Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has made an assessment of potential strategic coordination between China and Russia on the future and security of Ukraine.

We are watching the situation in Ukraine closely, alongside wider factors which may have a destabilising effect or play into Russia's decision-making calculus. Russia's aggressive posturing is not acceptable; we urge President Putin to withdraw his forces from the Ukrainian border and defuse this situation immediately.