The number of Russian refugees in the West has always been small, and they were mostly residents of Chechnya, political activists or members of the LGBTQ+ community. In 2022, however, asylum requests from Russians more than doubled in the EU and increased almost 50-fold in the US, and most of them flee their country as they oppose the war, or they are deserters and potential soldiers seeking to avoid military enlistment.
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@0x815 what happens in Russia now is a silent humanitarian crisis and we should be aware of it. It’s easy to label every Russian as killer, orc, murderer, criminal etc. And many of them are deliberately supporting the war and Putin’s regime. Yet many others are just deprived of their voices, of their choice. They did whatever they could to prevent this situation from happening, yet failed.
I genuinely do hope they will be able to get asylum wherever they can, until the whole madness ends.
Yes, unfortunately not all countries grant asylum I’m afraid.
@0x815 Yea. I’m following Roman (NFKRZ) on YT and he says that it is hard as hell to get asylum. And if you don’t get it from the first time, you’ll have even less chances further going.