The Russians fleeing Putin’s military draft

Russians escape the nation within the wake of Putin’s navy mobilisation.

A Finnish border guard speaks with Russians on the Vaalimaa border checkpoint between Finland and Russia in Virolahti, Finland on September 30, 2022 [Lehtikuva/Sasu Makinen/Reuters]

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s choice to name up 300,000 navy reservists to affix the battle in Ukraine has created chaos within the nation.

Whereas males are being summoned to the entrance traces to battle within the battle on brief discover, others are fleeing the nation to flee the draft.

We speak to a few of them.

On this episode:

• Albert, Russian draft resister
• Andrey, Russian draft resister
• Hoelun, Russian draft resister
• Bernard Smith (@JazeeraBernard), Al Jazeera correspondent

Episode credit:

This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra with Negin Owliaei, Ruby Zaman, Chloe Okay Li, Amy Walters, Alexandra Locke, and our host Halla Mohieddeen. Alex Roldan is our sound designer. Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou Gad are our engagement producers. And Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.

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