After travelling on to the Philippines, he flew to South Korea on Nov. 12, hoping to receive refugee status in what he considered one of Asia’s most stable democracies.He is one of five Russian men currently stranded in the country’s main international airport, Incheon, waiting for their asylum cases to be appealed.He said he and his compatriots live in a small room off the airport’s departures lounge, where they sleep on blankets atop a raised area of floor.Though he has very little money, as Russian bank cards have largely stopped working outside a handful of countries, he receives food from the South Korean justice ministry.His native region of Buryatia saw one of the most aggressive mobilisation campaigns in Russia, and he said that one of his closest school friends had already been killed in Ukraine."