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Impressive queues at Moscow airport. At the border posts, by car or on foot, thousands of Russians have therefore chosen exile since the announcement of a mobilization of reservists by Vladimir Putin, for the Ukrainian front. Men, women, children, who take the direction of Turkey, Finland, but also Georgia.
There was more than 20 km of queue, Sunday September 24, to pass in Georgia. In these thousands of cars, Russians, fleeing the mobilization of reservists decreed by Vladimir Putin. Here they are finally on the Georgian side, after two or three days of bottling. We find them in Tbilisi, the capital of the country. New queue to get a Sim card and call locally. Suitcases on the sidewalk, these men explain that until now, the Russians let almost everyone pass, sometimes with bribes, up to 180 euros.
Often these men say that they have not yet been summoned by the military authorities, but they leave as a precaution. “It’s gone too far. What the government is offering us doesn’t suit me. (…) Of course not everyone will be mobilized, but you don’t know if it’s going to fall on you or on someone else. other”, says a Russian. These new Russian arrivals are not necessarily welcome in Georgia. On a recent graffiti, they are invited with rather crude words, to return home.