Ireland to assess whether to take in fleeing Russians

Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin has said Ireland would have to assess whether it would be willing to accept Russians who are now fleeing the country, Report informs via The Journal.

“I think we’d have to assess all of that. I mean, in the first instance, we are accepting Ukrainian families who are fleeing war. That has been a priority for us, along with regular asylum-seeking applicants, which is way up this year.

We’ve never refused people who are fleeing because of conscience issues or fleeing persecution. So, for example, in Afghanistan, we would have facilitated several journalists and academics to leave Afghanistan because of the position they would have taken in respect of the Taliban,” he said.