KYIV - In the occupied city of Kherson, some Ukrainian men believe that if they break their own arms, maybe the RussiansOthers are hiding in basements. Some are trying to run even though they are forbidden from leaving the city, residents said, and virtually everyone is afraid.
At the same time, Russian military officials continued to cast a dragnet across the vast expanse of their own nation, which stretches halfway around the Northern Hemisphere, for hundreds of thousands of men to conscript into the military, many likely to soon be dispatched to Ukraine. Amid rumours that Putin may close the nation's borders completely, an exodus from the country continued, with a line of 2,500 cars reported at the Russia-Georgia border Sunday, according to the Federal Customs Service.Mr Putin had resisted ordering a mobilisation for months, but his decision underscored the Kremlin's struggles on the battlefield, where more than 80,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured in just over seven months, American officials estimate.
"We see that people, in particular, in Dagestan, began to fight for their lives," he said."We see that they are beginning to understand that this is a question of their lives. Why should their husbands, brothers, sons die in this war? In a war that one man wants." Mr Ivan Fedorov, the exiled mayor of the occupied city of Melitopol, said Sunday that men could no longer travel out of Zaporizhzhia, and he urged people seeking to avoid Russian conscription"to leave for Crimea, then for the European Union or Georgia and then return to Ukraine".
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