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HANSARD UkraineI think the whole House and everybody in the world would want President Putin to have chosen the path of negotiation. He had that moment. That is why, if the hon. Gentleman…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineOn the hon. Gentleman’s last point, the answer is certainly yes. For instance, the other day I was looking at two British minesweepers that are being refitted in Rosyth, as I am…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineThat is clearly the will of the House and it is the will of the Government, which is why we will be bringing forward those important measures on Monday.24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineYes.24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineI thank the hon. Lady very much for her support and her resolve. I want to assure her that we are of course working with our international friends to prepare for a humanitarian…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. There is a threat to communications already. We are observing it in the contacts we are having with people in Ukraine. Satellite phones are…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineAll political donations are properly registered and monitored. I can tell the hon. Lady that we are putting forward progressively over the last few days and weeks and today the…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineYes, I certainly can confirm that. I believe that, through this invasion, President Putin has done more than anybody else to bring his regime to an end. In the end, he will pay a…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineYes, of course.24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineMy hon. Friend is completely right. It is why one of the first things we did was to strengthen our presence in Estonia in the way I described, and why our Canadian friends are…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineI know that my right hon. Friend is a great military expert, and I understand the attractions of the no-fly zone. I remember the no-fly zone that was created in 1991, as I recall,…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to raise that appalling possibility, and it is vital that we reaffirm, again, that under article 5 of the North Atlantic treaty, we stand…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineI can tell the right hon. Gentleman that we will certainly be making sure that we are able to sanction—and that we do sanction—relatives and other interested parties. There will…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to remind the House of the 1994 Budapest memorandum, which had exactly that effect and created exactly that obligation on us as one of the…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineYes, we are doing that, although I think it is worth the House remembering the point that I made the other day: not every Russian is a bad person.24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineI have just come from a meeting of G7 leaders joined by Secretary-General Stoltenberg of NATO; with permission, I will update the House on our response to President Putin’s…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineMy hon. Friend is spot on—actually, the biggest thing would be if everybody stopped taking Russian hydrocarbons, but SWIFT is extremely important. It is a Belgian company, as I am…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineI want to say how grateful I am to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for the terms in which he has just spoken and for the robust support that he is offering to the Government…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineI thank my right hon. Friend. She is absolutely right about what the Government are setting out to do, and I do indeed believe that that will be the result for Putin and his…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineAgain, may I thank the right hon. Gentleman for the wisdom and the statesmanship with which he has just spoken? On his points, we have put 1,000 troops on stand-by to help with…24 Feb 2022