Telegraph: Is Putin seeking to flood Europe with irregular migrants?. European Union's border police, Frontex, says it saw Russia using migration "as a tool in a larger game of influence and pressure" The agency warned that Putin's increasingly choosing to transport migrants to Europe - whether along Russia's eastern borders or through other regions, including Africa - poses a major threat to security in 2024.
According to the Telegraph, 52,530 irregular migrants were recorded entering the United Kingdom until June 2023.