Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the threat posed by Belarus to Ukraine.

The UK remains vigilant to the threat Belarus poses to Ukraine. Given Russia's illegal military actions in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus's joint deployment of their 'Regional Group of Forces', risks escalating regional instability. The UK Government has already imposed extensive sanctions against the Belarusian regime and regime-linked individuals and entities for their support of Putin's illegal war. With our allies, we will maintain this pressure on Lukashenko's regime until he withdraws his support to and facilitation of Russia's invasion. Furthermore, we will not hesitate to impose further sanctions should the Belarusian regime increase their involvement in this illegal war.