On the afternoon of 26 September 2022 at 12:20 local time[1] (according to other sources - at 14:00)[2] Ruslan Zinin came to the draft board, went up to the assembly hall together with conscripts for mobilization.

[3] He went up to the military commissar Alexander Eliseev, said: "Now we'll all go home" and opened fire from a sawn-off shotgun, shot at point-blank range.

[6] On September 29, a video was published on the Telegram channel of the Governor of Irkutsk Oblast, Igor Kobzev, in which the head physician of the Irkutsk Regional Clinical Hospital, Pyotr Dudin, said that Eliseev was taken out of a medically induced coma, and his condition was assessed as serious but stable.

After Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the mobilization, Zinin's cousin, 21-year-old Vasily Gurov, received a summons to the draft board.

[11] Wounded as a result of the shooting, Alexander Vladimirovich Eliseev began serving in the Armed Forces in 1983.

[citation needed] The Investigative Committee of the ICR for the Irkutsk Oblast opened a criminal case against Ruslan Zinin under articles 317 (assault on the life of a law enforcement officer) and 222 (illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation, transfer or carrying of weapons, the main parts of firearms , ammunition) of the Criminal Code of Russia.