'Alaska Is Ours!' Billboards appear in Russia after threat to reclaim state

War, territorial integrity, expansionism and global order are a few words that we constantly encounter-especially since the onset of the war in Ukraine. One such expression 'Alaska Is Ours!' is taking the international community by surprise and bringing back the notions of expansionism and territorial integrity.

Billboards proclaiming "Alaska Is Ours!" have been sighted in Russia one day after a key ally of Russian President suggested that the country could reclaim the territory that was sold to the U.S. in 1867.

Multiple billboards representing the slogan surprised residents in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk after being spotted on Thursday, according to Krasnoyarsk news agency NGS24.

A day earlier, Putin ally and State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin hinted that Russia could "take back" Alaska in retaliation for economic sanctions imposed on Russia following the country's invasion of Ukraine.

"Let America always remember: there's a piece of territory, Alaska," Volodin said during a State Duma session, according to The Moscow Times. "When they try to manage our resources abroad, let them think before they act that we, too, have something to take back."