Footage shows gunman firing at official in Siberian city after saying ‘nobody is going to go anywhere’
A Russian man has shot the leader of the local military draft committee in a Siberian town after telling him he would refuse to fight in the war inThe incident took place in the city of Ust-Ilimsk, a town of about 85,000 people in the Irkutsk region in Siberia.
There are conflicting reports about whether the commandant, who also heads the local draft board, has died. Video showed him being carried from the building and placed on to a stretcher. He was not moving in the video.
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