Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to help mitigate Russian influence in the western Balkans.

The UK is at the forefront of international efforts to counter Russian influence in the Western Balkans. Through our programme funds we are helping strengthen the resilience of the region across areas such as cyber security, defence capacity building and countering disinformation, including through the recent deployment of a military counter-disinformation expert to support NATO HQ Sarajevo in countering false Russian narratives in Bosnia and Herzegovina.