After waiting in vain for an EU policy, Finland issued its own guidelines—resulting in most asylum applications from Russians fleeing mobilization being denied.
The Russians should be treated like the Japanese in the U.S. during WWII, President Pavel said, stopping just short of suggesting internment camps, as it’s “simply the cost of war.”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is the most prominent political figure to reject such an indiscriminate penalty; it is “not their war,” but that of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he has said.
