Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment has he made of the degree of involvement of Belarus in Russia’s war against Ukraine since February 2022.

Belarus has been a crucial enabler of Russia's prosecution of its war against Ukraine; Russian military forces invaded Northern Ukraine from Belarusian territory on 24 February 2022. Even after these forces were forced to withdraw in March, Belarus has continued to host Russian military forces, including aircraft and surface missiles that have continued to regularly launch strikes into Ukraine. The Lukashenko regime is being made to feel the consequences for its support for Putin. The government continues to hold the Belarusian regime to account for its facilitation of and ongoing support to Russia's illegal war in Ukraine.