A strange development in the case of the partial conscription announced by Russia earlier this month: two men who escaped conscription into the Russian army arrived today (Thursday), for the first time since the conscription began and the mass flight from Russia that followed, to the sovereign territory of the United States.
According to the reports in the media in the state of Alaska, two men with Russian citizenship arrived by boat on the shores of Saint Lawrence Island, which is located 80 kilometers off the coast of Siberia in Russia.
The island is part of the state of Alaska in the United States and is home to about 1,400 citizens, the vast majority of whom are members of the Yupik nation, natives of the island.
A fight surrounding the recruitment in the city of Omsk in Russia
The two Russians were arrested as soon as they landed on the beach and taken to the city of Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, where the authorities are trying to find out what their status is and whether they should stay on the territory of the United States.
Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan from the state of Alaska admitted that the two citizens are Russians in a short press release on the spot and accepted that Alaska is not prepared for the arrival of citizens fleeing conscription in Russia.
"This incident makes two things clear: First, that the Russian people are not interested in fighting Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine. Second, Alaska's proximity to Russia indicates that Alaska has an important role in protecting the national security of its sovereign country," Senator Sullivan told local media. .
The incident is particularly embarrassing for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as senior officials in his regime have previously referred to Alaska as Russian territory that must be returned to Moscow's possession.
In February, Vychislav Velodin, a lawmaker in the Russian parliament, warned the United States not to impose sanctions on his country, as Moscow might re-demand the territory of Alaska.
"Nuclear panic" in Moscow
In the meantime, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, spoke this evening about the need for a preventive action against Moscow aimed at preventing a Russian nuclear attack.
Those around the president said that it was not a call to the Western countries to act, but to point out the fact that a pre-emptive attack could have prevented the Russian invasion in February, but in Moscow these things caused a series of harsh statements against the President of Ukraine.
The spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said: "The West is igniting a nuclear war. Every person on earth should know that Zelensky's unbalanced and weaponized character has become a monster, whose hands can destroy the world."
The former president of Russia and Putin's ally, Dmitry Medvedev, who threatened the West more than once with nuclear weapons, also called out on his Telegram channel: "Kind psychiatrists should give this idiot preventive cranial surgery before he causes even greater harm to his people and to everyone else."
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, photo: AFP
Sergei Nikiforov, Zelensky's spokesman, addressed the Russian officials and wrote: "My colleagues, you have gone a little too far with your nuclear hysteria and now you are hearing nuclear attacks even where there are none. The president was talking about the period leading up to February 24th. Then it was necessary to implement preventive measures to prevent from Russia to start a war. Let me remind you that the only measures discussed at that time were preventive sanctions."
"Only the terrorist state Russia allows itself to blackmail the world through explosions in the Zaporizhzhya reactor, and in any way imply the use of nuclear weapons. You will never hear such calls from Ukraine," added Nikiforov.
Last month, with the announcement of the referendums in the occupied regions of Ukraine, Putin blatantly hinted at Russian use of nuclear weapons and even added that "this is not a bluff".
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