Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support his Department is providing to the Ukrainian navy.

The UK announced the sale of two Sandown Class Minehunters to Ukraine last year as part of the Ukrainian Naval Capabilities Enhancement Programme (UNCEP). We remain committed to this agreement and have started training Ukrainian Navy personnel to operate the vessels.

In addition, building on the success of Operation ORBITAL, the UK-led Maritime Training Initiative (MTI) began training in September 2020. Maritime courses have been delivered across a broad range of areas such as damage control, firefighting, military diving, operational and logistics planning, tactical navigation, sea surveillance and vessel boarding search and seizure.