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DEFENCE – UKRAINE AND GLOBAL PEACE & SECURITY - 20 November 2023

DEFENCE – UKRAINE AND GLOBAL PEACE & SECURITY - 20 November 2023

Sir Julian Lewis: Does the Secretary of State agree that it is vital that his counterparts in the US Administration realise that if Putin does not lose in Ukraine, the peace and security of the whole of Europe is called into question, so it is in their short and medium-term interests to make sure that Putin is seen to fail?

[The Secretary of State for Defence (Grant Shapps): My right hon. Friend is characteristically correct about this, but I would widen that point: we are talking about the security of not just Europe, but the Indo-Pacific, and indeed the entire world. Putin must not win.]