Sky News has verified a video of a shooting in an enlistment office in Irkutsk. In the video, a gunman fires a shot towards a podium and the people in the office can be seen fleeing, with a scream.
Live reporting by Dan Cairns and Jess Sharp, updates from Deborah Haynes in Zaporizhzhia and Alex Rossi and Diana Magnay in MoscowA hospital in Donetsk has been destroyed after being struck by a Russian rocket, Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs has said. , officials said the industrial region in the east of the country came under attack by 26 Russian strikes in just 24 hours.
It's in addition to mounting discontent at the draft - which was announced last week and seeks to add 300,000 people to the Ukraine war effort., and therefore won't have any short-term impact. Turkey, a traditional Russian ally, has confirmed it will not recognise the results of referendums being held in temporarily Russian occupied territories of Ukraine.
"We do not find unilateral referendum attempts correct, we do not recognise the Crimean referendum and the result held in 2014 before, and our position in such referendums is clear," he said. He added that Turkey is the"only country" making"sincere efforts and striving to end the war". He can then be seen lighting several Molotov cocktails, throwing them one by one at the entrance to the building.
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