{"id":1652487,"date":"2022-09-22T06:41:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T10:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1652487"},"modified":"2022-09-22T06:41:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T10:41:39","slug":"flights-out-of-russia-sell-out-after-putins-order-for-partial-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flights-out-of-russia-sell-out-after-putins-order-for-partial-call-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights Out of Russia Sell Out After Putin\u2019s Order for Partial Call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflights-out-of-russia-sell-out-after-putins-order-for-partial-call-up%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1652487&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>One-way flight tickets out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/russia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Russia\" class=\"link\">Russia<\/a> were selling out fast after President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/vladimir-putin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Vladimir Putin\" class=\"link\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> ordered the partial mobilisation of Moscow\u2019s reserves in a major escalation of his war on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ukraine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ukraine\" class=\"link\">Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian leader addressed the nation on Wednesday morning and said 300,000 extra military personnel would be conscripted to fight the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement has apparently raised fears among those of a fighting age that they would not be allowed to leave the country unless they fled quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Google Trends data seen by <em>Reuters<\/em> showed a spike in searches for Aviasales, which is Russia\u2019s most popular website for purchasing flights.<\/p>\n<p>Direct flights from Moscow to Istanbul in Turkey and Yerevan in Armenia, both destinations that allow Russians to enter without a visa, were almost sold out on Wednesday, according to the site data.<\/p>\n<p>There were also reports of Russians fleeing to Georgia.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Independent <\/em>reviewed ticket purchasing options on the Aviasales website, and found that the cheapest flight to Yerevan as of 11am would set travellers back just over 82,000 roubles (\u00a31,200), where yesterday the same ticket cost in the ball park of 8900 roubles (\u00a3130).<\/p>\n<p>The cheapest flight to Istanbul \u2013 a nine hour trip requiring a stopover in Antalya \u2013 weighed in at 100,600 roubles (equivalent to almost \u00a31,500).<\/p>\n<p>Some other routes with stopovers, including those from Moscow to Tbilisi, were also unavailable, while the cheapest flights from the capital to Dubai were costing more than 300,000 roubles ($5,000) &#8211; about five times the average monthly wage.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, the Latvian foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics said his country, which borders Russia, will not offer refuge to any Russians fleeing Moscow\u2019s mobilisation of troops.<\/p>\n<p>A translation of his tweet reads: \u201cDue to security reasons, Latvia will not issue humanitarian or other types of visas to those Russian citizens who avoid mobilisation, nor will it change the border crossing restrictions for Russian citizens with Schengen visas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It comes after Mr Putin warned western leaders that Moscow would use \u201call the means\u201d at its disposal to \u201cprotect\u201d itself, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s not a bluff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a national address, the president accused western leaders of engaging in \u201cnuclear blackmail\u201d against Moscow &#8211; and said he has \u201clots of weapons to reply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also backed the call for referenda in eastern and southern Ukraine on becoming integral parts of Russia as he blamed the west for turning Ukrainians into \u201ccannon fodder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UK and US officials have said Mr Putin\u2019s mobilisation and \u201csham referenda\u201d are an \u201cadmission that his invasion is failing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-way flight tickets out of Russia were selling out fast after President Vladimir Putin ordered the partial mobilisation of Moscow\u2019s reserves in a major escalation of his war on Ukraine.The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1652489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1652489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}