- Today, At least 15 people were killed in a school shooting in Russia’s Izhevsk — among them 11 children and four adults. Furthermore, 24 people were injured — 22 children and two adults, reports Russia’s Investigative Committee. A man dressed in black stormed into the school during lessons, shot the security guard, and then went into a classroom and opened fire on children. The attacker shot himself. The Investigative Committee’s official Telegram channel posted a video, which allegedly shows the body of the shooter: the man is dressed in black, a red swastika is painted on his T-shirt.
- A drafted man set himself on fire and started screaming that he did not want to go to the front at a bus station in Russia’s Ryazan. Another man opened fire in a military enlistment office in the town of Ust-Ilimsk in the Irkutsk region of Russia. A third man set a military enlistment office on fire in the town of Uryupinsk, Volgograd region of Russia.
- Russia’s Federal Security Service announced that it was sending an armoured personnel carrier towards the Verkhny Lars checkpoint on the border with Georgia “in case someone attempts to break through the border checkpoint”. There are currently thousands of cars in line for the exit from Russia on the Russian-Georgian border, with thousands of Russian men running from mobilisation.
- FSB also reported that 261,000 men had left Russia after the announcement of “partial” mobilisation in the country, according to our source in the Presidential Administration. “The mood in the Presidential Administration is that the law enforcement and the Ministry of Defence will be able to convince Putin to close the borders before it’s too late,” the source said. Additionally, lists of men subjected to mobilisation were received by border crossing checkpoints in Russian airports, including those of Moscow; the controls of men of military age in accordance with the lists began, some of the men had already been prohibited from going abroad.
- Over 2,000 residents of Crimea that had served in Ukraine’s Armed Forces before 2014 and then been included in the Russian reserve troops were drafted for the war in Ukraine. At the same time, men drafted in Moscow reported to have been enlisted in the Moscow Territorial Defence Forces, which, according to Russian laws, are only created during martial law. Martial law has not been declared in Russia as of now.