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. Even so, Dunleavy downplayed the risk of a “continual stream” of Russian asylum seekers trying to cross the Bering Sea to reach US territory. A US Air Force F-22 fighter intercepts a Russian Tu-95 Bear bomber over the Bering Sea on Oct. 19, 2020. Since Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the measure on Sept. 21, hundreds of thousands of Russians have fled their homeland. “This incident makes two things clear: First, the Russian people don’t want to fight Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine.

Source: CNN October 07, 2022 18:16 UTC