Russia is recruiting, but the EU has to issue visas to escapees?

According to the Financial Associated Press, Sergei Tsekov, member of the Russian Federation Council, said on the 26th that men of combat age should not be allowed to travel abroad. There is growing public concern that Russia may announce a wider closure of border crossings to stop people fleeing the draft.

According to the Russian satellite network, The European Commission representative Anita Hipper said recently that the European Commission will hold consultations with EU member states to discuss the possibility of providing humanitarian visas to Russians who are trying to escape mobilization . According to

, ​​the idea has received the most positive response in Germany. On the contrary, many EU countries have made it clear that they will not support the measure, including Baltic countries , Poland and Czech Republic . Russians with visas, including those planning to apply for asylum, had not been released at the Finnish border last Thursday, but Finnish authorities have understood they can tighten entry rules.

Hipper noted at a press conference at Brussels that it was possible to provide humanitarian visas to Russians who escaped partial mobilization. She did not say when the decision would be made or what kind of decision would be made.

She called the current situation "unprecedented", adding that EU member states would have to consider geopolitical factors and security concerns, and in any case each request would be considered individually.

She said: "The EU must guarantee the right of entry to all those who need asylum... EU countries intend to consider the possibility of granting visas to these people (those who want to escape partial mobilization)."

Numerous messages from social networks can be See, the escape part of the mobilization of Russians without visas is trying to go to countries that do not need supplementary documents: Kazakhstan , Armenia , Georgia , Turkey and Serbia etc.

Russian satellite network reported that Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov called for such news to be treated with skepticism.

Peskov emphasized: "The information about riots at airports and border crossings is very exaggerated. There is a lot of fake news around this information." victims of information".

Andrei Kartapolov, chairman of the Russian State Duma Defense Committee, said in an interview with RBC TV that citizens who meet the conditions for mobilization are not prohibited from going abroad. He also pointed out that reservists "should not go abroad and travel for a long time now." He suggested that everyone interested in going abroad contacted the Military Service Commission to consult the possibility and rationality.

Source: Financial Associated Press, Russian satellite network