Multiple people are injured when elite Russian soldiers ‘machine-gun’ audience packed with children using blank-firing weapons, causing mass panic during demonstration

This is when members of Putin’s internal security forces fire blanks at a crowd full of children, injuring many, including a four-year-old boy.

The gruesome footage shows a group of National Guard soldiers putting on a slick demonstration before pointing their firearms at onlookers and firing blanks.

You can see young children in the crowd covering their faces and ears as the loud booms explode from the “elite” RosGvardia guns at the event in the town of Elektrostal, a suburb 72 kilometers east of Moscow.

A woman’s voice says: What is (wrong) with you? Did something hit you?’

The woman continues: ‘Come here… Did something hit you? Calm down, calm down.’

She then realizes a child has been injured and exclaims, “Damn!” ****! Get here faster! Where’s the doctor?’

Members of Putin’s internal security forces open fire on a crowd. Despite the blank firing, onlookers appear frightened, and a four-year-old child was taken to hospital with head injuries

The young boy was reportedly injured after being hit by a projectile from one of the guns.

He was taken to hospital along with a 54-year-old woman who reportedly suffered a “serious facial injury”. She had to have surgery and can’t eat or talk, Moskovsky Komsomolets reported.

“She had two teeth knocked out, her cheek was damaged, and the patient required emergency surgery.

“Now the woman’s life is out of danger, but temporarily she can’t eat or even talk.”

A local VK social media account said: ‘During demonstration performances, the elite units decided to play ‘a joke’ and started shooting the audience, including the children sitting on stage, with blank cartridges.

“The children were very scared. They grabbed their heads screaming, fell to the floor and crawled under the benches.

“One boy suffered a head injury from a bouncing cartridge case.”

The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel this weekend published the video showing the incident.

‘During demonstration performances, the fighters of the Russian Guard decided to shoot spectators with children (fortunately with empty cartridges). Small children screamed holding their heads and falling to the floor.

Before the mock execution, the crowd seems engaged and excited to watch soldiers perform acrobatic moves

‘There were wounded. Severe damage from a bouncing cartridge case,” the channel said News week.

Before the “mock execution,” the crowd seems engaged and excited to watch soldiers perform acrobatic moves, including a pyramid stunt, while others light flares displaying the Russian flag.

But the sporting event quickly turns sour when a group of soldiers crouch on their haunches and appear to be aiming directly at the unsuspecting crowd.

‘Before the start of the game, the military organized demonstration performances – (with) elements of hand-to-hand combat and breaking stones.

Kalashnikov rifles loaded with blanks were also used.…

‘A group of Guardsmen chased another group, who fired back.

“This is when the tragic ricochet happened, although it is not yet entirely clear how this could have happened. The blank cartridges flew into the stands.’

At least one federal newspaper has retracted its report on the fiasco, which suggested an official bid to cover up the humiliating blunder by Putin’s elite forces.

The National Guard is led by a close friend of Putin, General Viktor Zolotov, 69 years old. He is an army general who was once Putin’s main bodyguard. He is seen as perhaps Putin’s most loyal henchman.

An investigation into the incident has now been launched by the Russian Commission of Inquiry.