Altanbulag, Mongolia
\nLong lines of vehicles were seen at a border crossing between Mongolia and Russia on Sunday as people fled the Kremlin\u2019s call-up of hundreds of thousands of reservists for the war in Ukraine. The head of a checkpoint in the town of Altanbulag told AFP that more than 3,000 Russians had entered Mongolia via the crossing since Wednesday, most of them men. Queues of people holding Russian passports were also seen outside the immigration counter for the border crossing, according to an AFP reporter there.
\n\u201cFrom September 21, the number of Russian citizens entering Mongolia has increased,\u201d checkpoint head Major G. Byambasuren told AFP. \u201cAs of 12:00 (noon) today, more than 3,000 Russian citizens have entered Mongolia.\u201d
\nRussian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced Russia\u2019s first military call-up of fighting-age men since World War II. It is designed to fill Russia\u2019s army with hundreds of thousands of men after a string of setbacks that appears to have altered the tide in the seven-month Ukraine war.
\nByambasuren said about 2,500 of the Russians crossing the border were men while more than 500 were women and children. \u201cMost of them are single young people who crossed the border with their parents,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Altanbulag, Mongolia Long lines of vehicles were seen at a border crossing between Mongolia and Russia on Sunday as people fled the Kremlin\u2019s call-up of hundreds of thousands of reservists for the war in Ukraine. The head of a checkpoint in the town of Altanbulag told AFP that more than 3,000 Russians had entered Mongolia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-285902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n