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Kazakhstan struggles to accommodate Russians fleeing

Society 14:42 27 Sep, 2022
Kazakhstan struggles to accommodate Russians fleeing

Kazakhstan is struggling to accommodate tens of thousands of Russians who have fled their homeland since Moscow announced a military mobilisation last week, officials say, but the Almaty government has no plans to close its border, Qazet.az reports according to .

Russian men, some with families, started crossing the world's second-longest land border en masse after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the mobilisation of reservists last week amid a stalled military campaign in Ukraine.