Strictly Come Dancing's Pasha says Russians 'can't make sense' of Ukrainian invasion

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Strictly Come Dancing professional Pasha Kovalev has said his friends are struggling to understand why Russia decided to invade Ukraine.

The dancer, 42, was born in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in Russian Far East but also has family ties with Ukraine, a neighbouring country that Vladimir Putin invaded.Putin, 69, instructed his armed forces to invade the country on February 24, 2022, following rising tensions over whether Ukraine would join NATO.Tensions had been brewing between the countries since 2014 when Putin invaded Crimea in the south of Ukraine but he recently admitted that the country is "historically part of Russia" and a "special military operation" would begin, causing a war.Pasha said: "My family on my mum's side goes back to Ukraine and I still have relatives there as well so this whole situation of Russia against Ukraine seems like nonsense to me, and all of the people I know back in Russia cannot make sense of it either."I think it just shouldn’t be happening."It is depressing and the hardest thing for me to try to keep my mum cheered up a little bit because since it started happening she kinda went inwards and closed up a little bit, she's here with me in London."We're talking a lot, but those things cannot be fixed in one conversation."It's recently been reported that Ukrainian refugees attempting to flee the war-torn country have faced difficulties when attempting to come to the UK.One child aged four was denied entry to Britain after discovering his passport had expired, this comes after the Home Office said children did not need passports to apply for entry.MP Kit Malthouse said: "We've recognised that people fleeing a war zone may not have all their documentation and we're trying to take a compassionate and.