"For Putin, it s kind of reasonable to send one ethnic minority group to conquer another ethnic minority group," Vladimir Budaev of the Free Buryatia Foundation told Newsweek.
The order signed by Vladimir Putin is attracting criticism from the Kremlin's own official supporters, something almost unheard of in Russia since the invasion began.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the government does not plan to seal off borders as tens of thousands of cars with fleeing Russians, mostly men, cross into Georgia, Finland, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia.
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