Shocked and worried citizens are attempting to flee Russia after President Vladimir Putin called up 300,000 reservists to help him fight the war against Ukraine today.
In a rare televised address to his nation, the tyrant declared a "partial mobilisation" of his country.
He said: “When the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people. This is not a bluff.”
“Those who are trying to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the wind patterns can also turn in their direction,” the president added - accusing the US and allies of seeking to “destroy” Russia.
Following his shocking address, a traffic jam at the border with Russia and Finland has piled up as desperate citizens attempt to flee the country.
Reportedly, the queue has already snaking to 20 miles long, and is unsurprisingly growing by the hour.
Independent journalist, Sotiri Dimpinoudis, took to social media to share first-hand footage of the traffic jam.
Posting the video to Twitter, Sotiri wrote that the border is the only one that, "is still open for Russian civilians with Shengen visas, after #Putin announced he will send 300.000 new troops to #Ukraine."
The video pans around to stationary cars - which can be seen going for miles and miles - as people patiently wait beside their vehicles.
And as he zooms off into the distance, a caption reads: "P.S People are just people everywhere."
The addition of today's announcement of troops would be more than the approximately 180,000 the US estimated Russia massed to Ukraine's borders at the beginning of the war, on February 24.
And in Moscow's first update on casualty numbers in almost six months, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu today said that 5,937 Russian soldiers had been killed since the start of the conflict.
Today is the first time Russia had given an official death toll since March 25, when it said 1,351 servicemen had died.
He also went on to claim that he believes Russia has a whopping 25 million potential fighters at its disposal.
