Putin will be the only leader in history that created war refugees outside and inside his country: first the rich left, and now the able bodied younger ones leaving.
Yes I know, we can't/shouldn't believe these numbers, because Russia has it together and we should follow Twitter handles that promote a Russia only view because if Russian's said anything against, they would be arrested and jailed.
But I will trust the quotes from Govt officials in Georgia, Kasakhastan that are quoted here and have to provide housing and sustainance for these large numbers.
And once they settle in, chances they go back is zero .
Huge lines of traffic have formed at Russia's borders as Russians seek to get out, after Putin calls for nationwide draft for war in Ukraine.
abcnews.go.com
Russians who fled Putin's mobilization speak out
Huge lines of traffic have formed at borders as Russians seek to get out.
By
Patrick Reevell
September 27, 2022, 4:26 PM
2:55
Fears of escalation mount amid Russian war in Ukraine
Fears of escalation mount amid Russian war in Ukraine
With escalating resistance across Russia to Putin’s new military draft, thousands have taken to the streets to protest.
Tens of thousands of Russians continue to try to flee the country, fearful of being caught up in the
military mobilization ordered by president Vladimir Putin last week to replenish his forces in Ukraine.
Miles-long lines of traffic have formed at border crossings with some neighboring countries amid the exodus, as Russians pack exit routes, worried the government might soon impose further restrictions on military age men leaving.
This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies on Sept. 26, 2022, shows an overview of the traffic jam near the Russia border with Georgia on Sept. 25, 2022, after Russian President Vladamir Putin annou...
Maxar Technologies via AP
Officials in Kazakhstan, which borders Russia to the south, said 98,000 Russians have crossed into their country since Putin announced the mobilization last Wednesday. Georgia's interior ministry told ABC News Tuesday that 100,000 had entered its territory in the past few days. Tens of thousands more have left via other countries, including Finland and Mongolia. The European Union's border service said 66,000 Russians had entered the bloc over the past week, 30% more than the week before.
Russians began fleeing the country within hours of Putin's ordering what he called a "partial" mobilization to call-up 300,000 men in an effort to reverse the course of his faltering war in Ukraine. In reality, experts say there are little restrictions on who can be drafted and there are widespread reports of men being mobilized regardless of their eligibility.
Although the mobilization for now is officially meant to apply only to those with some military experience, many fear the criteria could be expanded and that the government could block military age men from leaving the country. Men subject to the draft are barred from leaving the country and widespread reports are emerging of men with military experience being turned back from borders.
Russians wait and lineup to get Kazakhstan's INN in a public service center in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Sept. 27, 2022.
Vladimir Tretyakov/NUR.KZ via AP
At the Verkhny Lars crossing where Russia borders Georgia, a line of hundreds of cars has formed, stretching back around 12 miles, according to journalists there, with thousands of people waiting, some sleeping in their cars. The BBC reported 2,500 cars were currently in the line, citing Russia's customs service.
Russian authorities on Tuesday confirmed that Russian troops with armored vehicles had set up a checkpoint at the crossing to turn back those subject to the call-up and were handing out draft papers there. Officials said a mobile enlistment office had also been set up at the border crossing.
Kazakhstan, which has a nearly 5,000 mile-long border with Russia and a relaxed entry regime, has become a magnet for those leaving, with border crossings swamped. A 37-year-old man who entered Kazakhstan Monday near the Oral-Uralsk crossing said the line of traffic waiting at one checkpoint point now stretched nearly 20 miles.
"There's simply a hellish line -- it's endless. And moreover at all checkpoints," the man, a manager from Tver, a city just outside Moscow, said by phone. He asked to remain anonymous for fear of punishment by the Russian authorities.
People ride bicycles along a queue of vehicles at the Verkhny Lars checkpoint in North Ossetia, Russia on the border to Georgia, on Sept. 27, 2022. Around 3.5 thousand cars are queueing at the checkpoint t...
Yelena Afonina/TASS via ZUMA Press
The man said he had spent 20 hours by road to reach the border from Moscow and was now in the border city of Uralsk, on the Kazakhstan side. Although he is currently not subject to the draft because he has no military experience, he said he had still decided to flee because he feared the borders being closed soon and did not believe in fighting against Ukraine.
Iranians are the most selfish b***t*ds , like their Saudi brethren.
These drones are useless against Israel and they know it, so they never used it once. Instead they let Hamas attack Israel with projectiles that are intercepted but then in the counter-fire Palestinians civilians get slaughtered every time. This is Iran's strength.
So their strength is to brain wash and provide substandard weapons to groups that will stand up against Israel except they end up getting slaughtered: in Lebanon, Gaza, and more recently Syria.
But their supremacy is against Saudi Arabia where they can do some damage. Of course the entire Saudi military apparatus is as retarded as their ability to conduct intelligence: the joke of the century to murder your own citizen in your consulate that is almost always under surveiilance by your host country.
