The exodus signaled the extent people were willing to go to avoid being sent to fight in Ukraine.
Vehicles line up to cross the border from Russia to Finland at the Nuijamaa border checkpoint in Lappeenranta, Finland, on Sept, 22. Photo: Lauri Heino / Lehtikuva / AFP via Getty Images
Analysts have questioned whether the Russian military has the wherewithal to train and equip hundreds of thousands of soldiers, many of whom likely don't want to fight this war,Lines of cars packed with people fleeing the country backed up at the Russian border with Finland and stretched for miles at its borders with Georgia and Kazakhstan, AP reports.
Some have fled to Belarus, a close Russian ally that has ordered its security forces to round up Russian men found fleeing the draft and report them to Russian authorities, per AP.
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