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HANSARD UkraineI thank the monitoring mission teams. They are wonderful. I have met them and they do a fantastic job. I am sorry that they have had to be withdrawn, for the duty of care reasons…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineI will of course immediately investigate what is happening with the Sovcomflot oil tanker. The result of the measures that the House passed the other day is that we can now target…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and it is why we are working on setting up a particular international war crimes tribunal for those involved in war crimes in the Ukraine…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, absolutely, and not just him but, as the House has heard over the last few days, as many of his immediate cronies and family as we can hit.24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineMy hon. Friend is quite right. He is a distinguished former soldier and he knows that truth is the first casualty. We have to make sure that we are telling people exactly what is…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 UkraineThe hon. Gentleman raises an important point. That is why in our discussions with President Zelensky we are seeing what we can do to give them the practical support they need to…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineI thank my right hon. Friend and that is exactly what we can now do thanks to the measures this House has passed.24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineI must say I disagree profoundly with what the hon. Gentleman has to say about negotiating now. I do not think that that option is open to us. We must do our best to support and…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineThe hon. Lady is absolutely right that there is a continual struggle beneath the surface of the sea between submarines that are out to sever cables and those of us who are trying…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineMy right hon. Friend raises a very important issue. We are working on exactly those supplies right now.24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineYes, I am afraid my right hon. Friend is right. It will mean cost, it will mean inconvenience, it will mean difficulty for us in the UK, but that will be a price worth paying for…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineAs so often, my right hon. Friend is precisely right. That is why, together with my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Defence and the Foreign Secretary, we have been…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineI thank the hon. Gentleman for that. We will have to see what further downstream effects there are on collaboration of all kinds. Hitherto, I have been broadly in favour of…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineYes, and not only is that true, but the opportunity and the reward for success and being strong are huge, because if this should end with the rejection of aggression and the…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineThe hon. Lady raises a good point. What we are doing is a massive, positive strat comms campaign in Russian and in Ukrainian to make sure that people get the truth and hear the…24 Feb 2022HANSARD UkraineI thank the hon. Lady very much. I think I read out a helpline number in the House on Tuesday. I do not have it with me. There is a number both in Lviv and in this country, but if…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