Immediately following Vladimir Putin's announcement last week of partial mobilization, there were reports that airline tickets from Russia were selling out in minutes.

The number of Russians entering the EU has increased by 30 percent in the past week, according to the Union's border guard agency Frontex.

A total of 66,000 Russians have crossed the border into EU countries, two-thirds of them have sought Finland.

How many came to Sweden is unclear.

"Frontex expects that illegal border crossings will likely increase if Russia decides to close the border to potential conscripts," the agency writes in a statement.

There are no flights to the EU, but destinations such as Turkey, Armenia and Serbia are still accessible by air.

Kilometer-long queues

For those who do not have the opportunity to fly out of the country, it is necessary to get to a border crossing, and that is what many are now doing.

At the border crossings with Georgia, the queues are long and the number of Russians arriving daily in neighboring Georgia has almost doubled, Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri told reporters on Tuesday, according to AFP.

- Four, five days ago, 5,000-6,000 arrived in Georgia daily.

The number has now grown to around 10,000 per day.

Meanwhile, the Russian security service FSB has confirmed that it is sending personnel to the Verchnij Lars border crossing on the Russian-Georgian border to ensure that reservists do not leave the country without the necessary documents, the BBC reports.

The world's second longest border

Kazakhstan, which shares the world's second-longest border with neighboring Russia, has been struggling to accommodate up to 100,000 Russians since September 21.

Kazakhstan's government, headed by President Kasym-Zjomart Tokayev, has previously been openly critical of Russia's war in Ukraine.

In a speech on Tuesday, the president said that the Russians fleeing the "hopeless situation in the country" will be taken care of.

- We have to make sure they are safe here.

This is a political and humanitarian matter.

Finland has also received tens of thousands of Russians.

See the long queues at the countries' borders in the video above.