MOSCOW, June 4. /TASS/. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has filed criminal charges against former British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, who served in the post from July 2019 to August 2023, over comments he made about bombing Crimea, the agency's press service reported.
"The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has approved the indictment in the criminal case against Ben Wallace, former Secretary of State for Defense of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland," the agency said.
"He is charged in absentia with committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code (public calls for terrorist activity made using information and telecommunications networks, including the Internet)," the office said. The criminal case has been referred to the Second Western District Military Court for consideration on merits.
According to the Prosecutor General's Office, investigators believe that at a public session of the Warsaw Security Forum 2025, held in Poland in September 2025, Wallace made statements that "contained calls for terrorist activities, including by providing Ukraine with long-range missile weapons to enable strikes on the Crimean Bridge with the aim of creating conditions unfit for the civilian population to live in the territory of the Republic of Crimea."
