A day after Russia invaded Ukraine, married couple Olga and Nikolai Kustov locked up their St Petersburg apartment, took their children out of school, and moved to a foreign country.
Despite facing an uncertain future, they still believe they are better off than if they stayed in Russia.
The couple - along with their children aged two and seven, Olga's Ukrainian-born mother and their pet cat - are now settling into life in neighbouring Georgia, part of a rapidly-swelling diaspora that has quit Russia in the five weeks since Moscow launched what it calls its "special military operation", but which the West and Ukraine say is a war of aggression.
