11 were killed and 15 wounded in a Russian military training camp after two gunmen opened fire on a group of volunteers preparing to fight in Ukraine, Reuters reported, citing RIA Novosti. The dead were volunteers from the Bryansk region. The attackers were also part of the group of volunteers, two citizens of Tajikistan. According to several sources, the death toll has already risen to over 20.
The accident occurred on the territory of the test site in the village of Soloti, near Belgorod. The Russian news agency quoted a statement from the Moscow Defense Ministry alleging that the two attackers were killed after the attack in the Belgorod region of southwestern Russia, near the border with Ukraine. The ministry said the attackers were from a former Soviet republic, but did not provide further details. Military journalists point out that the killers were Tajiks.
“During training shootings with people who volunteered to participate in the special military operation, the terrorists opened fire with small arms at unit personnel,” the ministry announced. However, according to military correspondents, the incident occurred in the morning, not during a shooting practice. The attackers opened fire until the remaining volunteers were disarmed.
The murder took place at the Soloti training camp, where mobilized people constantly complain of threats, fraud and theft. Although the Russian Defense Ministry declared the case a terrorist attack, reports suggest the killers may have had other motives.
In recent weeks, the Soloti village unit has made headlines several times. In early October, SOTA wrote that more than 100 conscripts transferred here from the Bryansk region refused to be sent to Liman. They asked to be sent to the border of the Bryansk region, as promised during the mobilization. According to the publication, as a result, the unit command managed to convince only about twenty people to go to the front.
On Saturday, a video appeared in which relatives of people mobilized from the city of Fokino, in Bryansk, appealed to Putin to take their relatives back to Russia. According to the women, at the Soloti training camp, the mobilized people were threatened and their superiors robbed them. “The whole organization of the mobilization was initially wrong. The situations are such that they were thrown into the occupied territories without preparation,” said one of the women.
In 2017, a military camp and training camp of the 752nd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division of the Western Military District was built in the village of Soloti. This is military unit # 34670. After February 24, he sent conscripts to fight on the territory of Ukraine. This is not the first incident in this division. In 2020, a conscript hanged himself next to Unit No. 34670. In May 2021 a contract soldier from this unit was found dead and a month and a half later another died.
