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Flights From Russia Sell Out Minutes After Putin Announces Mobilization
Gerrard Kaonga - 3h ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting on the military-industrial complex at the Kremlin, September 20, 2022, in Moscow, Russia. Flights from Russia sell out after Putin makes speech about "partial mobilization" against Ukraine.© Getty

Vladimir Putin today made a speech announcing that the conflict in Ukraine would be escalated, resulting in citizens attempting to leave the country.
In Putin's speech, he said there would be a partial mobilization of the military. Reservists and ex-military personnel with "certain military specialties and relevant experience" will be subject to conscription, he said.
Following this, according to the Russian online newspaper Lenta, flights to Armenia, Turkey and Georgia sold out.
"All tickets for direct flights to Istanbul and Yerevan were sold out in a few minutes after Putin's address," the publication's Twitter page wrote in a caption.




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Все билеты на прямые рейсы в Стамбул и Ереван раскупили за несколько минут после обращения Путина











3:45 AM · Sep 21, 2022

It also shared screenshots of the pages and how they could not be booked.
E Rosalie L, a Johns Hopkins interdisciplinary scholar, also said that the costs of flights began to skyrocket yesterday, when Putin was initially set to make his speech.

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Putin's cancelled speech appears to have set Moscow ablaze with anxiety. For a hypothetical family of three (let's say a mom, a dad, and an adult son), a flight from Moscow to Istanbul is now approaching $3200.

8:10 PM · Sep 20, 2022·Twitter Web App


It also shared screenshots of the pages and how they could not be booked.
E Rosalie L, a Johns Hopkins interdisciplinary scholar, also said that the costs of flights began to skyrocket yesterday, when Putin was initially set to make his speech.




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Putin's cancelled speech appears to have set Moscow ablaze with anxiety. For a hypothetical family of three (let's say a mom, a dad, and an adult son), a flight from Moscow to Istanbul is now approaching $3200.


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Putin's cancelled speech appears to have set Moscow ablaze with anxiety. For a hypothetical family of three (let's say a mom, a dad, and an adult son), a flight from Moscow to Istanbul is now approaching $3200.



8:10 PM · Sep 20, 2022

"Putin's canceled speech appears to have set Moscow ablaze with anxiety," she tweeted.
"For a hypothetical family of three (let's say a mom, a dad, and an adult son), a flight from Moscow to Istanbul is now approaching $3,200."
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