In numbers comparable to the size of Putin's 300,000-strong mobilization, Russian men are fleeing military call-up. Not everyone welcomes them.
Within some destination countries, and across the wider West, there’s sharp debate over whether those leaving are deserving of shelter.
Many Russians who made the decision to depart did so with little more than a knapsack and whatever cash they could scrape together, leaving jobs, homes and family behind. , believing it would have little effect on their daily lives, but the mobilization order suddenly brought the war home.built up soon after Putin’s mobilization announcement.Sakhamin — who did not want his full name used for fear of retribution against relatives remaining in Russia — traveled with his girlfriend. They took a taxi as far as they could, then walked the last 10 miles to the border, where they joined an hours-long line for Russian authorities to check their documents.
In some favored destinations, the window for reaching safety was relatively short. Nine days after Putin’s announcement, Finland, the last land route for Russians into the European Union, barred Russians from entering as tourists. In the week prior to that, two-thirds of the 66,000 Russians coming into the EU had arrived via Finland, according to the bloc’s“I was lucky,” said Yevginiy, a 34-year-old supply-chain manager who caught a sold-out bus from St.
In Georgia, where tens of thousands of Russians moved after the war began, volunteer groups that have been aiding new arrivals, and advising others on how to cross over, said the influx had probably doubled the numbers already there. With Russian troops occupying two separatist territories in Georgia, some opposition politicians have said that the newcomers should be made to explicitly express recognition of the country’s territorial integrity.
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