Russian arrivals in Georgia have almost doubled to 10,000 per day, the Georgian Interior Ministry announced.
Russia’s neighbors Georgia and Kazakhstan today confirmed a large increase in Russian arrivals after Vladimir Putin declared conscription on September 21.
The arrivals of Russians in Agriculture have almost doubled to 10,000 per day, Georgia’s interior ministry said.
“The number has increased to about 10,000 per day. For example, it was 11,200 on Sunday and less than 10,000 on Monday,” compared to 5,000-6,000 before Russia’s conscription was declared, according to the ministry.
On the Georgian border, authorities in the Russian region of North Ossetia admit the situation is tense at the Verkhni Lars border crossing.
North Ossetia’s interior ministry has announced the imminent installation of a military conscription service at the border to recruit reservists trying to escape.
For its part, the interior ministry of the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan in central Asia announced that about 98,000 Russian citizens had arrived in the country since September 21, without, however, giving figures for the arrivals of the previous week.
Its president Kazakhstan Kasim-Jomart Tokaev he assured that his country, traditionally an ally of Moscow but which has distanced itself after the Russian attack on Ukraine, will protect Russians fleeing to Kazakhstan to avoid conscription.
“In recent days, many people have been coming to us from Russia. Most of them are forced to leave because of a stalemate,” Kasim-Jomart Tokaev said.
“We have to take care of them, protect their security,” he added, again taking the opportunity to condemn the war in Ukraine and to demand respect for Ukrainian territorial integrity, at a time when Moscow is organizing the annexation of four Ukrainian regions through ” referendums”.
“The territorial integrity of a state should be inviolable, it is a basic principle,” he underlined.
“A great war is raging in our immediate neighborhood. We must remember that, thinking above all about our security”, he noted.
An ally of Russia and a member of an economic and customs union in which Moscow also participates, Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic in central Asia, also cultivates relations with the West and China.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised fears in some of the country’s residents that they may become a target of Russian ambitions in the future, mainly because Kazakhstan has a Russian minority.
After all, Russia invaded Ukraine citing, among other things, that Russian speakers living in eastern Ukraine “were victims of genocide.”
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