Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Ranger regiment has been deployed to Ukraine since Russia's invasion of that country in February 2022.

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 their whereabouts.