Jon Jackson
Newsweek
Yesterday 1:39 PM
As many as 12 military enlistment offices in Russia have been hit by arson attacks since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, according to several media outlets and a top Ukrainian official this week.
Oleksiy Gromov, Deputy Chief of the Main Operations Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on Thursday, said there had been at least 12 instances of arson at Russian enlistment offices since the war began in late February, including five in the past week. On Monday, The Moscow Times reported that three such attacks occurred over the weekend in southern regions of Russia.
The arson incidents follow recent fires in Russia at an aerospace research institute, a munitions factory and two oil depots. It also comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s military has suffered severe casualties. Russia’s last casualty data report was released in late March, and it listed that 1,351 Russian soldiers had been killed in Ukraine. Around the same time, NATO estimated between 7,000 and 15,000.
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