James Heappey: As the Secretary of State for Defence said in his statement of 17 January 2022, we deployed UK personnel, including from the Ranger Regiment, to Ukraine to provide training on anti-tank weapons before the Russian invasion. They left Ukraine in early February after delivering this training. For operational reasons, we will not comment on the exact number of UK military personnel in Ukraine or...
David Lidington: ...self-propelled artillery units inside Ukraine in the vicinity of the Luhansk province. Brigadier-General Nico Tak, Head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) crisis management centre, said that NATO had also detected large quantities of advanced weapons, including air defence systems, artillery, tanks and armoured personnel carriers being transferred to separatist forces in...
David Lidington: There has been intense work to persuade Russia to come to the negotiating table with the Government of Ukraine and to discuss their stated concerns face to face. As the Prime Minister said to the House on 10 March 2014, Official Report, column 25, the idea of a contact group, including other countries and organisations, was one that the Prime Minister first proposed to the Polish Prime...
Denis MacShane: ...at the European Council. The Government are pleased that the situation in Ukraine remains peaceful and that a solution was reached within Ukraine's legal framework. As the Foreign Secretary said in his statement to the House on 29 November, Official Report, column 359, the Government look forward to an outcome to the elections that reflects the will of the Ukrainian people. China Arms...
