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Richard Hewison said the slow pace of processing is in sharp contrast to the 72 requests for golden visas for wealthy Russians that were approved last year.

Across the country, thousands of people are thought to have been killed, both civilians and soldiers, in nearly two weeks of fighting.

Some charities have even given up, saying "it doesn’t make sense to spend so much time and money dealing with the bureaucracy."

He said the "Brexit-era thinking about immigration and humanitarian rights is hopelessly out of date."

Researchers cautioned that even this projection may be overly optimistic.

It comes as the US secretary of state Antony Blinken reinforced the message Moscow’s campaign was faltering and said Ukraine “can absolutely win against Russia".

Meanwhile, Poland has received an extraordinary number of Ukrainian refugees: over one million, prompting The Spectator to call it a “humanitarian superpower”.

"Utterly heartbreaking", tweeted Gary Lineker after watching the incredibly moving clip.

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