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Sometimes, you just gotta get away — especially if you’re a Russian man trying to avoid a national mobilization roundup that promises an express ticket to the front lines in Ukraine, where tens of thousands of your countrymen have already died.
Epitomizing the lengths to which some Russian men will go to avoid service in their country’s so-called special military operation against Ukraine, two Russians took a boat some 300 miles across the treacherous waters of the Bering Sea on Tuesday, Oct. 4, seeking asylum in the US.
After landing in the small Alaskan seaside community of Gambell, located on remote St. Lawrence Island, the two seafarers told locals they’d fled the Russian military, Alaska’s News Source reported. The pair reportedly embarked from the northeastern Russian city of Egvekinot, a journey of some 300 miles from Gambell.
In a joint statement with fellow Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan, Sen. Lisa Murkowski referred to the two Russians as “asylum seekers.”
“This situation underscores the need for a stronger security posture in America’s Arctic,” Murkowski said in the Thursday joint statement.
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https://www.coffeeordie.com/alaska-russians-bering-sea
Sometimes, you just gotta get away — especially if you’re a Russian man trying to avoid a national mobilization roundup that promises an express ticket to the front lines in Ukraine, where tens of thousands of your countrymen have already died.
Epitomizing the lengths to which some Russian men will go to avoid service in their country’s so-called special military operation against Ukraine, two Russians took a boat some 300 miles across the treacherous waters of the Bering Sea on Tuesday, Oct. 4, seeking asylum in the US.
After landing in the small Alaskan seaside community of Gambell, located on remote St. Lawrence Island, the two seafarers told locals they’d fled the Russian military, Alaska’s News Source reported. The pair reportedly embarked from the northeastern Russian city of Egvekinot, a journey of some 300 miles from Gambell.
In a joint statement with fellow Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan, Sen. Lisa Murkowski referred to the two Russians as “asylum seekers.”
“This situation underscores the need for a stronger security posture in America’s Arctic,” Murkowski said in the Thursday joint statement.
