> putin still has not gone to war, nor threatened to invade the EU yet to the point of international incident.

Russian agents are thought to have committed numerous acts, almost all of which could be considered acts of war, on EU/UK soil, or against EU/UK nationals

* Poisoning of the Skripals with a chemical warfare agent, one dead, 2018, Salisbury, England, UK [0]

* Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko with a radioisotope, one dead, 2006, London, England, UK [1]

* Vrbětice ammunition warehouse explosions, one dead, 2014, Zlín Region, Czechia [2]

* Jamming of GPS signals used by EU President Ursula von der Leyen's jet, 2025, Bulgaria [3]

* Arson of the Marywilska 44 shopping center, 2024, Warsaw, Poland [4]

* Shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 over the Donbas, 2014, 283 dead, most of them Netherlands citizens [5]

* Sabotage of underwater telecommunications cables, railway lines, cyberattacks, probing airspace with armed aircraft, and on and on - just Google it, I don't have enough time to mention all of these.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Vrbětice_ammunition_wareh...

[3] https://apnews.com/article/russia-europe-jamming-spoofing-gp...

[4] https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/12/poland-confirms-russi...

[5] https://www.britannica.com/event/Malaysia-Airlines-flight-17