Politics

"I am addressing you not as a president, I am addressing you as a citizen of Ukraine."

Meanwhile, in the UK, the Home Office has stopped accepting visa applications from Ukrainians stuck in the country, meaning there is no safe and legal route for them to seek asylum in Britain unless they have British relatives.

"Are you going to clap them too?", Mike Galsworthy asked.

"Labour will no longer tolerate the selfishness of those who aren’t focused on winning the next election.”

Now the Defence Secretary sends the same warning Foreign Secretary Liz Truss sent last week.

This is despite countries neighbouring Ukraine, which include some of the poorest states in Europe, preparing to receive up to five million refugees because of the conflict with Russia.

Maria Zakharova said ‘similar adjectives’ to those used about the Russian leader could be directed at Britain’s PM.

“We have to recognise that the old concepts of fighting big tank battles on European land mass are over and there are other better things we should be investing in," the prime minister said in November 2021, when there were warning signs about Russian troops at Ukraine's border.

"Why won't you give that £2 million back that Putin-linked people gave to your party?", the Labour MP asked.