Question to the Ministry of Defence:

What recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Ukrainian defence against Russian forces.

Ukrainian forces remain tenacious and have inflicted heavy losses in their defence against Russia’s illegal invasion. Its forces are better equipped, trained and have higher morale than their often tactically inept and incompetent enemy. Pressure by Ukrainian forces made Russia’s occupation of the west side of the Dnipro River untenable, whereas Russian forces have only made incremental and costly gains against Ukrainian defences in the Donbas.