Vladimir Putin’s announcement of the partial mobilization of Russian reservists for the offensive in Ukraine shakes the country. While rare and impromptu demonstrations take place in various Russian cities, many people are even seeking to leave Russian territory.
“Those who have the opportunity to leave [de Russie] do it,” Anna Kiselova, an elected municipal official from the Smolnisky district of St. Petersburg, tells BFMTV.
Plane tickets taken by storm
This is evidenced in particular by airline ticket sites being stormed. “Today there are no more tickets to go to Turkey or to all the countries that do not require a visa for Russians,” adds Anna Kiselova.
“I’m leaving because I’m not crazy and I don’t want to die. I feel like I’m in a nightmare and being forced to die for a cause I don’t believe in,” he tells BFMTV. a 30-year-old Russian man on Wednesday before boarding a plane from a Russian airport.
“I still can’t believe everything that happened and why it happened,” said a Russian woman who arrived in Belgrade on Wednesday.
“I am talking to the media, but I am afraid that the police or the government will stumble on this interview… I may have problems in my country, but I ask for the freedom of Ukraine. Please, please, someone arrest “. Putin,” he said, barely getting off the plane.
Source: BFM TV
