According to the office of U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, two Russians who claimed to have escaped their nation to avoid being forced into the military have landed on a lonely island in the Bering Sea and are now applying for asylum in the United States.
According to Karina Burger, a spokeswoman for Murkowski, “the two Russian citizens indicated that they fled a coastal village on Russia’s east coast to evade required military service.” The office is in communication with the Coast Guard and US Customs and Border Protection.
The US Department of Homeland Security did not respond until Thursday after being referred to by the Coast Guard, Customs, and Border Protection officials.
Senators Murkowski and Dan Sullivan of the Alaskan Republican Party claimed that one of the 600 remote settlements on St. Lawrence Island, Gambill, is where the two Russians landed.
Although Sullivan said he was alerted of the incident on Tuesday morning by a “prominent community leader from the Bering Strait region,” the statement made no mention of when the tragedy occurred.
Gambil is 58 kilometres from the Chukotka Peninsula in Siberia and 320 kilometres from the Axial Pool near Nome, Alaska.
Two Russians who managed to avoid mobilisation request asylum in America.
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