Mr Wallace has served as defence secretary under three prime ministers and has played a high-profile role in the UK's response to the Ukraine war. On Twitter on Saturday evening, writing in Ukrainian, Mr Wallace said his comments had been "somewhat misrepresented", and he was making the point that in some parliaments there "is not such strong support as in Great Britain". "Before entering politics as a member of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, Mr Wallace served in the Army as an Officer in the Scots Guards