Young men discuss how they've escaped Putin's mobilisation

Описание к видео Young men discuss how they've escaped Putin's mobilisation

President Vladimir Putin's military call-up for the war in Ukraine has prompted tens of thousands of Russian men to try to flee the country, often by circuitous routes.

Kirill Ponomarev, from Voronezh close to Ukraine, has now reached Yerevan in Armenia.

The 24 year-old journalist was already planning to leave and had a ticket for 6 days' time.

The day after Putin's speech, he decided it was too risky to wait.

It took him a week on a journey by car, train and plane spanning more than 6,000 miles.

"The border guards were quite tongue-in-cheek: at the border a border guard got on the train and said: "Wow, I've never seen so many men on this train, where are you all going?" Everyone said they were going to see their relatives, their grandmother, their girlfriend."

Yerevan and Tashkent in Uzbekistan, like other capitals of former Soviet states that let in Russians without visas, have become havens.

Especially so for members of the Russian urban middle classes who were able to move quickly and had resources to escape.

Russian citizen Sergei Goncharov fled to Bishkek in Kyrgysztan, and faced questions at passport control.

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