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Young Man Shoots Up Recruiting Station in Russia

Protests all over Russia increase threatening Putin’s hold on power

B Kean
5 min readSep 26, 2022
Courtesy of TASS

Less than one week (5 days) after Vladimir Putin declared “partial mobilization,” official statistics from the FSB, Federal Service for Security (Federal’naya Sluzhba Besopasnosti) state that 261,050 “men” have left Russia.

Today, one of those boys who didn’t leave, 25-year-old Ruslan Zinin hailing from “Nowhere, Russia” opened fire on an army sergeant hitting him in the back at point-blank range. Hit by one round from a sawed-off shotgun, the sergeant is not expected to live according to local authorities.

Social disorder is rapidly rising in Russia and each incident that occurs is sparking more brazen ones.

Since the mobilization order was given, six recruiting stations have been firebombed. The latest incident can be seen in the Telegram channel link given above. The protestor calmly lit about 10 Molotov cocktails and tossed them at the building setting it ablaze.

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While some men out there are committing acts of protest against the war, not many have proven to be brave enough to turn the tide yet. If the 261,000 had not left but instead taken to the streets to fight…

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B Kean
B Kean

Written by B Kean

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