Monday 26 September 2022 08:50 AM Gunman opens fire in Russian conscript office amid fury at Ukraine war trends now
A gunman has opened fire inside a Russian military enlistment office in the far-eastern city of Irkutsk, leaving the chief military recruiter in critical condition.
Dramatic footage captured the moment the man walked up to the recruiter has he stood on stage in front of new conscripts and fired a single shot at point-blank range while shouting: 'Nobody is going to fight!'.
The man - identified as Ruslan Zinin, 25 - was angry after his friend got called up to the army and had told his mother that he was going to the recruitment office to enlist voluntarily, according to local reports.
Igor Kobzev, the governor of the Irkutsk region, said military commissar Alexander Eliseev was in 'critical condition' after the attack and that the shooter was arrested at the scene 'and will definitely be punished.'
It comes as opposition to Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine grows after he gave the order to start conscripting men into the military, with protests taking place across the country while an estimated 260,000 have fled across the border.
This is the moment gunman Ruslan Zinin, 25 (far left and second right), walked into a Russian enlistment office in Irkutsk and shot military commissar Alexander Eliseev (second left)
It is thought Zinin has been charged with attempted assassination of a public official, which carries a potential life sentence.
Protests against Putin's draft order have been most-pronounced in the southern Dagestan region, which borders Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Women have been filmed clashing with police in an attempt to stop men being dragged away into force conscription.
They chanted: 'No to war' and 'Shame on You'.
In one video, a woman is heard saying: 'Don't let them take our men.'
A police officer accuses a man due for mobilisation: 'Hey you, why are you hiding behind a woman's back?'
The women redoubled their efforts to stop the men being forced into Putin's army.
'Don't allow them to take…no!' they shouted. 'Let them go. Don't allow even one of them to be taken away. Don't allow them to be taken.'
Police shot into the air as protests were in danger of getting out of control in Dagestan, which has already suffered grievous losses in the war in Ukraine.
In Yakutia - coldest region in Russia - women staged a traditional dance encircling police in an anti-war protest after thousands of men have been taken into custody.
This comes amid claims that around 30 women protesters were forcibly stripped inside a police station at Brateevo in a 'classic torture technique'.
Zinin (left) was reportedly angry that his best friend had been conscripted to fight in Ukraine and had told his mother he was going to volunteer (right, conscripts flee for their lives)
Fury is growing in Russia over Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine after he gave the order last week to begin conscripting people into the military
The women reported the abuse to human rights defenders before their phones were confiscated.
A video shows a protesting grandmother hauled away by multiple heaving armed riot police from her protest close to the Kremlin.
Another shows a man preparing to desert the call up after finding he is expected to sleep on the floor.
'I came to [fight for] our Motherland, but I'm f***ing refusing,' said the man from Dagestan on a video.
'Just look at what's going on here.
'I am going home.
'No bed, no
