Several conscription offices in Russia have been attacked with Molotov cocktails, DPA reported, citing the Russian news website Shot.
The press center of the St. Petersburg City Hall received information about an arrested man who threw a bottle of incendiary liquid at the door of a recruitment center in the city. Footage purported to be of the attack was released online.
Since Saturday, there have been similar attacks in the cities of Podolsk, Severodvinsk, Kazan, Kaluga, Mozhaisk, Voronezh, Omsk and on the Crimean Peninsula, writes DPA.
According to the “Moscow Times” website, only yesterday there were such attacks in six cities.
In some cases, the perpetrators are elderly people, local media claim.
In St. Petersburg, a man threw a Molotov cocktail at the door of a military recruitment office. pic.twitter.com/Vs2r4oQSXu
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The “Shot” state reports on its channel in “Telegram” that a 76-year-old resident of the city of Severodvinsk received a call from Ukrainian phone scammers who convinced him that in the building of the military registration service there are persons “accused of high treason ” and that she should be burned, writes BTA.
On Saturday around 8:00 p.m., the pensioner drove his car to the place, took out a Molotov cocktail from the trunk and threw it through the window of the office, “Shot” also reports, citing its sources. The arson attempt was unsuccessful.
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