Posted on 08/02/2023 7:28:26 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | New Direction of the Ukrainian offensive on the South | When the War is over?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc95kgk3xq4
The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 1st August 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-524-summary/
*** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/
Update from Ukraine | New Direction of the Ukrainian offensive on the South | When the War is over?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc95kgk3xq4
The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 1st August 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-524-summary/
*** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/
VIDEOS
1. Russia blitz on a Ukraine hospital killing a young Ukrainian doctor on his first day of work
The Sun
4.22M subscribers
Aug 2, 2023 5:00 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7NbHsp0Tjk
A YOUNG Ukrainian doctor was killed on his first day of work when Russia blitzed a hospital in frontline southern Kherson. Dmytro Bilyi, 25, died instantly in a suspected mortar blast. A female nurse standing next to him was left with life-threatening injuries and at least four other medics were wounded.
The Sun witnessed the gruesome aftermath with blood marks across two floors of the Yevhen Karabelesh City Hospital. The mortar hit a first floor operating theatre which was empty at the time. Witnesses said Dr Bilyi, an ear nose and throat specialist, was standing a few yards away and suffered multiple fatal shrapnel wounds. It was his first full day of work after completing an internship. Devastated colleagues said he was “delighted when he went to work that day”. Staff at the Zaporizhia State Medical University, where he had studied sicne 2015, said: “He was very kind, cheerful, he won hearts, always smiling.
“Dmytro studied well, dreamed of becoming a qualified doctor, and was delighted when he went to work that day.” His pal Serhii Marusian said he had followed his mother’s footsteps into medicine.
2. Russia Plunders Crimea: Human Rights Activists Go to Jail Every Day
UATV English
398K subscribers
Aug 2, 2023 9:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzjlFL5qDyM
Russian law enforcers demonstratively target Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars on the occupied peninsula. New cases of prison terms for imaginary crimes are announced daily. This report is about a group of Crimean Tatar activists repressed in Russian-occupied Crimea for allegedly ‘planning terrorist acts’ on the peninsula’s territory.
ARTICLE
Russia as an Antonym of Democracy
Ukrainska Pravda
Kostiantyn Rieutskyi - co-founder of the Vostok SOS NGO, soldier
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/columns/2023/07/29/7413214/
A warning for those who believe in the possibility of a democratic russia within imperial borders.
Many in the West still believe that a democratic russia can exist. They see russia as a like-minded and as a partner. Over the centuries, russia has consistently contradicted this notion with its actions, but dreamers remain unconvinced.
Let’s face the truth: a democratic russia is impossible.
The crux of the matter is that democracy would be a lethal dose of justice for an empire. And russia is an empire to the core. Where everything is based on lies and coercion. Russia cannot democratize without ceasing to be an empire, and therefore, would cease to be russia within the borders to which we are accustomed. Those who call for preserving the russia we know at all costs are, in fact, proposing to preserve all the injustice and lies it is based on. Essentially, they call for preserving the empire. An empire that declares war on the European civilization every time it has the strength to do so. Why again save those who seek to kill you?
The compromise-seekers are also mistaken. Compromises only benefit the empire. Limited democracy is not democracy. The experiences of the 1990s proved that a cautious democratization is just a respite for imperial forces. By investing too hesitantly in the “slow democratic progress of russia,” the West allowed new, even more stubborn imperialists to come to power. Now, the world is reaping the fruits of this approach, teetering on the edge of a precipice.
Don’t be deceived; you can’t make a wolf eat vegetables. Sure, decades of selection could significantly increase the proportion of plant-based food in the diet of these animals and alter their behavioral patterns, but they would then no longer be wolves. Similarly, clinging to the utopia of a democratized russia within its current borders is futile; they will be different. Injustice forms the foundation of russian imperial ideology and political practice. The ruling class of russia has always regarded honesty as a weakness and meanness as a virtue, fully exploiting and continuing to exploit these “competitive advantages.” This is how russia gained control over most of its current territories.
Over the past five centuries, russia increased its size by 52 times by conquering neighboring countries. For those who are used to believing russian officials who loudly deny Moscow’s bloody colonization, let’s look at the timeline. In the 16th century, russia conquered the Khanate of Kazan, Chuvashia, Mordovia, Udmurtia, Mari El, Bashkiria, the Astrakhan Khanate, the Nogai Horde, the Siberian Khanate, and six states in Siberia. In the 17th century, the empire captured Buryatia, the rest of Siberia and the Far East of russia, and Left-Bank Ukraine. In the 18th century, russia took over part of present-day Kazakhstan, Altai, Ingria, Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus, Southern, Central, and a part of Western Ukraine, the Crimean Khanate, the Aleutian Islands, and Alaska. In the 19th century, it seized Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Circassia, Dagestan, Chechnya, the rest of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Bessarabia, Finland, and parts of Poland.
In the 20th century, it captured the rest of Ukraine, Belarus, and East Prussia.
These conquests were usually brutal, flooding the “new territories” in blood and burning all those who disagreed. They conquered not only with weapons, but also with “cunning”, making advantageous deals with “allies” which were soon brutally violated by the russians, and the other side of the agreement suddenly became the property of the empire.
The resources of the conquered territories were mercilessly exploited and to this day allow the metropolis Moscow to live at its pleasure and the ruling class to maintain its dominant position.
Russians like to induce guilt on Europeans for similar practices by Western empires, and Europeans, for some reason, fall for it despite having long learned from their own history. For russia, however, this remains a present-day political practice and, moreover, a vision of the future.
Inside the country, things are just as bad. russia does not belong to the russians, in the sense that the overwhelming majority of them are deceived by the ruling elite and forced to toil for them “for a bowl of soup”. Free elections do not exist in russia, and the government does not serve the interests of the people. Rights and freedoms are abolished. And it is forbidden for russians to participate in governance, influence policies, or even criticize the actions of the government. The few in power are exploiting all the country’s resources in their own interests.
This is not about inherent traits. Russians do not possess biological characteristics that force them to endure humiliation from the “boyars” and participate in the empire’s crimes. It is about the environment created by the government to control society across this vast and diverse territory. All the shocking and terrifying acts committed by russians in recent years are a result of the qualities created by this environment - state violence and deceit. It seems that due to cultural, religious, and economic contradictions within the various territories of the empire, this is the only effective governing tool. Only through brute force and deceit can the centrifugal forces inherent in the empire be held together.
Those who plan to democratize russia from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok are dreamers.
VIDEOS
1. 2 Aug: Finally! Ukrainians BREACH LAND CORRIDOR BETWEEN CRIMEA AND MARIUPOL WITH INGENIOUS TACTIC!
Divine Justice
161K subscribers
8-2-2023 7:00 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7dS2pnDtJQ
2. Russians Pushed Back for Vulhedar! 2 August 23 Ukraine Daily Update
Combat Veteran Reacts
290K subscribers
8-2-2023 2:00 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpIw8Hs_35w
Finland expects more Russian deserters after Russia tightens conscription laws
European Pravda,
Ukrainska Pravda
Wednesday, 2 August 2023, 22:33
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/2/7413957/
The Finnish Border Guard expects the number of people trying to flee Russia to go up after Russia tightened its conscription laws.
SOURCE: European Pravda, citing Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company
QUOTE from Jukka Lukkari, Deputy Commander of the Border Guard in South-Eastern Finland:
“Internal Russian processes might affect border traffic. The threat of illegal border crossings might grow, though we don’t expect a significant rise in border traffic.”
DETAILS:
Lukkari added that Finnish border guards were preparing for the possible changes at the border.
He also said that many changes had happened in Russia over the course of his service in the Finnish Border Guard, but “it’s always difficult to predict how [those changes] will play out at the border”.
Yle reported that 11 illegal crossings have occurred on Finland’s southeastern border so far this summer, of which seven were defectors from Russia to Finland.
BACKGROUND:
In July, Russia raised the age limit for conscription of men to 30, closed the border for persons that had been called up to the military commissariat, and increased the fine for failure to appear tenfold.
Restrictions on Russians entering Finland have been in place since September 2022 amid a wave of Russian mobilisation, and in July, the Finnish government further tightened these measures.
VIDEOS
1. 2 Aug: Russians Panic! Ukrainians CAPTURE TACTICAL HEIGHTS AND PUSH RUSSIAN TROOPS BACK!
Divine Justice
161K subscribers
Aug 2, 2023 6:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIf2_rfeTYs
2. Lukashenko VIOLATES NATO Border, Poland Reacts. Daily Wrap-up
UATV English
398K subscribers
8-2-2023 2:00 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14aJR9iFmAQ
Two Belarusian military helicopters crossed the Polish air border. It is not a mistake or an accident, but a deliberate provocation, the decision which was made at the highest level. Putin’s ideology is a disease of Russia. The dictatorial regime has ruled it for almost a quarter of a century and maintains the rating not with good deeds but with toxic propaganda and violence.
ARTICLE
Zelenskyy holds meeting on security in Zakarpattia and meets with Hungarian community
Ukrainska Pravda
OLEKSANDR SHUMILIN
Wednesday, 2 August 2023, 21:24
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/2/7413952/
On Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a meeting on the security and social situation in Zakarpattia.
SOURCE: Zelenskyy’s post
QUOTE:
“Strategic border issues for the region. Relocation of business and creation of new jobs in different communities of the region is an important area of work. Facilities for the rehabilitation of our warriors are the right projects. Many initiatives to develop the economy of Zakarpattia – those opportunities that have not been used for decades.”
DETAILS:
Zelenskyy said that “Zakarpattia will be one of the drivers of economic and social growth”. Later in his evening address, he said that he was “finishing the day in Berehove”, where he also met with the Hungarian community.
BACKGROUND:
In Zakarpattia, Zelenskyy held a meeting with the heads of foreign diplomatic missions, where he said that as of 2 August, 12 countries had already joined the G7 joint declaration on the so-called security guarantees for Ukraine.
VIDEOS
1. The History of Bakhmut: Russia Repeats Nazi Genocide Tacktics
UATV English
398K subscribers
Aug 2, 2023 4:00 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOpG7kGEgqc
Early summer 2022, the Russian military had already shelled the eastern outskirts of Bakhmut. But since the beginning of August, these shellings have intensified and turned into an assault on the city. So far, Bakhmut remains one of the hottest spots in Russia’s war against Ukraine. And in 1942 Bakhmut became a place of mass extermination of the civilian population, in particular Jews.
In 2023, parallels are being drawn between the genocide committed then by the Nazis and now by the Russian military. The story of Bakhmut citizens shows that the city has a hard past, but a bright future. How Russian occupiers repeat Nazi crimes and the story of indestructible city.
2. Ukrainian Landmine Destroy a Rare Russian Vehicle That Hindered Counteroffensive
U.S. Defense News
125K subscribers
Aug 2, 2023 6:00 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6jo7kgn_rg
As Ukrainian forces slowly push ahead with their 2023 counteroffensive after more than a year of shifting battle lines, the country’s military and civilians face a deadly problem: land mines, potentially hundreds of thousands of them, scattered across roads, buried in fields, and concealed in devastated cities. The success of the Ukrainian Army destroyed another exciting piece of Russian military equipment – a modified BTR-80 armored personnel carried with a UMZ remote mine-laying system installed on top.
ARTICLE
Wagner Group continues to recruit mercenaries in Russia despite Prigozhin’s statements
Ukrainska Pravda
OLEKSANDR SHUMILIN
Wednesday, 2 August 2023, 21:08
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/2/7413951/
Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) continues to recruit mercenaries in Russia, despite the statement of its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin about the termination of recruitment, with Africa being the main destination for the trained militants.
SOURCE: Important Stories, a Russian media outlet
DETAILS: The journalists found messages in the chat rooms saying that Wagner Group would resume recruiting mercenaries in August.
One former mercenary, who has already fought in Africa and Ukraine, told the media outlet that recruitment has resumed through the Orthodox sports club Desantnyk (Paratrooper) in Omsk and one of the PMC points in Novosibirsk.
When the correspondent tried to get into the new “wave” of recruitment under the guise of a mercenary, the Omsk Desantnyk refused him, but the Novosibirsk veteran organization Power Unity of Siberia, which is the official representative of the PMC, said that the new recruitment takes place on Fridays.
The journalist was offered to come to the office in sneakers and a sports uniform and pass a physical fitness test. In addition, representatives of the Wagner Group warned him that the candidate should not have a criminal record, chronic diseases and arrears on the Federal Bailiffs Service.
IN ADDITION, a potential Wagner mercenary must have a military specialty and a foreign passport since the main direction of recruitment is African countries.
Another mercenary, with whom the correspondent spoke, said that recruitment centres determine the work directions of militants after the selection.
During the conversation with the recruiter, the correspondent was offered to go to the “Special Military Operation zone” without signing a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry from the Redut PMC, associated with Gazprom. [Special Military Operation is a Russian propaganda term for the war in Ukraine – ed.]
BACKGROUND:
-On 31 July 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner PMC terrorists, stated that the company had stopped recruiting new mercenaries.
-On the evening of 23 June, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner PMC, said that the Russian regular army launched a missile strike on the rear camps of his PMC, and because of this, 25 thousand mercenaries are going to “restore justice”.
-On 24 June, Wagner mercenaries took the military facilities of Rostov-on-Don under control, captured military facilities in Voronezh, went “to Moscow – and the Russian capital was already prepared for the defense.
-In the evening of the same day, after a conversation with the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, Prigozhin said that his mercenaries were returning to the field camps.
-The FSB reported that the criminal case of armed mutiny against Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner PMC, had been terminated.
VIDEOS
1. ‘Russia Will Feel Us Strike Back’ – Zelenskyy’s Address
UATV English
398K subscribers
Aug 2, 2023 7:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edlQ_Ae8-Zo
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his evening address, spoke about inevitable strikes of the Ukrainian forces at the Russian-occupied territories on the warehouses and command centres of the invading army. The President separately thanked soldiers of different Ukrainian regiments that protect our country on the front line. Most of the people he noted were soldiers, not officers. Watch the full address by President Zelenskyy in our video.
2. Are Sanctions Tearing Russia Apart? Unemployment Crisis in Russia
UATV English
398K subscribers
Aug 2, 2023 11:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXsjBsumjfM
Kremlin officials continue to lie to their population about the low unemployment rate. Meanwhile the only possible instrument left to find a dream job in Russia is praying.
According to official data, the unemployment rate in the Federation fell to 3.2 per cent in May 2023. At the same time, according to the Financial Times, by October 2022, 1.12 million employees were working part-time, 240,000 were idle, and 3.3 million were on unpaid leave.
This situation already makes professional auto mechanics become farmers and cleaners. How world sanctions made Russia drawn in unemployment and why this brings the aggressor country closer to a break up – watch in our video.
ARTICLE
Baltic nations agree to disconnect from Russian power grid
Share
Kyiv Independent
Abbey Fenbert
August 3, 2023 2:23 AM
https://kyivindependent.com/baltic-nations-disconnect-from-russian-power-grid/
The operators of the electricity systems of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia signed an agreement on Aug. 2 to disconnect from the Russian power system and synchronously connect to the European grid, the Lithuanian Energy Ministry announced.
The disconnection and synchronous connection is set to take place in February 2025.
The nations had previously agreed to join the European continental power system by the end of 2025, but decided to move the deadline up by nearly a year in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Since the beginning of the Russian full-scale war against Ukraine, the risks associated with the energy security of the Baltic States have significantly changed,” the Lithuanian Energy Ministry said.
The heads of Litgrid, AST, and Elering, the Baltic states’ electricity operators, signed an agreement committing to the new deadline and agreeing to complete necessary work by the agreed date. This includes installing synchronous condensers and reconstructing a power line between Estonia and Latvia.
The agreement also states that the three nations will withdraw from the Russian-controlled BRELL (Belarusian, Russian, Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian) system by the summer of 2024, six months before synchronization.
The prime ministers of the three Baltic states are expected to ratify the agreement in the coming days.
VIDEOS
1. Heavy battle for Staromaiorske | Military Mind | TVP World
TVP World - TVP is a Polish public broadcast service.
403K subscribers
8-2-2023 4:00 p.m. EDT Premiered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKbjna0NXF4
2. Ukrainian Armed Forces oust Russian invaders from positions near Andriivka
Kanal13
1.59M subscribers
8-2-2023 11:30 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKcxc5gZ50g
ARTICLE
Report: Half of Ukrainians held by Russians in Kherson Oblast tortured
Kyiv Independent
Sofiya Tryzub-Cook
August 3, 2023 12:20 AM
https://kyivindependent.com/report-half-of-ukrainians-held-by-russians-in-kherson-oblast-tortured/
Nearly half of Ukrainians held in Russian detention facilities in the liberated parts of Kherson Oblast were tortured when the territory was under Russian occupation, with many also being subject to sexual violence, according to a report compiled by Western lawyers and published on Aug. 2.
Ukrainian troops liberated the city of Kherson and the part of the region on the right bank of the Dnipro River in November 2022. The part of Kherson Oblast on the left bank remains under Russian occupation.
The report was prepared by the Mobile Justice Team, which had been set up by human rights firm Global Rights Compliance to support Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office.
The lawyers identified an initial pool of 320 cases of detention in Kherson Oblast, spread across more than 35 identified detention centers.
Russian guards subjected at least 43% of the victims, including male and female prisoners, to torture practices in detention centers, which often involved sexual violence, the report reads.
Preliminary findings indicate that military personnel were most vulnerable to torture in these centers, and individuals with military families were also targeted.
According to the report, at least 36 victims mentioned the use of electrocution during interrogations, often involving genital electrocution by Russian guards.
Other victims reported threats of genital mutilation, and at least one witnessed the rape of another detainee using a foreign object covered in a condom.
“In relation to men, the majority of crimes is sexualized torture, and that’s usually torture of genitalia so that’s a form of punishment and kind of precludes them from having children,” said Anna Mykytenko, senior legal adviser and Ukraine country manager for Global Rights Compliance.
The report reveals that Russian guards in the Kherson torture chambers commonly employed techniques such as suffocation, waterboarding, severe beatings, and threats of rape against victims.
Wayne Jordash, managing partner and co-founder of Global Rights Compliance, stated that the torture and sexual violence tactics uncovered in Kherson detention centers suggest a range of crimes evocative of genocide in Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s plan to extinguish Ukrainian identity.
Mykytenko believes that some of the patterns observed in Kherson could eventually be classified as genocidal, but she acknowledges that proving such claims is difficult and requires further investigation.
On July 17, an investigation by the Associated Press found that thousands of Ukrainian civilians are detained in a network of formal and informal prisons across Russia and Russian-occupied territories, where they endure psychological abuse, torture, and slave labor.
Indications of torture and sexual and psychological abuse have been discovered in multiple regions across Ukraine, including Izium, Bucha, Mariupol, Melitopol, Kharkiv, and others.
On Aug. 2, Yurii Bielousov, the head of the War Crimes Department of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office, stated that his team had recorded 98,000 war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.
Despite overwhelming evidence, Russia has consistently denied accusations of torture and human rights abuses in Ukraine.
Russian officials have not yet commented on this report.
“Finland expects more Russian deserters”
They would be wise to thoroughly sort them out lest their number include “Little Green Men”.
VIDEOS
1. Ukrainian aviation brigade unleashes artillery supply during flight
The Sun
4.22M subscribers
8-2-2023 5:00 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-AvOYqgp0E
2. Ukrainian forces destroy tank Russian forces were trying to recover from the battlefield
The Sun
4.22M subscribers
Aug 2, 2023 5:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJ4haa0SWQ
This footage released by the 53rd Mechanised Brigade of Ukraine reportedly shows Ukrainian forces destroying a tank that Russian forces were attempting to recover from the battlefield.
“Over the past five centuries, russia increased its size by 52 times by conquering neighboring countries. For those who are used to believing russian officials who loudly deny Moscow’s bloody colonization, let’s look at the timeline. In the 16th century, russia conquered the Khanate of Kazan, Chuvashia, Mordovia, Udmurtia, Mari El, Bashkiria, the Astrakhan Khanate, the Nogai Horde, the Siberian Khanate, and six states in Siberia. In the 17th century, the empire captured Buryatia, the rest of Siberia and the Far East of russia, and Left-Bank Ukraine. In the 18th century, russia took over part of present-day Kazakhstan, Altai, Ingria, Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus, Southern, Central, and a part of Western Ukraine, the Crimean Khanate, the Aleutian Islands, and Alaska. In the 19th century, it seized Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Circassia, Dagestan, Chechnya, the rest of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Bessarabia, Finland, and parts of Poland.
In the 20th century, it captured the rest of Ukraine, Belarus, and East Prussia.”
~
Give back Siberia to China
“Finland expects more Russian deserters
They would be wise to thoroughly sort them out lest their number include “Little Green Men”.”
VERY TRUE.
Putin used the same strategy in Ukraine that he had used in Georgia totally expecting the same results.
As similar to Ukraine, The Republic of Georgia had declared its independence in early 1991 as the Soviet Union self-destructed. The Ga/Putin military fighting took place in the strategically important South Caucasus region. The important mineral mines and manufacturing of Ukraine were coveted by Putin.
Putin had actually been emigrating Russian citizens into the Donbass region: LNR and DNR of Ukraine.
Like Ukraine, political in-fighting developed between Georgia and wanna-be separatists created former South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast under Putin-backed but internationally unrecognized separatists control.
These Putin-backed self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia region had started their war shelling Georgian villages in August after negative political relations had developed further between Russia and Georgiain
This Putin GA invasion war in Georgia lasted 5 days, August 7–12, 2008 and is regarded as the first European war of the 21st century.
ARTICLE
Attacks on enlistment offices in Russia: 28 buildings set on fire in 5 days
Ukrainska Pravda
STANISLAV POHORILOV
Wednesday, 2 August 2023, 17:11
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/2/7413910/
Between 29 July and 2 August, Russian citizens have tried to set military enlistment offices and other facilities connected to Russia’s Defence Ministry on fire at least 28 times, both in Russia and occupied Crimea. This is the largest attack on military enlistment offices since mobilisation was announced in Russia in September 2022.
SOURCE:
Russian independent media outlet Meduza
DETAILS:
Meduza estimates that most of the arson attacks were committed in the cities of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kazan, and in the city of Podolsk, with the same military enlistment office being set on fire twice.
Attempts to set enlistment offices on fire have also been made in the settlements of Severodvinsk, Mozhaisk, the village of Aginskoe in Zabaykal Krai, in the settlement of Rososh in Voronezh Oblast, in the cities of Omsk, Kopeisk and Verkhnouralsk (Chelyabinsk Oblast), in the settlement of Volsk (Saratov Oblast), and in the cities of Kaluga and Ulan-Ude.
In many cases, the arsonists claimed that they were deceived by scammers who introduced themselves as members of the Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB).
Many of those arrested therefore believe that by setting military enlistment offices by fire they were helping to catch real criminals.
BACKGROUND:
On 31 July, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin increased fines for failure to appear at a military enlistment office when summoned without a valid reason, and for not providing information to the military enlistment office.
“Enemy flags will never reign on our land, and our people will never be enslaved. The resilience in the battles, the power in our actions, the bravery and precision of our warriors is Ukrainian independence that will be permanent, that we are strengthening and will continue to do so.” ~ President Zelenskyy
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.