Two Russians Flee Draft By Taking Boat To Alaska

Russia’s war with Ukraine is Russia’s Vietnam…

Two Russian soldiers arrived on an Alaskan island in the Bering Sea in hopes to avoid fighting Russia’s war in Ukraine.

In the last several months’ President Putin has called thousands of reservists to fight the War in Ukraine but many of them believe it’s an unnecessary war.

The two Russians easily making it to the US territory without any repercussions just goes to show if the US continues to support  Ukraine financially then a Russian invasion of Alaska is sure to come.

Russian nationals flee military service, request asylum in Alaska https://t.co/P7y4GALxKY

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 6, 2022

Two Russian men sail to Alaska in boat to avoid draft, seek asylum https://t.co/ENVKqvwx3l pic.twitter.com/cHjcqIBpld

— New York Post (@nypost) October 6, 2022

Just The News had more on the story:

Two Russians arrived on a remote Alaskan island in the Bering Sea by boat to seek asylum in the U.S. to escape President Vladimir Putin’s mobilization of military reservists, according to the state’s U.S. senators and government officials.

Putin issued a mobilization decree to draft 300,000 reservists for his invasion of Ukraine, but an estimated 200,000 Russians have fled as a result, The Washington Post reports.

The two Russians who fled their country arrived at a beach near the town of Gambell, a small Alaska Native community of about 600 people on St. Lawrence Island, which is 36 miles from the Chukotka Peninsula, Siberia, according to the Associated Press.

A spokesperson for GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski told the wire service Thursday that “the Russian nationals reported that they fled one of the coastal communities on the east coast of Russia to avoid compulsory military service.”

Murkowkski reportedly said: “We are actively engaged with federal officials and residents in Gambell to determine who these individuals are, but right now, we already know that the federal response was lacking. Only local officials and state law enforcement had the capability to immediately respond to the asylum seekers, while Customs and Border Protection had to dispatch a Coast Guard aircraft from over 750 miles away to get on the scene.”

Two Russian men detained after sailing 300km across the Bering Strait to Alaska, and telling locals they're "fleeing the Russian military".https://t.co/f6qusPn3Wf

— Felix Light (@felix_light) October 6, 2022

The New York Post had these details to add:

Two Russian nationals sailed to Alaska in a small boat to escape the country’s military draft — and they’re now seeking asylum in the US after being detained by federal officials, authorities said Thursday.

The men made the treacherous, 300-mile journey from Egvekinot, Russia to the sleepy Alaskan island of St. Lawrence to avoid fighting in the nation’s brutal war against Ukraine, the office of Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said, according to the UK Guardian.

“They fled one of the coastal communities on the east coast of Russia to avoid compulsory military service,” said Karina Borger, a spokeswoman for Murkowski.

The asylum-seekers voyaged across a frigid strip of the Bering Sea and arrived in the tiny town of Gambell on Tuesday, according to Alaska NewsSource. They were then promptly detained by Customs and Border Protection officials in Anchorage.

Two Russian men fleeing the draft navigated nearly 300 miles of rough fall Bering Sea waters, landing on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska.

“The men told villagers they had sailed their boat from the city of Egvekinot in Northeastern Russia”https://t.co/dg1hHVmf0s pic.twitter.com/n2r4yNosJg

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 6, 2022