– Being sent to war is the same as certain death. This is a war we strongly oppose. The uncertainty is great and frightening. The two tell news via relatives in Norway. They don’t dare talk to us, but answer the questions we send by e-mail. For several days they have been sitting in silence in a dacha, a country house many Russians have outside the city. They hope it looks locked and abandoned, and are afraid of being found. Then they are either sent to war or to prison. On Wednesday morning, President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization of the reserve forces in Russia. Most Russian men aged 18 to 65 are automatically considered reservists. Air tickets to the destinations Russians can still visit visa-free sold out quickly after the announcement. At the border crossings to Georgia in the south and Finland in the west, an increasing traffic of Russians who want to leave their homeland was quickly recorded. Do not dare to travel outdoors The two men news has been in contact with say that their employers told them to go into hiding. Get away, preferably out of the country, was the message they received. Now their bosses are trying to protect them by saying they are on holiday. When they left home, they took only a bag with the bare essentials. – We wanted to avoid looking like ordinary travellers. They do not dare to travel outdoors, for fear of encountering mobilization guards. If the doorbell rings, they don’t open for anyone. To be safe, they have destroyed their SIM cards and parked their cars some distance away. So far, they have managed to get access to food and other things they need. What presses the most is the fear of being discovered. – Women are not sent to war, so they can move quite freely and without problems. We can have food and clothes delivered by friends and acquaintances. Will close the border for men of serviceable age Russian authorities will close the border for all men of serviceable age from September 28, reports the opposition Russian online newspaper Meduza. Meduza cites an unnamed source said to be closely linked to the Russian authorities. The person believes that September 28 is the most likely date, while another source says that it will happen after the so-called referendums in four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine. The photo will show people walking past cars with Russian license plates on the Georgian side of the border between Russia and Georgia. Photo: VANO SHLAMOV / AFP The votes will, by all accounts, lead to Russia annexing the areas. The Russian human rights lawyer Pavel Chikov says documents show that men who try to cross the border between Russia and Kazakhstan are refused to leave the country. The order must come from the military. A picture of the document has been posted on Twitter. According to the Kremlin, no decision has yet been made on border closures on Monday afternoon. In a telephone conversation with Reuters, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that some summonses had been sent by mistake and that this should be corrected. “All men are stopped” Pictures the two men have sent to news show Russians in uniform in several places: in residential streets and intersections, in parks and at the subway station. – Not least they go to addresses. They call and, in the worst case, search the home, a close relative of the men tells news. – All men of all ages are stopped for identification, and the vast majority then receive a letter with an address, where they have to show up the very next morning. Deserters and people who do not show up for duty risk a ten-year prison sentence in the worst case scenario. The two who are hiding in the dacha say via their relatives that they feel “lost”. They don’t know how long they can or must stay there. For now, they are taking it one day at a time. 100 arrested in demonstrations Russian police have arrested more than a hundred demonstrators over the weekend, in the southern region of Dagestan. AFP reports. Those present protested against the mobilization, according to the organization OVD-Info. Dagestan has lost more Russians to the war in Ukraine than any other part of Russia, according to counts by independent Russian media. Demonstrators in Russia: – I will not die for Putin! OVD-Info believes that more than 2,300 protesters have been arrested in Russia since the mobilization was announced on 21 September. In the last week, many men have fled the country to avoid being called up for military service.
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