By Matthew Roscoe • Updated: 26 Sep 2022 • 17:20
Russian rapper Timati denies fleeing Russia for Uzbekistan amid partial mobilisation. Image: Timati/Instagram
Following reports that he had fled to Uzbekistan, 39-year-old Russian rapper Timati wrote on Instagram: “I am in Moscow. At home. I wasn’t going to migrate anywhere and I don’t intend to, my place is here.”
He added: “I have not yet received a summons, but that does not mean there won’t be one.
“I am not in a state of panic and I am not in a state of shock because of all the talk about the “blocking of the sky” and “martial law”.
“I have accepted this situation for myself and I am living with it. As long as there is time, I will be engaged and develop all possible projects within the country, raising its GDP.
“There are a lot of current operations, and the demand for a good Russian product will only grow. We will be working.”
“As for mobilization, I get a lot of comments that people dream of seeing me in the trenches, if I am such a patriot, I have to prove it by example,” he said.
He added: “I partly agree with a number of these comments myself, sooner or later everyone who has lived, developed and got here will have to give back to the Motherland.
“Once again: If my accounting specialty is needed, I am ready.”
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The news comes after a Russian man in Ryazan set himself on fire at the bus station as he was about to be mobilised to go to war in Ukraine and a military commandant overseeing the draft in a Siberian town was shot.
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