Ukraine Debate

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Department: Ministry of Defence

Ukraine

Lord Berkeley Excerpts
Tuesday 18th January 2022

(2 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Goldie Portrait Baroness Goldie (Con)
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As I said earlier, the UK is looking at a package of broad and high-impact sanctions to raise the cost of any further aggressive actions by President Putin. I cannot comment on the detail of what these proposals are, but we are ready to act—and, as my right honourable friend in the other place indicated yesterday, we are not alone. A range of sanctions is available that are going to be enacted if there is any deterioration in the situation.

Lord Berkeley Portrait Lord Berkeley (Lab)
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There are terrible things going on in Belarus, between Belarus and Poland. I have some friends in the Baltic states who are reporting similar troop build-ups along the frontiers with Russia there. I suspect similar things are happening towards the south, east of the Black Sea. Are the Government aware of Mr Putin’s attempts, shall we say, to recreate the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and what are we doing about it? Are we just going to wait till it gets worse?