Wallace last year recommended helping Ukraine carry out a strike on the bridge linking Russia to annexed Crimea.
Russia has placed British former Defence Minister Ben Wallace on a wanted list in connection with an unspecified criminal investigation, according to the Russian Interior Ministry’s database cited by state media.
State-run news agency TASS quoted an unnamed source in law enforcement as saying that the investigation was linked to “terrorism-related charges”.
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Wallace served as the UK’s defence minister from 2019 – before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 – until August 2023.…
