The race to flee Russia: One-way flights out of the country sell out as terrified civilians dreading military call-up try to escape after Putin announced troop mobilisation and threatened to use NUKES - prompting even China to call for a ceasefire
Vladimir Putin has threatened the West with nuclear weapons over Ukraine, telling leaders: 'I'm not bluffing'
Desperate despot also announced mobilisation of 300,000 reservists, first Russian mobilisation since WW2
Move sparked panic as flights sold out as civilians tried to escape a potential call-up to the war
Protests have sprung up across the country, with armed 'Cosmonaut' agents trying to quell the unrest
Occupied Ukrainian territories will be annexed to Russia, he said, and 'all means' will be used to defend them
Ukraine dismissed the threat, saying it is 'predictable' and shows the war is not going as Putin had planned
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By Chris Pleasance and Jack Newman and Will Stewart for MailOnline
Published: 07:40 EDT, 21 September 2022 | Updated: 10:24 EDT, 21 September 2022
Terrified Russians are scrambling to flee the country today with one-way flights out of Moscow sold out after Vladimir Putin sparked mass panic by ordering a troop mobilisation in a dramatic escalation of the Ukraine war.
Prices of the few remaining tickets sky-rocketed, driven by fears that Russia's borders could soon close or of a broader call-up that might send many men of fighting age to the war's front lines.
Tickets to Johannesburg for a family of three were earlier fetching £44,000, while the cheapest flights from the capital to Dubai were costing more than £8,000 - about ten times the average monthly wage, for a one-way economy fare.
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