On the night of June 24, military registration and enlistment offices were again set on fire in Russia, this time Molotov cocktails were thrown at military registration and enlistment offices in Belgorod and Perm . Baza reports .
In Perm, four Molotov cocktails were thrown into the building of the military commissariat for the Kirovsky District on Zakamskaya Street. Two of them were broken, two remained intact. According to the publication, there was no fire. The arsonists fled, they are being sought.
On the same night in Belgorod, the military registration and enlistment office was bombarded with Molotov cocktails, as a result, a table in one of the offices caught fire. The man broke the window of the military commissariat on the first floor and threw two Molotov cocktails into the 106th office. A fire broke out, the fire was extinguished after 6 minutes.
On May 21, a military enlistment office was set on fire in Russia for the 12th time: a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a recruiting station in the village of Igra in Udmurtia. On the night of May 20, the building of the military registration and enlistment office in the city of Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky, Irkutsk Region, was fired from pneumatic weapons. On suspicion of involvement in this shooting, the security forces detained a resident of Angarsk Maxim Smolin.
Attacks on military registration and enlistment offices are becoming more frequent amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and rumors about the preparation of mobilization. The first known case of arson of a military registration and enlistment office during the war occurred in Lukhovitsy, Moscow Region. There, on February 28, a 21-year-old local resident smashed windows in a building and threw Molotov cocktail bottles inside. In addition, the gates of the military commissariat were painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, and “a provocative record was left about the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,” the media wrote. The suspect was detained on March 8, and on the 13th he managed to escape from the police station. In the evening of the same day he was detained again. A criminal case was initiated against a local resident under Art. 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism). He faces a sentence of three years in prison.
There were similar attempts to set fire to military enlistment offices in Omsk , Balashikha, Yaroslavl, Nizhnevartovsk , Voronezh, Berezovsky, Shuya, Gukovo, Volgograd , the settlements of Zubova Polyana in Mordovia and Pronsk in the Ryazan region. In Penza and Ivanovo, unused buildings were burning, in which the commissariats were located in the past. On the night of May 8, in Cherepovets, two 16-year-old teenagers threw Molotov cocktails at the military registration and enlistment office building. The suspects were later arrested.
