Russia Puts British Ex-Defense Minister on Wanted List

In September 2025, Ben Wallace recommended helping Kyiv carry out military strikes on the bridge linking southern Russia to Ukraine.

British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace leaves Millbank Studios in London on Feb. 28, 2022. Leon Neal/Getty Images

Moscow has put a former top member of the British government, who is critical of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on a wanted list, according to Russian state media.

State-run news agency TASS reported on May 13 that former British Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace had been placed on the Russian Interior Ministry’s database of wanted persons, being “wanted on a criminal charge.”