High-speed trains departing Russia for Finland are packed.

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/world/europe/trains-russia-finland.html

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https://archive.ph/vGQht

Until this weekend, the daily high-speed trains from St. Petersburg to Helsinki would typically transport far fewer than the several hundred passengers each could accommodate. But on Saturday, a wave of travelers looking to leave Russia started packing trains destined for Finland.

“We’ve had full trains from St. Petersburg from Sunday onward,” Topi Simola, the senior vice president of passenger services at Finnish Railways, said in a telephone interview.

“They are leaving for good,” he said. “You can see that from the luggage they carry.”

Tatjana Erofgeva, who lives in Budapest, was visiting relatives in Russia when the invasion started, according the Finnish newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet. She took the morning train to Helsinki on Monday.

“It was the only way out of Russia,” Ms. Erofgeva was quoted as saying, noting that many countries had closed their airspace to Russian flights since the invasion of Ukraine last Thursday.

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[AlexSFCA]

1. is airspace closed to all planes originating from russia or russian airlines only?

[Nevilledog]

2. Good question. But says just Russian. But what non-Russian carriers would do it?

[AlexSFCA]

3. I only read the the airspace is close to russian planes

unless international airlines stopped flying voluntarily or there is in fact a ban on all flights originating from russia.

[Nevilledog]

4. I really don't know. Good question though.

[elleng]

5. To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Finland_Station

[Cha]

6. Rt TY Nice looking Train!

How scary to be caught in Russia when Vlad start Waging War on Ukraine!

[CanonRay]

7. The Finns had best be careful about who they let in

would be just like Putin to slip some disruptors in.

[Nevilledog]

8. Finns are good

[regnaD kciN]

9. That's what I've been wondering...

How many of those are Russians fleeing permanently, and how many are going to form a Russian community within Finland whose claimed “oppression” will give Pootie pretext to invade that non-NATO country as well?

[mitch96]

10. Seems to be in his M.O.... nt

[Gore1FL]

11. They'd rent a car and be out of fuel the first day.... nt

[UTUSN]

12. They otta stay and fight for their country!1