THOUSANDS of Russians are nonetheless queuing to get in a foreign country because the 20km site visitors jam on the Russian-Georgian border is now seen from area.

On Monday, a Russian conscription officer was shot by a younger man who refused to be drafted amid Putin’s try to scramble 300,000 further troopers to the Ukrainian frontline after saying a partial mobilisation of Russian troops.

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This comes as 1000’s protested Putin’s brutal new coverage to assist in his bloodthirsty invasion of Ukraine.

Satellite tv for pc pictures from Maxar Applied sciences present a queue of vehicles fleeing Russia on its border with Georgia on the so-called Higher Lars border crossing stretching for nearly 20 km on Monday.

Russians advised media they’d been ready for wherever between 40 and 50 hours.

Related pictures of giant tailbacks got here from the Khyagt border put up between Mongolia and Russia.

As much as 260,000 males have fled the nation to keep away from being drafted into the Russian military, in response to the Russia safety providers (FSB).

A Kremlin supply advised Novaya Gazeta Europe they’d seen a report stating that 261,000 males had left Russia between Wednesday and Saturday night time.

Nonetheless, the newspaper stated the quantity may very well be a lot larger as a result of information may need taken longer to be reported to the best situations.

“The environment inside within the administration is such that safety forces and the protection ministry will be capable to persuade Putin to shut the exits earlier than it’s too late,” the supply is quote as saying.

Already on Monday, there have been experiences that Russian military had despatched armoured personnel carriers to the Verkhny Lars checkpoint on the border with Georgia.

On Monday, it was additionally revealed that over 8,000 Russians fled to Finland in a determined try to flee the coverage.

A draft order from the Kremlin on closing borders has not but been introduced.

“Yesterday 8,314 Russians entered Finland by way of Finnish Russian land border. Double the quantity than week earlier than. Throughout Saturday and Sunday whole of 16 886 Russians arrived. Many in transit to different nations. Sunday 5,068 Russians exited,” Matti Pitkäniitty, Head of Worldwide Affairs Unit at Finnish Border Guard, tweeted.

“Chief of the Finnish Border Guard said that as much as 80% of arriving Russians are in transit to different (Schengen) nations. For the time being I observe variety of asylum seekers and unlawful border crossings.”

However many Russian males have been desperately searching for methods to keep away from Putin’s draft to cease themselves from being despatched to die in Ukraine.

Males have reportedly been swiftly getting married or registering themselves as carers for aged kids in a bid to get out of the conflict – with some reported to have damaged their very own arms to flee the draft.

Surprising footage even confirmed one man setting himself on fireplace at a railway station in Ryazan, 110 miles southeast of Moscow, to keep away from being despatched to the frontline.

Within the chilling video, the person calmly pours petrol or another flammable substance from a canister over his head, earlier than sparking a flame.

The person, who lived, reportedly shouted: “I don’t need to go to conflict.”