Large numbers of Russians rushed to book one-way tickets out of the country while they still could Wednesday after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization of military reservists for the war in Ukraine.
Reports of panic spreading among Russians soon flooded social networks. Anti-war groups said the limited airplane tickets out of Russia reached enormous prices due to high demand and swiftly became unavailable.
Social networks in Russian also surged with advice on how to avoid the mobilization or leave the country. “Spend your vacation at the resorts of Crimea or Krasnodar region,” Russian media quoted Kartapolov as saying. A group based in Serbia, called Russians, Belarussians, Ukrainians and Serbs Together Against War, tweeted that there were no available flights to Belgrade from Russia until mid-October. Flights to Turkey, Georgia or Armenia also sold out, according to the Belgrade-based group.“All the Russians who wanted to go to war already went,” the group said. “No one else wants to go there!”
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