The school has been evacuated and the area has been cordoned off, the official said. No information has been given yet about who the attacker was and what was his motive.
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A gunman attacked a school in Russia on Monday morning, killing six people and injuring 20 others. The governor of the Udmurtia region, Aleksandr Brochalov, released a video saying an unidentified attacker broke into a school in Izhevsk, the capital of the region. He killed a security guard and some children present there. Brechalov said, ‘The victims include children. People have also been injured.
In the Russian school where the attack took place, students from classes 1 to 11 are taught. According to the governor and the local police, the gunman shot himself too. The school has been evacuated and the area has been cordoned off, the official said. No information has been given yet about who the attacker was and what was his motive. 640,000 people live in Izhevsk. It is located about 960 km east of Moscow, west of the Ural Mountains region of central Russia.
fresh start of war
Significantly, this incident has come to the fore at a time when Russia has renewed the war with Ukraine and has spoken of recruiting 3 lakh people in the army against Ukraine. Simply put, three lakh people will be mobilized in the army. These people to be mobilized will be those who already have experience of military work. Russia says that this step is necessary, so that the safety of people living in Russian-occupied areas can be ensured.
President Putin recently addressed the country through TV and told Western countries in a warning tone that Russia will take all possible steps to protect its region and this is not just rhetoric. Putin had said that the expansion of the border line, the constant shelling of Russian border areas by Ukrainian forces and the withdrawal of troops from the reserve were necessary for attacks on the liberated areas. A day before the Russian president’s address, the Russian-occupied territories of southern and eastern Ukraine announced that they would hold a referendum between September 23 and 27 to become an integral part of Russia.
After Putin’s address, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that 300,000 reservists would be called for partial deployment. A reserveist is a person who is a member of a ‘military reserve force’. It is the common citizen who is given military training and can be deployed anywhere if needed.
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