Russia’s impending doom of censorship and sanctions meant I had no choice but to flee
The TelegraphAs I queued at a cash machine with another dozen disorientated Russians in Tbilisi, Georgia, a local man stopped, whistled at us, and shouted: “Russian warship, go f— yourself! Russians, go f— yourselves!” We immediately recognised the warship quote, first spoken by a group of Ukrainian border guards as they refused to surrender an island on the first day of the Russian invasion. Since the invasion started almost two weeks ago, more than 1.5 million Ukrainians have fled to central Europe and further afield in a desperate escape from Russian bombs. But tens of thousands of Russians - most of them well-educated, urban and with an international outlook - have now fled Vladimir Putin’s regime and what appears to be an imminent new Iron Curtain.
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