Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu unwittingly discovered the opposite effect of Vladimir Putin’s decree on partial mobilization on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, Shoigu assured that more than 200,000 Russians have already been involved in the mobilization that Putin ordered on September 21. In a speech delivered immediately after the Kremlin leader’s speech, Shoigu announced that Russia would mobilize 300,000 reservists in the first stage.

On Tuesday, the Minister of Defense of Russia also clarified that “the training of the personnel of the formations is carried out at 80 training grounds and six training centers”, also assuring that all necessary orders have been placed. recruits to receive the equipment they need

But as Max Seddon, the Moscow-based editor of the Financial Times, pointed out, the number of recruits Russia brought in in the two weeks after the equal mobilization decree was passed is about the same as the number of men who fled to Kazakhstan alone.

But tens of thousands of Russians also fled to other neighboring countries, such as Georgia, Mongolia or the European states on Russia’s western border.

Russia’s defense ministry announced last week that it would set up a mobile recruitment point on the border with Kazakhstan because of the large number of men trying to escape conscription, days after it announced the same measure on the border with Georgia.

From where the Russians tried to escape from the country of mobilization

Last Thursday, the government in Moscow announced the first step to stem the flow of people trying to leave the country, saying it would no longer issue foreign passports to men subject to mobilisation. But this measure does not apply to those trying to travel to Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan with only an internal passport, the equivalent of an identity card.

Also last Thursday, Kazakhstan adopted a measure to simplify the bureaucratic procedures faced by Russians arriving in the country after the decree on partial mobilization in Russia.

Last Tuesday, Russia said it had no plans to seek the extradition of Russians fleeing abroad to avoid military mobilization.

Also last Tuesday, the border agency of the European Union Frontex announced that 66,000 Russians entered the EU bloc in the previous 7 days, which is 30% more than in the previous week.

Immediately after the decree on mobilization on September 21, many Russians living in the west of the country headed specifically for the border with Finland, although since the end of August, the EU has made it difficult for them to issue visas.

However, the day after Vladimir Putin’s announcement, the Finnish government announced that from September 23, it would close all of its land borders, which remain open to Russian tourists.

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