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Protests have erupted across Russia since President Putin yesterday announced a mobilization order for the Ukraine war.
Escape processions continued on the roads leading to the border and airports as people trying to escape conscription, and searches on the Internet for things like ‘how to break an arm’ skyrocketed.
Reporter Shin Jeong-yeon will tell you.
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A downtown area in Moscow.
As people cheer for the man with the picket, the police rush and drag him away.
[시위대]
“No war! No war!”
After protesting Putin’s announcement of mobilization orders poured into the streets, Russia used armed police to force protesters into custody.
In just one day yesterday, more than 1,300 people were arrested in 38 Russian cities.
[모스크바 시민]
“The most precious thing a government can take away is the lives of our children. I will not give up their lives.”
A Russian dissident leader has urged protesters in a prison video, saying Putin’s greed is killing people.
[알렉세이 나발니/러시아 반체제 지도자]
“Putin is now throwing millions of Russian citizens who should have led normal lives into the meat grinder of war.”
With the declaration of the mobilization order, an escape procession continued at the border and airport.
The road to the Finnish-Georgian border has become a parking lot with the influx of vehicles, and direct flights to Turkey and Armenia, where you can go without a visa, are sold out.
[모스크바 시민]
“I’m afraid that the Russian government will take my interview and take it into question. I want the war in Ukraine to end.”
Those unable to leave Russia are looking for ways to avoid conscription, and ‘how to break an arm’ has exploded in searches in just one day.
From tomorrow, Russia will hold a vote to annex the territories of the four occupied territories, including Donetsk and Luhansk, earlier than expected in November.
Regardless of the recognition of the international community, it seems that the mobilization order was invoked to counterattack on the pretext that Ukraine had invaded Russia after making it into Russian territory through a referendum.
[블라디미르 푸틴/러시아 대통령]
“I stress once again, by all means available. Those who seek to intimidate us with nuclear weapons need to know that the wind can turn.”
To Putin, who hinted that he could even use nuclear weapons, the US warned that using nuclear weapons would have serious consequences.
This is Jeongyeon Shin from MBC News.
Video editing: Lee Sang-min
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