POLITICS● ELEVATED2h ago · Oct 7, 2026, 10:45 PM
Russian man who swam from Kaliningrad to Lithuania in asylum attempt sentenced to six years hard labour
EuroNews [en] · baltic theater
A 68-year-old Russian man who swam across the Nemunas River from Russia's Kaliningrad exclave into neighbouring Lithuania in an attempt to seek asylum has been sentenced to six years in a strict-regime penal colony in Russia for "publicly justifying terrorism."
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