PoliticsRussian officials reportedly seek foreign accounts and move assets abroad amid mobilization rumors
Senior Russian officials have reportedly spent months trying to open foreign bank accounts and transfer assets overseas amid rumors of a new mobilization, Bloomberg said, citing documents it obtained. The outlet said draft-office employees were doing the same and advising relatives and friends to leave Russia. Speculation of a post-election mobilization has circulated for weeks. Volodymyr Zelensky has alleged that up to 300,000 people could be mobilized, while Vladimir Putin says no current scenario requires it and calls the reports “utter nonsense” and an “information attack” on Russia.
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Russian officials reportedly seek foreign accounts and move assets abroad amid mobilization rumors