Sergeant fired from a machine gun during a conflict with colleagues in the Kherson region, writes RBCIt refers to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The publication explains that the incident occurred in the village of Knyaze-Grigoryevka. As a result, a deputy platoon commander with the rank of sergeant, who opened fire on his superior officer with an AK-74, was detained. During the confrontation, the lieutenant suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.
There is also another victim; A private who was hospitalized with an open wound in the supraclavicular area of his neck.
Military investigators are investigating the scene.
Before that, two deputies of the State Duma – Viktor Sobolev and Andrei Gurulev – proposed increasing the duration of military service from one to two years. According to them, such a step will make Russian troops “truly combat-ready”, since conscripts will spend part of their time in training units, and the rest directly in the troops. At the same time, the Ministry of Defense proposed to review the requirements for the health status of citizens declared unfit for military service. More details Material from socialbites.ca.
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