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At least 200,000 Russians have fled the country since Russia imposed partial mobilization orders, the New York Times reported.
The newspaper reported this by citing immigration statistics from Russia’s neighboring countries.
The Kazakh government said on the 27th that 98,000 Russians had entered the country in about a week.
Georgia’s Interior Ministry in the Caucasus reported that 53,000 Russians have entered the country since the Russian mobilization order was issued, and the number of daily arrivals has increased from 5,000 to 6,000 to 10,000.
Frontex, which is responsible for border protection operations in EU member states, announced that 66,000 Russians entered the EU in the week to the 25th, an increase of more than 30% compared to the previous week.
“There are many people on the border, crying and screaming,” said Aleksandr Kamisenchev, who fled to Georgia from the southern city of Saratov.
“The (Russian) government wants to close the border, but on the other hand it seems to be allowing people to leave as protests could follow,” he said.
President Vladimir Putin issued a partial mobilization order for reservists on the 21st to replenish troops to be sent to the battlefield in Ukraine.
In a video posted on social media (SNS), vehicles lined up in long lines at border checkpoints in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Finland, which borders Russia, were captured.
The New York Times predicted that the Russian government’s plan to send 300,000 people is unlikely to be disrupted, although large-scale evacuations by Russians are unusual, as many Russians have no means of avoiding the call.
