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On March 29, 2025, a Ukranian-American [[YouTuber]] from Arizona, Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, made an unauthorised landing on the island.[{{Cite news |date=2025-04-03 |title=With coconut & coke, American tried to befriend Sentinelese in Andaman and Nicobar islands |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/with-coconut-coke-american-tried-to-befriend-sentinelese/articleshow/119918623.cms |access-date=2025-04-03 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}] He was subsequently arrested by the [[Indian Police Service]] with a view to prosecution.[{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/03/us-tourist-arrested-for-landing-on-forbidden-indian-tribal-island |title=US tourist arrested for landing on forbidden Indian tribal island|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=3 April 2025|access-date=4 April 2025}}] Indigenous rights organisation [[Survival International]], which advocates for uncontacted peoples globally, condemned the illegal actions as "deeply disturbing", noting that uncontacted peoples like the Sentinelese are vulnerable to being wiped out by contact-induced diseases to which they have no immunity.[{{Cite news|date=2025-04-02 |title=Attempted contact with the Sentinelese tribe: Survival International response|url=https://survivalinternational.org/news/14169 |access-date=2025-04-04 |work=Survival International |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}] Polyakov was reported to have left [[Diet Coke]] and a coconut as "offerings" to the people of the island.[{{Cite news |last=Hauser |first=Christine |last2=Kumar |first2=Hari |date=2025-04-04 |title=YouTuber Is Arrested After Leaving Diet Coke on Isolated Tribe’s Island |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/asia/north-sentinel-island-us-man-arrested.html |access-date=2025-04-07 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}] |
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On March 29, 2025, a Ukrainian-American [[YouTuber]] from Arizona, Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, made an unauthorised landing on the island.[{{Cite news |date=2025-04-03 |title=With coconut & coke, American tried to befriend Sentinelese in Andaman and Nicobar islands |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/with-coconut-coke-american-tried-to-befriend-sentinelese/articleshow/119918623.cms |access-date=2025-04-03 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}] He was subsequently arrested by the [[Indian Police Service]] with a view to prosecution.[{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/03/us-tourist-arrested-for-landing-on-forbidden-indian-tribal-island |title=US tourist arrested for landing on forbidden Indian tribal island|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=3 April 2025|access-date=4 April 2025}}] Indigenous rights organisation [[Survival International]], which advocates for uncontacted peoples globally, condemned the illegal actions as "deeply disturbing", noting that uncontacted peoples like the Sentinelese are vulnerable to being wiped out by contact-induced diseases to which they have no immunity.[{{Cite news|date=2025-04-02 |title=Attempted contact with the Sentinelese tribe: Survival International response|url=https://survivalinternational.org/news/14169 |access-date=2025-04-04 |work=Survival International |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}] Polyakov was reported to have left [[Diet Coke]] and a coconut as "offerings" to the people of the island.[{{Cite news |last=Hauser |first=Christine |last2=Kumar |first2=Hari |date=2025-04-04 |title=YouTuber Is Arrested After Leaving Diet Coke on Isolated Tribe’s Island |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/asia/north-sentinel-island-us-man-arrested.html |access-date=2025-04-07 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}] |
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