Ukraine situation sees Wallace visit Netherlands and Germany

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace this week held meetings in The Hague, Brussels and Berlin, continuing a period of diplomacy over the situation in Ukraine.

With the continuing Russian threat to the people and sovereignty of Ukraine, Wallace held talks with Dutch Minister of Defence Kajsa Ollongren in the Hague, with the Secretary General Jens Stoltenber in Brussels and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Tod D. Wolters.

He then travelled to Berlin for his first visit since the formation of the new German government and the appointment of the new German defence minister, Christine Lambrecht.

Wallace said: “Germany and the Netherlands are great friends of the United Kingdom. From my meetings with Ministers Ollongren and Lambrecht, and my discussions with Secretary Stoltenberg, I have no doubt that NATO is united in its determination to uphold European Security and that any further Russian invasion of Ukraine would be a strategic mistake met by swift and severe consequences.”