Kyiv banned men of fighting age from leaving.

More than 6.6 million refugees have been recorded across Europe, most in neighbouring countries, which opened their arms. CARRYING A STRANGER'S CHILDRENĪs Russia pounded Ukrainian cities, millions took flight in what the United Nations said was the fastest-growing refugee crisis in generations. He has been beamed into the streets of Prague, the Grammy awards and the Glastonbury music festival, where he told cheering fans to 'prove that freedom always wins'. Congress and the Berlin Wall to the Bundestag. Since then, he has used video links to invoke Martin Luther King to the U.S. Zelenskiy went on to rally his country in nightly addresses, his combat fatigues, sparse stubble and casual but firm speaking style becoming symbols of Ukraine's resistance.

Behind him was a landmark building in central Kyiv. 'Good morning Ukrainians,' the former sitcom actor said, with the hint of a smile, in a mobile phone selfie video taken in the early light of the war's third morning. As Russian bombs fell on Kyiv and its residents huddled in metro stations for shelter or crammed train stations to flee, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made clear he would go nowhere.

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