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This is getting better and better. Wow. What a freakin L, brehs. TLR (the R stands for Russia) ain't gon like this one.Link: Russia: man shoots officer drafting residents for war in Ukraine
Russia: man shoots officer drafting residents for war in Ukraine
In separate incident, another man sets himself on fire as protests at Putin’s partial mobilisation continue
A screengrab of the shooting at a Russian recruitment centre in Ust-Ilimsk, Siberia. Photograph: BABR
A Russian draft officer has been shot by a man angry at his friend’s conscription and another man has set himself on fire in a protest as opposition to Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a partial mobilisation for the war in Ukraine grows.
Protests were also expected to continue for a third day in Russia’s Dagestan region, where officers have fired automatic weapons in the air to disperse angry crowds. Meanwhile, thousands of cars have lined up at the Russian borders carrying young men seeking to flee the country in order to escape the draft.
There is a sense that tensions are rising across Russia, as angry showdowns at local draft centres play out in videos published to social media and rumours circulate about an impending closure of the borders or even martial law.
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The Kremlin has sought to calm Russians, saying that no decisions have been made to shut the borders or impose martial law. But the backlash has already begun.
A draft officer was shot in Ust-Ilimsk, a town of about 85,000 people in the Irkutsk region in Siberia. Video showed him being shot at close range by another man dressed in camouflage clothing as other potential draftees fled the room.
The official was carried from the building and placed on to a stretcher. He appeared not to be moving. As he was placed into an ambulance, one woman said: “One, two, three, and he’s dead.”
The Irkutsk regional governor, Igor Kobzev, wrote on the Telegram messaging app that the head of the draft office was in a critical condition in hospital, where doctors were “fighting for his life”. Kobzev said the detained gunman would “absolutely be punished”.
“I am ashamed that this is happening at a time when, on the contrary, we should be united,” the governor wrote. “We must fight not against each other, but against real threats.”
What an L. I don't think Putin is long for this world, brehs. Folks tooling up and saying they not going to commit suicide in Ukraine. Only a matter of time before somebody close to the Russian Fuhrer realizes that the situation is no longer tenable and takes action.
Can't wait.
