A member of the Russian parliament has called for Alaska to be returned to the country from the US in a bizarre political twist.
Facing massive sanctions from around the world, designed to grind down the Russian economy as Vladimir Putin wages his devastating war in Ukraine, the Duma member Oleg Matveychev called on Alaska to be returned as reparations for the sanctions.
Matveychev said: "We should be thinking about reparations from the damage that was caused by the sanctions and the war itself because that too costs money and we should get it back."
