I don’t know about soldiers, but the west could definitely hurt Russia economically by giving visas to Russian engineers.
I have a jewish-Russian family relative that works as a software engineer (therefore wasn’t conscripted), and fled from Russia when the banking sanctions began.
First to Turkey, then he got an Israelj passport and now he lives in Portugal with his wife and kid. He was lucky to move his savings from bank to bank before the sanctions really hit.
If he wasn’t jewish he couldn’t have make this travel. Best option for engineers who don’t want to work for Putin right now is going to Turkey, and if they’re rich then maybe Cyprus.
… and despite all the traveling and banking problems I still failed to convince him to invest in Bitcoin 🤦‍♂️