Key Points
- Russian military-age men escaping Vladimir Putin’s mobilization order are joining a growing queue of migrants assembling on the southern border in Mexico, waiting to cross into the US to ask for asylum.
- When the Russian president announced a partial draft in September, seeking to call up 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of men fled the country to avoid being shipped off to the front line.
- While many of the objectors escaped to neighboring European countries, thousands of Russians ended up traveling to Mexico in a bid to enter the US.
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