Men desperate to escape the Kremlin-announced mobilization are resorting to scooters to cross Georgia, as cars wait eight hours to cross the border and pedestrians are not allowed to cross.

Escaping war on a scooterPhoto: Twitter capture / @sota_vision

“Those fleeing mobilization in Georgia switch to scooters. You cannot cross the border on foot, you need transport. A scooter, for example, is considered sufficient for customs. By car, due to traffic jams, the crossing takes more than 8 hours,” wrote the independent publication SOTA on Twitter.

“There was a similar scheme for refugees who cycled from Russia to Norway,” he also notes. on Twitter, Andrew Rotha journalist for The Guardian.

And Felix Light, a Reuters reporter, writes on the social network that “on the border between Georgia and Russia, Upper Lars is often crowded, but the images on social networks are crazy today. Look out for guys riding past on scooters, bypassing the pedestrian ban.’

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