At least eleven mobilized Russians died and another 15 were injured as a result of a shooting caused by two foreign nationals in a military training camp from the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
“The two terrorists were annihilated with return fire“, the military entity said in a statement.
According to Defense, the attackers were originally from one of the ex-Soviet countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), although it did not specify which one.
“As a result of the shooting, 11 people received fatal injuries. Another 15 were hospitalized with injuries of varying degrees of severity, and they are given the corresponding treatment,” the Russian command said.
The police have already arrived at the scene of the events, a polygon of the Western Military District of the Belgorod region.
The Ministry of Defense indicated that in the training camp volunteers who expressed their desire to participate in the so-called “special military operation” were being prepared russian in ukraine.
Last September the President of Russia, Vladimir Putinannounced a partial mobilization to get the Russian military campaign in Ukraine out of the current quagmire, in which Russian forces have been pushed back and have lost vast territories in the east and south of the country.
According to the Defense Ministry, they will be called up around 300,000 reservistsjust over 1% of the total mobilization resource in Russia.
The call-up, which has already affected more than 200,000 people, has shocked the Russian population, sparking protests that have been repressed by the police and a mass exodus to neighboring countries such as Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia, among others.