Eleven Russian soldiers killed in mass shooting by fellow volunteers during training

The Guardian ^ | 15 October 2022 | Piotr Sauer

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At least 11 people were killed and 15 more wounded at a military training ground in the Belgorod region in south-western Russia on Saturday when two volunteers opened fire on other troops, the Russian defence ministry has said.

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According to Baza, a Russian news site with close ties to the police, the shooting took place at 10am local time during shooting practice.

Saturday’s mass shooting points to growing tensions among Russia’s troops, issues that have plagued its army since the start of the war.

The incident also comes as tens of thousands of newly drafted Russian men are sent to Ukraine, in what has become a highly unpopular move ordered by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in an attempt to halt Ukrainian advances.

The hasty mobilisation drive has caused anger across the country and triggered an exodus of hundreds of thousands of Russians unwilling to participate in the war.

At a press conference in the Kazakhstan capital of Astana on Friday, Putin said that 16,000 mobilised troops were already fighting in Ukraine, and that 222,000 Russians had already been called up.

According to local reports, more than 20 newly mobilised soldiers have already been killed fighting in Ukraine.

Multiple videos have also emerged that showed scores of men being subjected to poor conditions at training centres as they waited to be sent to Ukraine, while some of the deaths at Russia’s mobilisation centres have also indicated severe issues with morale.

During training, one man at a military base near St Petersburg fatally shot himself. Another in Siberia reportedly cut his own throat in a mess hall.

In a video address to Putin published on Saturday, a group of mothers of

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Save Russian lives, get Putin to leave Ukraine and end this war.

Btw the Russian government news TASS reported this too.

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Andrei Nikiforov, a lawyer from St Petersburg, was one of the hundreds of thousands of Russians mobilised since last month to hold the frontlines in his country’s faltering war in Ukraine.

On 25 September he received his call-up papers. By 7 October, just two weeks later, he was dead.

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“Alexei Martynov, a 28-year-old employee of the Moscow government, was mobilised on 23 September, his father said. His death was confirmed on 10 October. “My son has died, what am I for?” he wrote in a post on 13 October. “We don’t know anything more than what was put on the internet,” he told the Observer.

Old photographs from Victory Day in 2016 showed Martynov in army uniform, two months after completing his mandatory service. According to Natalya Loseva, the deputy editorial director of the RT television channel, he had served in the Semyonovsky regiment, whose main activities are ceremonial.

“He had no combat experience,” Loseva wrote in an angry post last week that made Martynov the highest-profile death yet from the wave of mobilisation. “He was sent to the front within just a few days. He died heroically on 10 October.””

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Putin is destroying Russia

[Long Jon No Silver]

Don’t gloat. This kind of thing happened at Fort Hood

[Long Jon No Silver]

How many U.S draftees copped a bullet after a few weeks in Vietnam. Got any stats?

[canuck_conservative]

really sad

Russia already has more land than any other country on Earth, but for some reason, insists on stealing this extra 0.01% from another country

we notice Putin and his crony buddies aren’t doing any fighting or suffering, they’re still living it up

[dennisw]

What a Russian mess! Too much vodka, perhaps.

[cranked]

“The Nazi command has deployed Right Sector units to prevent the Ukrainian Armed Forces from retreating from Artemivsk (Bakhmut). Up to 200 Right Sector fighters have been deployed in this direction and have been ordered to stop the retreat of units of the 93rd Army Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces”

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/14075

[jerod]

Well... It could be worse... It could be World War II where you had two choices... Fight and die... Or... Just die.

Another example of generation ‘W’ for wimpy, formerly referred to as the ‘millennials’. The good news... They’ve given up their fear of Covid.

[Wilhelm Tell]

I don’t think it is gloating to make note of the hardship Putin is inflicting even on his own country.

[NorseViking]

What is this story supposed to prove?

[Long Jon No Silver]

Canadians have more land than Russians. Each canadian gets twice as much space as a Russian

[Long Jon No Silver]

Putin didn’t inflict this on Russia’s soldiers. Muslim nutcases inflicted it on Russian soldiers. I don’t think muslim nutjobd should be celebrated in anyway. No matter who they kill. It gives them ideas

[Organic Panic]

Sources say

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[Neo-Nazi Fascism] “The NY Times Does NOT Want Us To Know Their History”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6uHTEDTteE

[BobL]

“Putin is destroying Russia”

Glad you’re so concerned about Russia, but without a link I could write fiction about Ukrainian atrocities just as easily as you can do it.

[canuck_conservative]

and Canada isn’t trying to annex new land by invading other sovereign countries

[vladimir998]

You mean Ukrainians are now doing to Ukrainians what Chechens have been doing to Russians and Buryats for months already?

[ransomnote]

In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Eleven Russian soldiers killed in mass shooting by fellow volunteers during training , cranked wrote:

[Neo-Nazi Fascism] “The NY Times Does NOT Want Us To Know Their History”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6uHTEDTteE

Good link, cranked.

In 2019, the New York Times described the Azov Battalion as, "a Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary organization."

In 2022, the New York Times simply describes the Azov Battalion as 'celebrated' and shows 'heartwarming' reunion pics. The NYT lowered their standards to accept fascism again, after their previous descent into the trash can during WWII.

THEN: 2019

NOW: 2022

[cranked]

Neo-Nazism is en vogue now, just ask the DoD, Pentagon, the BidenIdiot dementia-ridden White House, State Department, various Bollywood figures, the Left, the Woke, the NEOCONs, etc.

Truth be told, always has been, that just removing their masks and not hiding it no more.....