The City where Thousands of Russians have fled since the Invasion of Ukraine | Foreign Correspondent

Since President Putin invaded Ukraine in February, some 200,000 Russians have fled their country, scattering across western and eastern Europe. Around 30,000 have landed in Georgia, a former Soviet country on Russia’s southern border, where it’s cheap to live and visas are easy to get. Nika Nikulshina can’t see herself going home any time soon. “I really think that I will not be able to go to Russia till Putin will, I don’t know, die, disappear, become a bug or something. So yes, I think we need to wait for his death.” The Russian refugees are distressed at the invasion of Ukraine and the brutal crackdown on free speech. Ekaterina and her husband Tikhon were high-profile presenters at the independent station in Moscow, TV Rain. When it shut down shortly after the invasion of Ukraine, they fled. “There is no guarantee that they will arrest you, but there’s no guarantee that they won’t. So there are much more chances that you’re going to be in jail, if