Russia Ukraine war: Satellite images reveal lines into Georgia

So lots of Russians are running away Vladimir Putin’s call-up that the traffic congestion to get away into Georgia can be seen from area.

Satellite images reveal lines of countless automobiles waiting to enter into the neighbouring country.

The opposite of the roadway back into Russia is almost entirely clear in the pictures released by Maxar Technology, which were taken on Sunday.

It is estimated that the queue today contains nearly 6,000 vehicles.

Georgian officials said earlier that the number of Russians arriving each day has nearly doubled since President Putin announced a partial mobilisation for the war in Ukraine.

The Russian leader’s move sparked a major backlash, including a shooting at a recruitment centre, a mass exodus across borders and significant protests. The shooting came after scattered arson attacks on enlistment offices.

Putin looked deeply uncomfortable yesterday when his Belarusian ally President Alexander Lukashenko ranted about allowing Russian men who did not want to fight to leave.

Georgia has long been a major destination for Russians fleeing over the past seven months since Putin’s invasion and increasing numbers of families have been seen dragging suitcases across the border.

Georgia’s interior minister Vakhtang Gomelauri said: ‘Four to five days ago, 5,000-6,000 (Russians) were arriving in Georgia daily.

‘The number has (now) grown to some 10,000 per day.’

Today, the local interior ministry in a Russian region bordering Georgia said there was a back-up of around 5,500 cars waiting to reach the border.

Russian officials have declared plans to set up a military recruitment office right on the border.

Pictures show men with bicycles and carrying suitcases crossing the border on foot earlier.

The influx of Russians has sparked mixed feelings in a country where painful memories of Putin’s 2008 invasion remain fresh.

The five-day war left Georgia partitioned, with Russian troops stationed in its two separatist regions, which the Kremlin recognised as independent after the EU brokered a ceasefire.

In the first four months after the war began, nearly 50,000 Russians have fled to the tiny Black Sea country, according to official statistics released in June.

Russians can stay there for a year without a visa.

Meanwhile, pictures from Friday have also shown queues at the border with Mongolia, where Russians have also been attempting to flee to.

In Montenegro, Russian tourists decided not to return home.

A man who gave his name only as Alexander – seen walking along a beach with his partner Svetlana – said: ‘There was no sense in going back, I want to live, I do not want to go to war, this is not our war, we are not protecting our homeland, we are attacking our neighbours, our brothers, we are trying to occupy territories that do not belong to us, and which, as far as I am concerned, we do not need, it is Ukrainian territory and I definitely will not fight for that, let alone die for it.’

There has been speculation in Russia that Putin could follow up last week’s partial mobilisation by declaring martial law, to shut the borders for all men of fighting age.

The call-up has triggered a massive exodus of men fearing this could be their last chance to leave.

Numerous Russian officials have acknowledged that mistakes were made during the mobilisation — when military conscription offices were rounding up random people without military experience who weren’t supposed to be called up — and promised to quickly correct them.

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