Some of the men of military age are trying to sit out mobilization abroad, and some in the forest
Partial mobilization in Russia, announced by Vladimir Putin's decree, caused panic. Hundreds of thousands of Russian men of military age are trying to hide from subpoenas. On the border with Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Georgia and Finland, many kilometers of queues of Russians fleeing from the military registration and enlistment office lined up. In the search queries of Russians on Google, “how to escape from Russia” and “how to break an arm” are gaining more and more popularity.
TSN.ua has collected details of how Russians are fleeing from mobilization and to whom they bring subpoenas in Russia.
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“I'm not going to die for Kherson”
“Air Force Ukraine” cites the story of a Russian Ilya, a 27-year-old engineer from Tula, who, hearing Putin's announcement of partial mobilization, immediately decided to flee .
“I listened to it while collecting winter things. In principle, I was ready for this from the beginning of the war, but I didn’t collect the bag, I hoped,” he says.
The preparation consisted in the fact that Ilya asked his girlfriend to buy a SIM card for her passport, agreed with an army friend that he would live at his dacha in a neighboring region, developing a train route there.
He understood what the military registration and enlistment office needed, because he once served in tank troops. Ilya says he didn't see any other options for himself, when asked about the possibility of going abroad, he laughs: “Who needs me there?”
When asked how he himself feels about what is happening in Ukraine, Ilya says that he is completely indifferent. “It's a different country, fuck us Kherson, I don't know, I'm not going to die for it“.
The Russian also said that he didn't go to a single protest rally, and such a desire never arose – he speaks of protests with noticeable disgust: “They have nothing to do.”
What he will do himself, Ilya does not yet know. He sits in someone else's dacha, not intended for wintering. He bought canned food and potatoes and is going to live economically, writes the BBC.
The Buryats are hiding in the forests
In Buryatia, Tuyana, a resident of the village of Dutulur, told the BBC that at night they tried to hand over 20 subpoenas to her neighbors, ” but it didn't work.”
“In September, we have the season of pine nuts, and village men go deep into the forest, into the taiga, with an overnight stay to collect nuts. You can earn 4-5 thousand rubles a day on this. My uncle left on Tuesday, a neighbor left, another acquaintance from the regional center,” says Tuyana.
According to her, there is no communication in the forest, so “men do not know that mobilization has begun in the country, and they are sent to war”.< /p>
On September 21, Tuyana knew from stories from the district administration that 130 people from their entire district were to be taken away. That is, more than 1% of the total number of men in the district, where about 12 thousand men live.
Even before Putin officially announced the mobilization, the summons was brought to Tuyana's uncle from the same village of Dutulur. A 50-year-old man took it and left for the district clinic, where he measured the pressure – it turned out to be elevated.
At the recruiting station, temporarily deployed in the regional house of culture, with this certificate he was considered unsuitable, but the man just in case, he hid from the draft board on a farm with cows. There he spends the night for the third day. He refused to speak to the BBC, the publication says.
In the neighboring village of Bichura, summonses were brought by administration and police officers at night. Hearing a knock on the door, some people come out with firearms, says Tuyana's friend, “but it's more for self-defense.”
The doors of conscripts are broken in Moscow
In In Moscow, members of the mobilization commissions, in order to hand over summonses, break down the doors. Moscow City Duma deputy Yevgeny Stupin spoke about such cases.
“In the Kosino-Ukhtomsky district of Moscow, Zhilishchnik employees, together with the police, without presenting any documents, break the vestibule doors on the landings of residential buildings to hand over summonses to the military enlistment office! Some residents have already heard threats to cut off the electrical wires from the apartment if the men will not open the door to receive a summons,” the deputy said.
To prove his words, he showed messages from Muscovites who became “victims” of the actions of the mobilization commission.
From Russia in bulk men running
Many Russians who do not want to die for Putin and the “Russian world” began to “protest with their feet” – to flee the country. On the border of the Russian Federation with Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Georgia and Finland, many kilometers of queues lined up. Also, the Russians began to massively buy train and air tickets to other countries.
The Novaya Gazeta. Europe edition, citing sources in the Kremlin, reported that after the announcement of partial mobilization, at least 261,000 men fled Russia.
According to the source of the publication, figures on the number of men leaving Russia began to come to the Putin administration from the security forces. Allegedly, the FSB certificate dated September 25 indicates a figure of 261,000 men who left Russia from Wednesday to Saturday evening, the 24th.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan published data according to which 98 thousand citizens entered the country since September 21 Russia.
Georgia has become the most popular flight destination for Russians. The queue of cars on the border of Georgia and Russia at the border crossing “Upper Lars” stretched for almost 20 km. Here they wait for 40-50 hours. And some Russians are not graduating, citing a mobilization order, according to DW.
The exodus of Russians who do not want to participate in the mobilization continues. The line of cars on the border of Georgia and Russia at the Upper Lars border crossing stretched for almost 20 km. Here they wait for 40-50 hours. And some Russians were not released, referring to the mobilization decree pic.twitter.com/G5e94AFxJm
— DW Ukrainian (@dw_russian) September 26, 2022
Upper Lars checkpoint on the border between Russia and Georgia.
A queue of Russian citizens fleeing Putin's mobilization pic.twitter.com— Zönöv (@zonov_sl ) September 26, 2022
In addition, the Russian authorities intend to deploy a mobile military enlistment office at the Upper Lars border checkpoint.
Russia-Georgia border.
Then and now.
Georgia, how do you feel? pic.twitter.com/HdsEmrYJYq— Jeannette the Beast (@JeannetteBaron) September 25, 2022
