The Daily Populous Monday February 2nd, 2026 evening edition
Authored by uk.news.yahoo.com and submitted by yahoonews

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bluesman56 on February 2nd, 2026 at 10:36 UTC »

Just one more argument for Europe to stop being naive, to prepare for the worst and to arm itself to the teeth.

JaffaSG1 on February 2nd, 2026 at 09:51 UTC »

… as if they weren‘t doing that already

yahoonews on February 2nd, 2026 at 09:38 UTC »

The Telegraph reports - Estonia’s foreign minister, Margus Tsahkna, has proposed a blanket ban on Russian soldiers who fought in Ukraine from the European Union’s Schengen free-travel zone in response to the Kremlin’s plans to dispatch “ex-prisoners and rapists” to wage hybrid war in the bloc.

“We have close to one million combatants in Russia right now,” Mr Tsahkna told The Telegraph on the sidelines of an EU meeting in Brussels.

“Russia and Putin are already using different people to commit attacks on our societies, but when there will be peace, we can imagine that we will have hundreds of thousands of ex-combatants coming to Europe.

“And they’re definitely not going with good plans to earn their own salaries and pay taxes. They come with real bad plans. We already see the special agencies of Russia organising different attacks in Europe.”