RT: Potential conscripts evade draft, flee country amid escalation in E. Ukraine

Update: Number of Ukrainians of conscription age seeking refuge in Russia up by 20,000 in a week -- ITAR-TASS

WNU Editor: Reports on Ukrainians fleeing conscription are mainly coming from Russian media .... but I know that they are true .... among my own relatives all males of military age have found an excuse to be in Russia, to study in London, or be elsewhere. And everyone is telling me the same thing .... resentment is growing against the draft, and almost everyone is looking for a way to evade it. But this reluctance in Ukraine for conscription is not only isolated in Ukraine .... many Russian families are getting worried that their sons who have been conscripted to serve in the Russian army may find themselves fighting in Ukraine .... The Families Of Russian Conscripts Are Afraid That Their Sons Will Be Sent To Ukraine