Lars” checkpoint is not officially designated for this.
Russian soldiers were pulled over at the checkpoint, and an armored personnel carrier was also driven away. Allegedly, in order to reserve, they did not break through the checkpoint. At the same time, cases of refusal to cross the border should be reported to those who were issued summonses or mobilization orders from the military coma.
The Russian mass media write that the relevant lists appear in the database of airports and when trying to leave such lists to the participants, they refuse such an opportunity.
It also became known that since October 10, Kazakhstan began to demand foreign passports from Russians when crossing the border. In addition, you require some more documents – in total there are 10 items on the list. So far, citizens of Russia can cross the border with Kazakhstan with an internal passport. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan notes that since the beginning of mobilization, about 40,000 Russians have entered the country.
At the same time, the Ministry of Defense of Russia is trying to reassure its citizens, promising that there are no restrictions on movement.