Mass escape from Russia with long car queues that formed overnight on the border with Georgia. These are mainly men who intend to leave the country to avoid being forcibly enlisted and sent to fight in Ukraine.
According to the Kremlin, however, this is "magnified" news, while some witnesses say that the line of cars at the Upper Lars checkpoint has reached about 5 kilometers, while another group said that it took seven hours to cross the border.
A man told the BBC that he took his passport and headed to the border without even packing his bags immediately after President Vladimir Putin announced: " I'll break my arm, leg, anything to avoid leaving ."
Meanwhile, in the Russian Far East, in Kamchatka, the first polling stations have opened for the referendum on the annexation of the territories occupied in Ukraine to Russia. Precisely in that area there are numerous displaced persons from the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
As for the war operations, Putin - CNN reports - would have given tactical orders directly to the generals operating in the field. This would be an "unusual strategy" for the modern armed forces, which could indicate a "dysfunctional command structure".
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