Yerevan
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Billboards at Zvartnots airport near Yerevan clearly show the trend: every day there are several dozen flights from Russia.
Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Sochi, Yekaterinburg, Samara… On arrival, the same profiles of young men with a slightly lost gaze.
“
I bought a ticket directly after Putin's speech announcing the mobilization… I paid 1200 dollars, it was a race
” explains Ivan*, 27, who arrived from Moscow.
Like most of the other passengers, he is young, tall, in good physical shape and convinced that he would have been sent to Ukraine.
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“I am against this war, from the beginning. I confess that I did not demonstrate, because I was afraid
of being arrested
.
But now they want to send us to kill people.
It's out of the question,"
he added.
The young man works in IT, he has some clothes and his computer: more than enough according to him.
He does not intend to return to Russia before the end of the war.
"I don't really know what to do"
Others…
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