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DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Russian invaders have pushed Ukraine to the verge of famine, shelling farms food warehouses, grain silos, shopping centres and supermarkets, and even stealing tractors.

Staring into smartphones, but with nothing to eat, desperately hungry Ukrainian children cower in a bomb shelter waiting for food from Mail Force food parcels to arrive.

The Mail Force appeal has now funded over 500,000 food parcels which are starting to make their way from Leicester to Luhansk with 12,000 calories in each parcel.

Looming over potato fields, the hulking outline of the Polish warehouse comes into view. It is just after dawn, and 63 hours since Mail Forces mission set off carrying humanitarian cargo.

VADYM PRYSTAIKO: The 500,000 food boxes you have supplied will go to people most in need in the midst of the greatest European catastrophe in our living memory.

Heavily pregnant Anastasia Dulkai, 32, is one of thousands of stranded Ukrainians left in the lurch by delays to the UKs refugee visa scheme.

Luba arrived in Poland after a gruelling 500-mile journey on a minibus hobbling in pain, hungry and nearly penniless. But she has now been given money to buy food, medicine and crutches.

A hero Ukrainian soldier proposed to his girlfriend on the streets of war-torn Odesa - and she said yes. The brave fighter got down on one knee in front of the stunned young woman, whose shock turns to joy.

Red Cross medics in Poland arranged for emergency vials of insulin to be delivered to Weronica, who was 170 miles away in the town of Dubno.

Generous donations to help evacuees are still rolling in, as the Mail Force Ukraine Appeal reached a landmark £10.4million, including more than £9million from readers.