Terrified Russians are scrambling to flee the country today with one-way flights out of Moscow sold out after Vladimir Putin sparked mass panic by ordering a troop mobilisation in a dramatic escalation of the Ukraine war.
Prices of the few remaining tickets sky-rocketed, driven by fears that Russia’s borders could soon close or of a broader call-up that might send many men of fighting age to the war’s front lines.
Tickets to Johannesburg for a family of three were earlier fetching £44,000,…