The military prosecutor’s office has arrested a conscript in Russia who beat his boss to death, reports magnitorsk.ru, a local news site in the Chelyabinsk region where the incident took place.

By the decision of the military court of the Magnitogorsk garrison, the second largest city in this region, located in the Ural Mountains, on the border of Europe and Asia, the man was taken into custody for two months.

The press service of the court reported on the arrest of the recruit on Wednesday.

According to the version of the Russian investigative bodies, on the evening of December 23, an intoxicated sergeant attacked his superior, an officer with the rank of captain, responsible for mobilization, in the compartment of a military train.

The commander died on the spot from his injuries, local media reported. The Russian military prosecutor’s office did not provide more details in the case.

However, we remind you that on December 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the request of his Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, to increase the number of Russian armed forces by hundreds of thousands of new soldiers.

However, it is not clear from the information published in the Russian press whether the incident was related to this event or whether the conscript had been mobilized earlier, on October 28, Șogiu announced that the mobilization process in Russia had ended.

In another alcohol-related incident, two drunken Russian soldiers opened fire on several FSB officers in the city of Kherson in June after they were reprimanded for drinking while wearing military uniform.

On November 9, the Russian army announced that it would leave the city of Kherson and the western bank of the Dnieper; the retreat was completed two days later.