Shocking video from Russia: Conscript set himself on fire at a bus station because he did not want to fight in Ukraine

In the city of Ryazan, located 185 kilometers south of Moscow, a conscript man set himself on fire and began shouting that he did not want to go to the front, local websites YA62.ru and “Novaya Gazeta. Ryazan”.

The newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Europe published the relevant video of the self-immolation. The video shows the man walking out into the bus parking area and dousing himself in an unknown liquid and then lighting himself up.

“He was standing on the street, where the buses are. As soon as he started to burn, he started laughing and shouting that he does not want to participate in the special military operation in Ukraine. His clothes were completely burnt. The police ran, put him in an auxiliary area, the first aid came and took him away”, writes the website YA62.ru according to APE – MPE.

The newspaper NovayaGazeta. Europe writes that the man, who according to the first information suffered burns on 90% of his body, continued to shout “I don’t want to go to the front” when the doctors took him.

Also in town today Ust-Ilimsk of the Irkutsk region there was an exchange of fire at the enlistment office. Among the wounded is the head of the recruiting office, who is in intensive care and his condition is considered extremely serious. The shooter was arrested. According to the Telegram channel of the Baza website, this is 25-year-old Ruslan Zhinin, a resident of the city and unemployed. As the Mash website writes, he started shooting when the military commissar Yelisheev was giving instructions to the conscripts.

Since the start of the war, about twenty incidents of arson of conscription offices and government buildings in various regions of Russia have become known. As soon as “partial conscription” was announced, arson became more frequent.

According to the calculations of the Mediazona website, 54 conscription offices and administrative buildings have been set on fire since the beginning of the war in Russia, while 17 cases of arson occurred in the last five days after the conscription was announced.