Two Russian volunteer soldiers opened fire on the rookie training field in Belgorod province, injuring 11 people and 15 injured.
During the shooting training on the afternoon of October 15, two citizens from a SNG country volunteered to participate in the special military campaign in Ukraine who took a terrorist action at the western military area in Belgorod province,
Russian reserve soldiers trained on the field in the Rostov region in early October. Photo: TASS.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said the two rookies used personal weapons to shoot at the teammates in the unit, killing at least 11 people and 15 injured.
Two rookies were shot down at the scene when the soldiers opened fire.
Oleksiy Arestovych, assistant of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, quoted intelligence sources that two suspects were shooting from Tajikistan.
Location of Belgorod province in western Russia, bordering Ukraine.
The shootings took place a day after President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia had mobilized more than 222,000 reserve soldiers and volunteer soldiers to participate in the military campaign and would end a part of the mobilization in the next two weeks.
This is the second shooting in Russia for more than a month, regarding a partial encouragement command.
The inadequacies in the first phase of executing the encouragement in part have caused a frustration in Russian public opinion, when many people reflect that they were summoned to enlist even though they were eligible for exemption, while some volunteers were not allowed to not be allowed.
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In the early days of deploying the command to encourage the Russian troops to exist many shortcomings, causing officials to warn the risk of social insecurity.
President Putin acknowledged that there were many problems in the process of implementing the reserve soldier's encouragement order and asked officials to fix it.
Many people were worried about the command of President Putin's troops, others said they were ready for the battle as patriotic obligations.