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MOTSI Mabuse has revealed her husband’s parents are now living with them full time after managing to flee from Ukraine. The 40-year-old opened up about the terrifying situation, admitting “it breaks my heart”, but shared her joy in being able to keep her in-laws safe.

A third world war would be 'nuclear and destructive', a Russian minister has warned.

STRICTLY Come Dancing star Motsi Mabuse has revealed fears she'll never see her husband's Ukrainian hometown after it came under attack from Russian forces. The professional dancer, whose husband Evgenij Voznyuk is from Ukraine's second city Kharkiv, has been horrified by the devastation caused by the Russian invasion. Today she wrote on Twitter: "2020 we booked our flights to spend Easter in Kharkiv and return a day before my birthday, because of lockdown we cancelled the trip.

Susanna Reid could not withhold her emotion as she updated on the situation in Ukraine as Russia carry out further attacks in Kharkiv.

Ukraine’s equivalent of The Highways Agency is doing its bit for the resistance against Russia’s invasion by changing road signs so that Russian troops hoping for directions are told to “go f*** themselves” instead. Ukravtodor, the company in charge of building and maintaining roads in the besieged country, announced in a Facebook post over the weekend: "The enemy has poor communications, they cannot navigate the terrain – Let us help them get straight to hell." Motorway signs that might normally point the way to Kyiv or Ukraine ’s second city Kharkiv now carry directions such as "Go f*** yourself", "Go f*** yourself again" and "Go f*** yourself back in Russia”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly “raging” in his lair in the Urals, demanding to know why the invasion of Ukraine is taking so long. Russian troops are encountering fierce resistance as they lay siege to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, and are taking unexpectedly high casualties in the hand-to-hand fighting in Ukraine's second city Kharkiv.Riho Terras, Estonia’s former defence chief, tweeted: "Putin is furious, he thought that the whole war would be easy and everything would be done in one to four days.“The Russians are in shock of the fierce resistance they have encountered."He added that the Russian forces don’t appear to have a "tactical plan" to take Ukraine.Terras said Putin's invasion plan relied on “sowing panic among civilians and armed forces and forcing [Ukrainian President] Zelenskyy to flee".But in response to a US offer of a flight out of the besieged capital, Zelenskyy replied, “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.”Terras also shared an image of what he says is a Russian military intelligence report that he captioned: "Putin is raging.