Russia’s military actions in Ukraine have caused the departure of a significant number of Russian citizens, but there is no accurate data on how many people left Russia after February 24, reports severreal.org, which Rador cites.

The opinions of experts differ greatly. For example, employees of the Institute of Social Analysis and Forecast of the Russian Academy of Sciences calculated that before the introduction of mobilization in Russia, 100,000-150,000 citizens left the country.

Officially, according to Rosstat, 368,000 people left Russia for the CIS countries in six months, 294,000 of them returned to Russia, 50,000 people left for the CIS countries, and 27,000 returned to Russia.

After the announcement of mobilization, Forbes wrote that 700,000 people left Russia in the first days, 200,000 of them to Kazakhstan. Later, the Kremlin qualified this information as fake.

The President of Georgia, Salome Zourabisvili, said that after the mobilization, 700,000 Russian citizens entered the country, of which approximately 100,000 settled. In December 2022, Alfa Bank’s Center for Macroeconomic Analysis reported that approximately 1.1 million citizens left Russia in the first nine months of the war.