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Sir Michael Palin, a travel writer and presenter who has a special place in his heart for the besieged country, has urged people to donate to Mail Force, which has so far raised £11million.

Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai accused the Kremlin of systematically attacking electricity plants and water pumps to punish the local population, pictured hungry in Sievierodonetsk.

Already some 100,000 boxes have been dispatched, each containing food for one adult for a week, paid for jointly by the Mail Force charity and the Ukrainian embassy in London.

The Halo Trust is preparing to launch a huge operation to find and clear landmines and unexploded bombs in the towns and villages surrounding the capital, Kyiv.

Katarina Tymashov, 34, said her sister-in-law Elena Hrybanov felt beyond scared after the Home Office took more than a month to approve her visa.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: In the dark nightmare of warfare, munitions are not the only weapons. To terrorise populations (and in flagrant breach of all conventions) rogue armies rape and murder civilians.

Narelle Guthrie, 35, from Wiltshire travelled to the Polish-Ukraine border using her savings to matchmake Ukrainian refugees with British families willing to home them.

More than 2,400 cardboard boxes crammed with food - partly funded with the help of Mail Force - are offering a lifeline to those fleeing Vladimir Putins forces. The food is now on a train to Ukraine.

Alexey Kravtsov, 38, along with his wife Katrin, 37 and son Maxim, 6, are just one of many families in the Black Sea city of Mykolaiv fleeing their homes after renewed Russian shelling last week

Missiles have rained down on the city of Sievierodonetsk for days, destroying all food depots, markets and shops as the Kremlin aims to capture the entire region.