A man can be seeing fleeing from the shooter
(Picture: Twitter)A Russian military recruiter has been shot after a man opened fire in a mobilisation enlistment office, according to reports.
Ruslan Zinin, 25, shouted “no one is going to fight” before firing a shot gun in the enlistment office in Ust-IIimsk.
The shooting is believed to have taken place in protest against the forced mobilisation of civilian reservists for the war in Ukraine.
Victim Aleksandr Yeliseyev, the chief local military recruiter, is in critical condition after he was pierced by the bullet. Mr Zinin has since been detained.
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Footage posted on social media shows others in the facility running away from the shooter. Several people can be heard screaming as the man opens fire.
It comes after Russian president Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilisation” last Wednesday, saying it was necessary because Russia was under attack by the West.
He promised only those with prior military experience would be drafted, and the defence minister said the army was seeking just 300,000 men.
But the decree published after his speech made no mention of the word partial and independent media outlets have reported a censored clause which allows the draft of up to a million men. The Kremlin has denied those reports.
Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets across the country in protest against the mobilisation drive.
Authorities have tried to suppress protests with riot police, and reports claim that 2,000 people had been arrested across the country since Wednesday.
The speakers of Russia’s upper and lower houses of parliament on Sunday acknowledged public disquiet but blamed the backlash on mismanagement by lower-level officials.
"Such excesses are absolutely unacceptable. And, I consider it absolutely right that they are triggering a sharp reaction in society," said Valentina Matvienko, the speaker of the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house.
