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Actor Sean Penn has told fans that he 'walked miles' to the Polish border after being caught up in the Ukraine invasion.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefUkrainian filmmakers have mobilized quickly in their campaign to document Russia’s invasion of their country. While some are filming, others have taken up support roles to provide essential resources.Festival organizer and producer Darya Bassel, whose recent film “A House Made of Splinters” won a directing award at Sundance in January, is among those who have set up a structure to provide logistical support.Three days after evacuating from Ukrainian capital Kyiv with her family, Bassel has settled in an apartment in the Western town of Chernivtsi and has opened an office channeling means and materials to others.

Manchester City footballer Oleksandr Zinchenko embraced with Everton player Vitaliy Mykolenko as their teams went head to head in a Premier League match on Saturday 26 February after their homeland of Ukraine was invaded by Russia. Oleksandr, 25, who is now reportedly on £20,00 a week at Manchester City, lives in the affluent village of Hale Barns near Altrincham in Greater Manchester, with his TV presenter and journalist wife Vlada Shcheglova along with their six month old daughter.

Further doubt has been cast on Scotland 's play-off with Ukraine, as players could be called up to fight in the escalating response to Russia's invasion.

Ukraine conflict.The Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer took to Instagram today to show the current situation in Obolon, where he grew up.The clip, filmed from an apartment block, showed a street in the Obolon district in Kyiv with blasts heard in the background.It also shows what appears to be a military vehicle stopping at a car park.In view of his 114,000 followers, Nikita captioned the footage: “This is happening in Kiev, in Obolon - were I grew up. (sic)“My grandma, is right there, couples of minutes away.”He continued: “Later in this video you can see a tank going over a civilian car with innocent people in it.”Nikita also shared a picture of Ukraine’s flag yesterday as the conflict began to escalate.He captioned the image: “Heartbreaking.”The TV star was inundated with messages of support from fans, who sent their “prayers” to him and his Ukrainian relatives.Nicola_jjones commented: “I’m so so sorry Nikita.“Prayers for you, your family, loved ones and the people of Ukraine - we stand with Ukraine!”Rock_godess_rules added: “Heartbreaking to hear of this news.“Sending much love to you and your family.“I hope your family are safe at this time.

Vladimir Putin's war has not only caused the deaths of innocent people but there are also some arguing that he is threatening the very existence of Ukrainian culture.People have been reminded that the pronunciation and spelling of Ukraine's capital of Kyiv remains important in the weeks and months ahead.After a barbaric invasion in which hundreds of Ukrainians have been killed and hospitals and kindergartens bombed under the orders of Putin, now labelled a tyrant by Western leaders, the future of the country is very much up in the air. Battles between Ukrainian armed forces, who have been forced to conscript men between the ages of 18 and 60, and Russia have been seen all over the country and there is no clear outcome of the fighting so far.

“My parents fled this country for this exact reason,” Valentin “Val” Chmerkovskiy posted to Instagram on Thursday (Feb. 24). The Ukrainian-American dancer shared a video from The New York Times that showed citizens fleeing the city of Kyiv as Russian troops invaded the country. Val, 35, said that his parents left Ukraine “not because it wasn’t good to them, but because their kids would see war eventually. It’s a cruel irony that 28 years later, my brother [Maksim “Maks” Chmerkovskiy] is in a bombshelter (sic) in [Kyiv].”

K.J. Yossman Ukrainian director Stanislav Kapralov (“Let It Snow”) was in the middle of pre-production for a new film — a Hollywood project with U.S. actors and a U.S.

Chernobyl nuclear power plant have seen a rapid increase since Russian forces dramatically moved in last night.Observers noticed an "anomalous" jump in recorded radiation a the site in the Kiev region of Ukraine in the hours after Vladimir Putin's forces occupied the area late on Thursday evening.A data chart from a radiation tracking site, published by independent news website Nexta on Twitter, showed a huge spike in the nSv count.Nexta tweeted alongside the graph: "Anomalous jumps in radiation levels recorded in the #Kiyv region near Chernobyl."It comes after reports earlier in the evening that a violent attack may have destroyed a nuclear waste storage facility at the location, according to an advisory to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry.Fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces in the area in the north of the country could have led to the damage, according to NBC News.However, these reports are yet to be independently verified.NBC's Richard Engel tweeted this afternoon: "Advisor to Ukrainian interior ministry says Russian forces entered Chernobyl and that fighting there destroyed a nuclear waste storage facility."Workers at the site were also reportedly taken hostage as Russian tanks rolled in.A 1,000 square-mile exclusion zone was set up around Chernobyl in 1986 after the worst nuclear disaster in human history.Around 49,000 people were evacuated from the area, primarily from the neighbouring town of Pripyat.

Rachel Maddow will return from her hiatus on Thursday evening to cover the breaking news out of Ukraine.

Ukrainian-born Dancing With the Stars proMaksim Chmerkovskiy is fearing for his life and the lives of his friends in Kiev following a Russian invasion into the country over night.The 42-year-old dancer shared tearful videos to Instagram from the capital city following the attack, telling fans he was seeking refuge in 'a bomb shelter' and wanted 'to go back home'.On Thursday, Russian forces fired on the city of nearly 3 million residents with around two dozen attack helicopters, four of which are thought to have been shot down. 'S**t's going down':Ukrainian-born Dancing With the Stars pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy is fearing for his life and the lives of his friends in Kiev following a Russian invasion into the country over night Filming from a balcony near the heart of Kyiv, Maks told his followers that 'everybody was hoping that the finality of this situation would be averted, that there wasn't going to be these kind of aggressive measures.'As he shot the selfie style video, military sirens could be heard drawing nearer.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCNN has switched into full-battle mode to cover the fast-moving implications of the fighting in Ukraine, the first large-scale invasive war in Europe in more than 70 years.After months of preparation, the invasion by Russian forces began before dawn, following a TV address from Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow. It was followed just minutes later by explosions in several towns across Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv (aka Kiev).The WarnerMedia-owned CNN had similarly readied its own troops at points inside Ukraine and across the border in Russia, from where the invading forces sprang.“We’ve had a ‘dynamic live experience,’ what we would previously have called a live blog, operating for a few days already, and will of course keep up the digital news operations.

READ: Strictly's Craig Revel Horwood talks Oti Mabuse exit: 'It's brilliant news'One of those affected was Strictly Come Dancing star Nikita Kuzmin, who hails from the European nation. The star took to his social media channels to share an image of the country's flag, and he simply wrote: "Heartbreaking." On his Instagram Stories, the professional dancer also shared a map showing all the locations of airstrikes in Ukraine.WATCH: Nikita Kuzmin returns to Strictly Tour - and is met with great responseHis post was immediately met with support from both his fans and his co-stars, with Neil Jones writing: "Such a sad day.

comes under attack in a "full-scale" invasion.Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his military into the wider part of Ukraine overnight – despite weeks of denials that he would do so – with his forces entering the country from Russia, Belarus and Crimea, part of Ukraine already seized by Russia.Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says Russia has launched a "full-scale" attack with troops crossing the border on several fronts.The tank footage, which is said to have been filmed at Senkivka, was shown on CNN and then went viral on Twitter.Senkivka is at the border where Ukraine, Belarus and Russia meet, and is a long way from the regions of Ukraine that Putin originally said he was helping to defend.It also highlights the involvement of Belarus – one of Putin’s few allies in the region – in Putin’s operations.The world has been on tenterhooks for the past few weeks with Western intelligence warning that an invasion by Putin was imminent. Russia had publicly scoffed at that claim, but this morning’s actions appear to have vindicated those warnings.Earlier this week Putin invaded the Ukrainian regions of Donbask and Luhansk, claiming the separatist regions had asked for help, but the latest developments signify an all-out invasion of Ukraine.One of the responses on Twitter to the video of tanks at Senkivka says: “That’s nowhere near Donbas and Luhansk.

tensions in Eastern Europe.The Russian President made a televised speech at just before 3am UK time on Thursday morning where he said that Ukraine was to be "demilitarised and de-nazified" as a result of the action, and accused Western powers of "crossing a red line".Moments later footage on social media emerged from the Ukranian port city of Mariupol, located 30 miles from the border with Russia, appearing to show plumes of smoke rising in the aftermath of explosions.Explosions were also reported in Odesa and the capital city of Kiev after the conclusion of Putin's speech, which came at the same as world powers pleaded with Putin to "give peace a chance" at an emergency UN Security Council meetingVladimir Putin's military have ventured beyond the pro-Russian separatist regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, defying western powers and putting Europe on a bloody warpath.Just before 11pm UK time yesterday, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Putin declined an invitation to last minute talks, adding that an offensive against Ukraine had been approved. Zelenskyy also revealed that some 200,000 Russian troops were gathered on the border at that time.

Russian soldiers have been 'bombarding' Ukrainian ladies with flirty messages as they begin to surround the nation's borders.Women living in Kharkiv, the nation's second largest city, have reported a deluge of messages from Russian admirers on Tinder after forces began to be stationed 40 miles north of them.It comes as Vladimir Putin has reportedly amassed 200,000 troops on the country's eastern border — and could even send troops in as early as Thursday morning.Dasha Synelnikova, 33, says she was flooded with messages from blokes named Andrei, Alexander, Gregory and Michail when she set her location to Kharkiv.The video producer from the capital Kiev told The Sun on Tuesday night: “I actually live in Kyiv but changed my location settings to Kharkiv after a friend told me there were Russian troops all over Tinder.“And I couldn’t believe my eyes when they popped up trying to look tough and cool.

Champions League debut on Wednesday night sums up how his dream has come true.The 18-year-old midfielder was named in the starting line-up for Liverpool round of 16 first leg away to Italian champions Inter Milan at the San Siro.In the process, Elliott became the youngest player in the club's history to start a match in either the Champions League or European Cup, beating the previous record held by Trent Alexander-Arnold.A throwback picture of the teenager from almost four years ago also shows how he is living the dream.Elliott and his dad Scott were pictured together along with friends at the 2018 Champions League final in Kiev, with Elliott even sporting a Liverpool shirt.He was only 15 at the time and still in Fulham's academy, but has made no secret of his boyhood support for Liverpool since joining the club in 2019.Liverpool went on to lose the 2018 final 3-1 to Real Madrid, before beating Tottenham Hotspur a year later to claim their sixth European title.The dynamic midfielder is currently enjoying a breakthrough season at Anfield, despite having his campaign disrupted by a fractured ankle.Can Liverpool win the Champions League this season? Let us know in the comments section below.He recently returned from the injury against Cardiff City in the FA Cup fourth round, grabbing his first Liverpool goal off the bench, in front of his emotional dad.Elliott also starred on loan in the Championship with Blackburn Rovers last season and former Liverpool hero Michael Owen is full of praise for the teenager.Speaking ahead of Wednesday's match, Owen said: "It’s brilliant, considering what he’s gone through as well."He came into the side, made a huge first impression and then the real cruel fortune in terms of getting a huge

Foals have shared the video for their latest single ‘2am’, which opens with frontman Yannis Philippakis out drinking before he’s then dragged into wild – and elaborately choreographed – hedonism.The clip was directed by Tanu Muiño, best known for her work on pop megahits like Lil Nas X‘s ‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name)’ and Cardi B‘s ‘Up‘. It was filmed in Muiño’s home city of Kiev, and features an entirely Ukrainian crew.“We love Tanu’s work.

Wladimir Klitschko is no stranger to conflict, but may find himself involved in one rather different to what he has been used to in the past. Instead of coming up against other boxers inside a ring, he might find himself fighting Russian soldiers if Vladimir Putin gives the order to invade Ukraine.

Bodo/Glimt boss Kjetil Knutsen admits he hasn’t a clue how his new-look side will look when they come up against Celtic, Michael Gannon reports from Spain.