The Kremlin says it has no intention of closing the borders
The head of the Migration Service of Kazakhstan, Colonel Aslan Atalikov, said that the number of people arriving in the country from Russia has increased dramatically.
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peksov said that despite tens of thousands of Russian men fleeing to Georgia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia due to mobilization, Moscow does not intend to close the borders.
On September 26 in Moscow At the press conference, Peskov said that he had no information about the borders being closed.
But in the meantime, Russians continue to leave the country. According to some media reports, more than 260,000 people have left Russia since the partial mobilization was announced.
Colonel Aslan Atalikov, the head of the Migration Service of Kazakhstan, said that the number of people coming to the country from Russia has increased dramatically.
He said that 40,000 of the Russians who came to Kazakhstan have already gone to other countries, especially Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Mongolia embraces Mongolians
The flow from Russia to Kazakhstan is so great that a cinema in the city of Oral has been reserved for the migrants.
Over the weekend, the President of Mongolia, Tsakhiyagin Elbegdorj, in his appeal published on his YouTube channel, called on Russian citizens of Tuva, Buryat and Kalmyk descent to come to Mongolia “instead of killing Ukrainians”:
“I know that since the beginning of this bloody war, the ethnic minorities living in Russia have suffered more. Buryatian Mongols, Tuva Mongols and Kalmykian Mongols suffered the most. Hundreds of Mongols were killed and thousands were wounded. We are ready to embrace the Mongols.”
Elbegdorj as well Russia called on President Vladimir Putin to stop the war immediately.
He said that Ukrainians free has the right to live as a country.