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Mark Lewis and his Ukrainian-born wife Irina spent nearly eight hours filling in forms for the women to come to Britain under the Homes for Ukraine scheme.

Mykolaivs regional governor said he missed the artillery strike on his office because he overslept. Three were killed and 22 more were wounded in the southern port town blast.

Ukrainian wheelchair-user Vitaly, his fiancee Valentyna her mother Svitlana and cat Timosha found refuge in Italy with the help of the Mail Force Ukraine Appeal which has raised £9.1million.

Kyivs ministry of defence said Russia has been forced to withdraw some units surrounding the capital after suffering major losses with the Kremlin still yet to seize any major city.

Dame Emma is a patron of the Refugee Council, which has received £500,000 from Mail Force to help the thousands of Ukrainians expected to arrive in Britain after fleeing Putins war.

Svetlana Tsymbal, her daughter Alona and granddaughter Sofia reached the Polish capital after attacks on their hometown of Zaporizhzhia forced them to flee earlier this month.

There are fears that the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv (pictured), which has been holding out against Russian forces since the early days of the invasion, could become the next Mariupol.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia has been beaten back by the powerful blows of Ukrainian forces, with 16,000 troops killed, as Putins invasion entered its fifth week.

Britains small business owners are boosting the fund through their own donations - with the scheme given the tag small business, big difference.

Orlando Bloom, Unicefs goodwill ambassador visited Ukrainian refugees at a centre in Moldova. More than 1.8 million children have been forced to flee the war zone.