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The road to conquest has become the road to exile.
They are tens of thousands of Russians to take the bends of the "military road", built after the annexation of Georgia in 1801, to escape the mobilization for the war in Ukraine decreed by Vladimir Putin last Wednesday.
That same evening, the only open Russian-Georgian land border post, that of Verkhni Lars, was stormed.
"Four or five days ago, we counted five to six thousand arrivals
(per day)
, now this figure has risen to ten thousand
," said Vakhtang Gomelauri, the Georgian Minister of the Interior, on Tuesday.
Around fifty thousand Russians, mostly men, have just crossed the passes of the Greater Caucasus to escape the war in Ukraine.
They are added to the more than one hundred thousand of their compatriots settled in this republic of 3.7 million souls, since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops.
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