Mass murder at the training ground in the Belgorod region could be part of a conflict on religious grounds, writes the Astra Telegram channel with reference to a soldier who calls himself an eyewitness to what happened.
The Insider, citing a telegram channel, writes that shortly before the incident, Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Lapin said that Allah is a coward, since the Muslims do not allow Muslims to fight for the country where you swore. The authors of the material emphasize that at the time of publication they could not independently confirm the identity of either the narrator himself or the personality of other persons appearing in the story.
“It all started with the fact that some of our soldiers -Dagestan, Azerbaijani and Adygean said that” this is not our war “and tried to write reports that they did not want to serve anymore. Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Lapin when he already found out. Through the company commander, he collected everyone and began to say that “this is a sacred war,” says the narrator, whose name is not called security.
According to him, having heard of the “sacred war,” Muslims were indignant, as this “means the war of Muslims with the infidels.” Then Lapin called Allah a coward. This was the main reason for the further conflict, says the narrator, many were taken aback when they heard such a statement from the lieutenant colonel.
After an hour and a half, everyone was sent to the shooting range, three natives of Tajikistan deployed machine guns and shot Lapin, who died on the spot. After that, they opened random shooting. According to the narrator, he saw 30 dead, including Lapin. Two shooters were also killed, the third managed to escape.
The military also notes that the shooting that opened were supporters of their faith and repeatedly conflict with the command for not allowing them to make prayers on time and did not allocate a prayer room.