Opposition to Putin's draft grows in Russia.

 

Opposition to Putin's call up of Russian citizens to fight in the Ukraine, is growing by the day. Hundreds of anti-war protestors have been arrested.

In Russia's Dagestan region, officers fired automatic weapons into the air to disperse angry crowds. Many people in Dagestan believe that a disproportionate number of ethnic people, are being called up to fight and die in the Ukraine.

In Ryazan, a man set himself on fire, in protest against the mobilization. In the Irkutsk region of Siberia, a man, who it's said, was angry at his friends conscription, shot a military draft officer, at close range, who was recruiting people to fight in the Ukraine. Before opening fire the man said: "Nobody is going to go anywhere."

As many believe that the Russian government is intending to ban Russian men of military age, from leaving the country, and could impose martial law, thousands of cars have lined up at Russian borders carrying young men who want to flee the country to escape the draft.

In a separate incident, a gunman with a swastika on his T-shirt, killed 13 people, including 11 children, at a Russian school in Izhevsk. It's believed that another 24 people have been wounded. The gunman was also shot dead. The authorities said that they were looking at the perpetrators suspected neo-Nazi links.