Two men opened fire on Saturday at Russian soldiers at a training site in Belgorod, near the border with Ukraine. The balance sheet reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense reports 11 dead and 15 injured.
The two assailants, described as coming from an unidentified state in the former Soviet Union, were killed by returning fire.
Also, according to a Russian Defense statement, the shooting occurred while soldiers were training to hit targets at the training base in southwestern Russia.
For Russia, this incident is considered “a terrorist attack”.
This shooting occurs in the middle of a major conscription operation ordered by President Vladimir Putin to support his campaign to invade Ukraine. This decision angered part of the population, as demonstrations took place in several places and hundreds of thousands of Russians fled the country.
On Friday, Vladimir Putin said that already more than 220,000 reservists had been mobilized out of a target of 300,000 soldiers.
Although the president had maintained that only people who had recently completed their military service would be conscripted, militant groups revealed that conscription agents had conscripted people without any experience and even people declared unfit to serve for medical reasons.
Some recently mobilized reservists have posted videos showing them being forced to sleep on the floor or even outside and being handed rusty weapons before deploying them to the front lines.
The Russian authorities acknowledged that the mobilization was sometimes poorly organized and promised to make improvements.
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