Asylum doesn’t seem to be allowed… “I can’t compromise domestic safety”
Poland and the three Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), which border Russia, have decided not to allow asylum for men fleeing Russia to escape conscription, the Wall Street Journal reported on the 23rd (local time).
It is reported that the two countries have agreed to a joint policy to exclude expanding the “standard of asylum” that could lead to the entry of Russians who fled to escape the military mobilization order issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Officials interviewed by the WSJ said they could not do anything that would endanger the country’s internal safety by accepting a large number of potential conscripts.
This policy was also influenced by the government’s little sympathy for Russians, who have long been unopposed sympathizers for Russia’s invasions of Georgia, Crimea and other military interventions, the WSJ reported.
The WSJ analyzed that such a hard line between Poland and the Baltic States partially explains the strategy for ending the war in Ukraine.
These countries cannot undermine President Vladimir Putin’s political power without intensifying the suffering of ordinary Russians, and the pressure on the regime to criticize will ease if the Russians, who must decide whether to go to prison or go to war, flee to the comforts of Europe. that it is expected to be
“We must always think of the goal of ending the war,” said Boutele Fay, an adviser to the Estonian Interior Minister.
Poland and the Baltic States have been blocking the entry of most Russians since the 19th.
As a result, the only land route to the EU was virtually left in Finland.
Although the Finnish government has 11 checkpoints open at the Russian border, it has decided on the 23rd to significantly reduce the number of Russian entrants entering or passing through Finland to other European countries.
Within the European Union (EU), each country’s position is divided on whether or not to accept Russians seeking asylum to avoid military mobilization.
Unlike the EU countries adjacent to Russia, France and Germany hold the view that young Russians, civil society activists and opponents of Putin should have access to the EU.
/yunhap news