In the village of Ivanteevka, Saratov region, unidentified people set fire to the military registration and enlistment office, according to the Baza Telegram channel.
A plastic bottle with gasoline and oil was thrown into the office of the officer on duty in the building of the military commissariat on Kooperativnaya Street. After the fire, law enforcement officers found its remains. The fire was extinguished before it moved to other premises. The office was badly damaged, the arsonists were not found.
As sources in the Ministry of Emergency Situations told Vzglyad-info, the building of the recruiting center was mothballed. The fire was extinguished on the evening of 22 December. Officially, the authorities and services did not comment on the incident.
The situation with mobilization in Russia remains unclear. On December 20, Vladimir Putin created a working group on mobilization preparation and mobilization. Two months earlier, he had said he would consult with lawyers about whether a decree was needed to complete the mobilization. At the same time, Putin assured that even without decrees, the mobilization was “definitely completed.” Shoigu also reported to Putin that the "partial" mobilization was over. However, lawyers in a conversation with The Insider refute this, recalling that without a decree to complete the mobilization, it can be continued at any time. In early December, several deputies of the Moscow City Duma decided to draw attention to the absence of a law. They demanded that Putin issue a corresponding decree, but the Moscow City Duma refused to register their appeal.
After the announcement of mobilization on September 21, military enlistment offices began to be set on fire in Russia. Dozens of videos and photos of burnt buildings of commissariats from different regions have been published on the network. In some cases, anonymous partisans take responsibility, information appears in the Telegram channel of the Rospartizan movement. However, sometimes Russians are detained for arson, who thus show their disagreement with the war and mobilization. For example, in Udmurtia, a court sentenced Ilya Farber, a former rural teacher, to 3 years and 2 months in a strict regime colony for setting fire to a military enlistment office and a recruiting office with a Molotov cocktail. And in October, an eleventh-grader in Kazan was sent under house arrest for a similar act. After being detained by the police, the girl declared that she opposed the war and mobilization.