Overview
- Belarusian border authorities said Russian citizens who have received draft notices will not be allowed to leave the country via Belarus.
- Officials said they check a common Russia–Belarus database that shows whether a Russian traveler is barred from exiting and told those blocked to address the ban with Russian authorities.
- Rights lawyers reported that a man on the conscription list was stopped from flying out of Minsk National Airport while trying to travel to Georgia and Armenia.
- Under Russia’s 2023 digital summons law, a call-up posted online counts as served after seven days and skipping it can trigger an automatic ban on foreign travel.
- An NGO that helps conscientious objectors expects denials to rise as cooperation tightens, which could further close a route many Russians have used to reach Georgia and Armenia.