Russians run out of tickets to flee Putin’s mobilization order: “They buy without checking where they are going”

This Thursday, September 22, after the president of Russia Vladimir PutinVladimir Putin will order a partial mobilization to support a plan for the annexation of strategic areas in Ukraine; thousands of Russian citizens approached the borders of the Eurasian country, and generated an increase in traffic at the crossings between Finland and Georgia, as well as an increase in the price of tickets.

Airline ticket prices rose above $5,000, however, most reservations for the next few days are sold out, Reuters reported.

“War is horrible. It’s okay to be afraid of war, death and those things,” he said. Sergei, a Russian who recently arrived in Serbia, to the British agency. Both the Balkan nation and Turkey have become two of the possible destinations for citizens fleeing the war.

Likewise, the agency also consulted with a tourist company about the increase in the price of plane tickets to leave Russia. “It is a panic demand by people who fear they will not be able to leave the country later. People are buying tickets no matter where they fly to,” the company said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin highlighted “weapons of the future” to warn NATO that Russia has a nuclear arsenal that allows it to counter any Western threat.

“I want to remind you that our country also has different offensive systems and, in some components, they are more modern than those of NATO countries,” Putin said in the television speech announcing the partial mobilization in Ukraine.

About 10,000 men enlisted in the ranks of the Russian Army to be sent to Ukraine as part of the first day of partial mobilization decreed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Army of that country reported Thursday.

“On the first day of partial mobilization, about 10,000 people voluntarily showed up at the military commissariats, without waiting to receive their summons,” explained Vladimir Shimlianski, spokesman for the mobilization department of the Russian General Staff, to the Interfax agency.

According to the presidential decree, 300,000 people will be mobilized, although the independent press reported the existence of a secret clause that would allow the Army to call up up to a million men, which was immediately denied by the Kremlin.

With information from EFE.

Source-larepublica.pe