In Russia, army recruitment offices targeted by attacks

In the Siberian night, images show a Molotov cocktail attack. The author lines up the homemade bombs, methodically. The target is symbolic: it is a recruitment office of the Russian army. Two suspects were arrested and remanded in custody for two months. This act of vandalism is not an isolated act. Since the beginning of what the Kremlin calls “the special operation“In Ukraine, the local press has identified twelve.

No precise information is given on the profile of the authors. So are they Russians protesting against the army or Ukrainian saboteurs, as the Russian authorities claim? One thing is certain, the army needs men and not everyone is ready to go to the front. Alexey, a reservist, preferred to leave the country rather than be called up to fight. “I don’t want to die in this war“, testifies the one who has been in exile since May 9.