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Evening Standard
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Robert Dex

Hundreds of thousands of Russians flee after Putin’s mobilisation call

Cars queuing to cross the border into Kazakhstan at the Mariinsky border crossing, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) south of Chelyabinsk, Russia.

(Picture: AP)

Almost 200,000 Russians have left the country since President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation of reservists to fight in Ukraine.

The vast majority of the 194,000 have entered neighbouring countries such as Kazakhstan, Georgia and Finland.

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