Russian asylum seekers who boated to Alaska island are Indigenous, Murkowski says
The two men are from Provideniya in Chukotka, the Alaska senator said.
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Saturday provided some details about the two asylum seekers who traveled from the Russian Far East to Alaska’s St. Lawrence Island earlier this month to avoid being conscripted into the nation’s military. The two men are Indigenous Siberians, and they said Putin’s government is targeting ethnic minorities in rural areas, like themselves, to fight in Ukraine.
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