Georgia and Kazakhstan, two countries neighboring Russia, today confirmed a large increase in Russian arrivals after the declaration of conscription on 21 September by Vladimir Putin. Russian arrivals in Georgia have almost doubled to 10,000 per day, Georgia’s interior ministry has announced.
“The number has increased to about 10,000 per day. For example, it was 11,200 on Sunday and less than 10,000 on Monday,” compared to 5,000-6,000 before Russia’s conscription was declared, according to the ministry.
On the Georgian border, authorities in the Russian region of North Ossetia admit the situation is tense at the Verkhni Lars border crossing.
An ally of Russia and a member of an economic and customs union in which Moscow also participates, Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic in central Asia, also cultivates relations with the West and China.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised fears in some of the country’s residents that they may become a target of Russian ambitions in the future, mainly because Kazakhstan has a Russian minority.
After all, the Russia invaded Ukraine claiming, among other things, that the Russian speakers living in eastern Ukraine “were victims of genocide”.
Source: News Beast
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