Mobilized Camp Burns Down Near Orenburg

This is not the first fire in a tent camp of the mobilized in the Russian Federation.

On the morning of January 9, in the training unit near Orenburg, a tent camp of mobilized soldiers caught fire. One of the conscripts blamed drunken officers for the fire, «7×7» reports.

The unit is located in the village of Nizhnyaya Pavlovka. The fire engine on duty there turned out to be "without pressure", the mobilized man said. Therefore, the military had to wait for firefighters from the city.

The fire burned down the tents of those mobilized from the Samara region. The father of one of them said that his son was not inside: he was returning to his unit from vacation. His family assumes that all the things that were bought for him before and after the shipment burned down.

"Everything burned down, a guy jumped out in shoes [from the tent], in socks. By the time the second [fire engine] has arrived, [the tent] is already burning down here," an eyewitness to the fire said in the video.

This is not the first fire in the tent camp of the mobilized. On January 4, a tent camp caught fire in Cheryomushki, Omsk Region. The video from there was published by the Tomsk mobilized men. According to them, three tents and their personal belongings burned down. The governor of the Omsk region, Alexander Burkov, said there were no casualties.

Later, the head of the region named the possible cause of the fire. According to him, the tents could catch fire from a spark from a stove that heated one of them. The servicemen had their passports and military IDs restored, as well as given new clothes and uniforms to replace those burned down, the governor said.

In recent weeks, the number of dead Russians at gathering points for the mobilized has been growing, the BBC Russian Service and Mediazona calculated. According to them, at least 39 mobilized died in Russia.

Over the past two weeks, three cases of death in the centers for training mobilized soldiers in Russia are known, journalists estimated. Most often, the cause of death of conscripts in units is heart problems, accidents, or alcohol abuse.

The publications rely on confirmed death reports, so the data does not reflect the real level of losses of the Russian army. On January 6, they managed to confirm the death of 11,009 soldiers and officers. Of these, 539 people are those newly mobilized.