Man sets himself on fire in Russia’s Ryazan to escape mobilization
The ambulance team that arrived at the scene provided first aid to the victim (Photo:Video screenshot from markito0171/Twitter)
A man set himself on fire in the city of Ryazan, Russia, to escape mobilization and having to go to war in Ukraine, local Telegram users reported on Sept. 26.
The incident reportedly occurred near the city’s central bus station.
According to eyewitnesses, the man started shouting that he did not want to go to war in Ukraine, after which he set himself on fire.
At the same time, none of the eyewitnesses even tried to help the man who was on fire.
The ambulance team that arrived at the scene provided first aid to the victim. Police officers also arrived at the scene.
Today’s incident turned out to be not the only one related to Russians’ dissatisfaction with the Kremlin regime’s decision to send them to war.
A 25-year-old reservist reportedly shot a military commissar in Irkutsk Oblast to disrupt the mobilization.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin early on Sept. 21 declared a partial mobilization in Russia and his readiness to use nuclear weapons in the event of a “threat to the territorial integrity” of Russia.
Later Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that 300,000 reservists would be called up during the partial mobilization. He estimated Russia’s mobilization resource at almost 25 million people.
After the announcement, Russians began to buy tickets abroad en masse to avoid participation in their country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In turn, the Kremlin’s puppet in Chechnya, warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he was not going to mobilize locals as the republic had already “surpassed the target” for providing soldiers for the Kremlin’s war.
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