1/ The independent Russian media outlet ASTRA has published an interview with a claimed eyewitness of the mass shooting yesterday at a Russian army training facility. He says that the shooting arose from a dispute between Muslim and Christian soldiers. Translation below. ⬇️
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3/ ASTRA is not publishing the soldier's name, for the sake of his safety.
— ChrisO (@ChrisO_wiki) October 16, 2022
IMPORTANT: At the time of publication, we were unable to independently confirm the identity of either the narrator himself or the identities of others who appear in the story.
5/ Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Lapin, when he learned this through the company commander, gathered everyone and started to say that "this is a holy war." Everything happened in the morning at the parade ground, where the formation takes place, the anthem is sung.
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7/ Lapin said that "Allah must be a coward if he does not allow you to fight for the country to which you took an oath". I personally think that's what hurt the most, the phrase that "Allah is a coward".
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9/ After the formation, the Russians and Muslims continued the conflict, after which everyone dispersed and, it seems, calmed down.
— ChrisO (@ChrisO_wiki) October 16, 2022
11/ And they started shooting indiscriminately. At the range there were both contract servicemen and mobilised. I saw only the dead, of whom there were 29 people. The 30th is Lieutenant Colonel Lapin.
— ChrisO (@ChrisO_wiki) October 16, 2022
13/ Two or three minutes before the shooting started, we Muslims were told to step aside. I remember the names of the shooters: Bikzot - he is a senior sergeant, another - Anushe, and a third - junior sergeant Ami. I don't remember their [sur]names. Junior sergeant Ami got away.
— ChrisO (@ChrisO_wiki) October 16, 2022
15/ He also hit Ami in the shoulder, but Ami managed to escape. He crossed the wire where the fence was, it wasn't even a fence, but a bent wire - this is the place some people used to go into the city when it was impossible to get through the checkpoint.
— ChrisO (@ChrisO_wiki) October 16, 2022
17/ The Tajiks in particular [who opened fire] were fierce supporters of their faith. They were constantly arguing because they were not allowed to do namaz [prayers] on time and they were not given a prayer room," the young man said. /end
— ChrisO (@ChrisO_wiki) October 16, 2022
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