UK ‘has not been quick enough’ on Ukrainian refugees, admits Ben Wallace

Defence secretary says country can do more, as he predicts Ukraine invasion will be ‘Putin’s end’

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The British defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has admitted the process for bringing Ukrainian refugees to the UK has “not been quick enough” and that it has been made more difficult by sending refugees to Paris from Calais.

He said efforts by the Ukrainians had shown that Vladimir Putin would not win the war in Ukraine and that the country would be impossible to occupy. “You try occupying a country the size of France and Germany put together with 44 million people,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

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