Trainees kill 11 wound others in Russia

 PJ Media:

Two draftees opened fire at a Russian military training ground near the Ukraine border, killing 11 and wounding 15. The shootings happened during a live-fire training exercise. The trainees opened fire with small arms before they were fatally shot.

The Russians say it was a terrorist attack. The two recruits were from one of the Commonwealth of the Independent States of former Soviet republics. Other than that, TASS has been close-mouthed about the suspects.

No motive for the attack was immediately given, although some ethnic minorities have become extremely resentful of Moscow because they believe the draft is falling disproportionately on their shoulders.

Wall Street Journal:

Resistance against the mobilization has become violent at times, with recruitment centers coming under attack. Last month, a Russian man opened fire at a military-recruiting station in Siberia, critically wounding its commander, hours after another man rammed a car into the entrance of a different recruitment center and then set it afire with Molotov cocktails.

The mobilization order has exposed resentment in Russia’s far-flung poorer regions which have been targets of recruitment drives and provided many of the front-line soldiers for the war, now in its eighth month.

There appears to be a desperation by Russia to find troops to fight in Ukraine and a corresponding desperation by some not to go there. 

See, also:

With a Chaotic Draft, Russia Sends Barely Trained Men to War

New recruits are already at the front in Ukraine, a growing chorus of reports says, fighting and dying after only days of training.

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