Commissariat offices recruit servicemen to the Russian Army and choose who is eligible and ineligible for service.

The attacks were not a single coordinated campaign; and were led by a variety of people, from left-wing anarchists and scammers[9] to far-right groups and assorted lone wolf actors.

[10][11][12][13][14] In the Telegram channel "Oderint, Dum Metuant", the authors of which opposed the invasion of Ukraine and position themselves as a cell of the revived National Socialism / White Power, there were videos of some actions - on some unknown people set fire to cars with the letter Z, on others fires are visible in some buildings — the channel claims that supporters of the movement set fire to the warehouse of the "military facility", the police department and the military commissariats.

[187] In anonymous Telegram channels and on pro-Kremlin websites, allegations began to appear that the Security Service of Ukraine pays 30,000 rubles for setting fire to military commissariats, and this "must be filmed on camera".

[197] Two men — from Saint Petersburg and from Chernyakhovsk — were charged with "Intentional damage or destruction of someone else's property" under Article 167.