​​Who is Ruslan Zinin? On September 26, 2022, Ruslan Zinin protested against the mobilization by opening fire at the military registration and enlistment office in the city of Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk Region. Ruslan wounded the head of the chief military officer at the moment when he was conducting an agitational and patriotic conversation with recruits. Ruslan's motive was to prevent the mobilization of his younger brother, who had been given a summons the day before. “Imagining for a moment that I would ever, God forbid, have to see my relative like this, I realized that I couldn’t live on, knowing that I hadn’t done anything to prevent this, and I was ready to rush with my bare hands under the tank for any of other brothers. I have three of them. Only in order not to see the grief and tears of relatives”, Zinin explained. It is known that earlier Ruslan spoke out against the war, and also worried about the death of his childhood friend, who was serving military service and died in the first days of a full-scale invasion. Ruslan is charged under article 317 of the Criminal Code — "Encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer." He faces 12 to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment. We consider such an accusation to be unfounded, since the article, although may apply to military personnel, but only if they are engaged in the protection of public order. The military officer in this case, obviously, was busy with a completely different matter. The military commissar, who received two wounds, remained alive and was discharged from the hospital a month and a half after the incident. Now Ruslan Zinin is in pre-trial detention centre. At the court, which extended the preventive measure until February 26, no one was allowed in, except for the mother. You can write a letter to Ruslan with words of support, as well as send parcels! ✉️📦 Address for letters and parcels to Ruslan: 664019, Irkutsk, st. Barricade, 63, SIZO-1, Zinin Ruslan Aleksandrovich born in 1997 📧 It is possible to send via the electronic service "FSIN-pismo" (sending from anywhere in the world, subject to payment by a Russian card) and the volunteer resource "Rosuznik" (sending from anywhere in the world and the ability to remain anonymous). 💰 Details of the fundraiser for paying a lawyer for Ruslan Zinin: ➡️ Collection on Tinkoff: https://www.tinkoff.ru/cf/AofEzDMswAO 💳 Card Tinkoff: 2200 7004 9169 4187 (Inna) 🪙 PayPal: solidarity_zone@riseup.net (marked «for Zinin»). 🥷 Cryptocurrency (be sure to write to us at solidarity_zone@riseup.net if you transfer the cryptocurrency to support Ruslan Zinin): Monero: 4B1tm6boA5ST6hLdfnPRG2Np9XMHCTiyhE6QaFo46QXp6tZ7Y6nJjE43xBBTwHM84bWwexR8nS4KH36JHujjc1kC8j2Mx5e Bitcoin: bc1qn404lrshp3q9gd7852d7w85sa09aq0ch28s3v4 Ethereum: 0x7CE361fA7dAb77D028eaEF7Bbe2943FDF0655D3E Other altcoins: https://nowpayments.io/donation/solidarityzone Solidarity Zone provides comprehensive assistance to Ruslan Zinin and his family. #english