Putin seeking to weaponise threat of mass migration, warns Estonian PM

Kaja Kallas: ‘The lesson from 1938 and 1939 is that if aggression pays off somewhere, it will be taken up elsewhere.’ Photograph: Gints Ivuskans/AFP/Getty Images

Vladimir Putin is seeking to weaponise the threat of mass migration to divide and weaken Europe as supporters of Ukraine struggle to maintain unity to defeat Russia, Kaja Kallas, the Estonian prime minister, says.

“What our adversaries know is migration is our vulnerability,” she said. “The aim is to make life really impossible in Ukraine so that there would be migration pressure to Europe, and this is what they are doing.”