Strictly Come Dancing professional Nikita Kuzmin has shared his 'heartbreak' at the horrific videos and pictures emerging from war torn Ukraine, where he grew up.
The dancer, 24, appeared on Lorraine Kelly's show via videolink on Thursday morning and explained to the host that he has seen tghe very streets he walked as a child being bombed by Russian forces.
Lorraine asked him: "To see your homeland being attacked so brutally. These are the tactics aren't they? They just… everything. It does look like scenes from World War II."
Nikita, doing his best to "hold it together", replied: "It's absolutely heartbreaking and to see the streets where I grew up where many of the Ukrainians grew up…."
He continued: "I recognise the streets and just now see them being bombed being run over by tanks fighting on the streets is absolutely heartbreaking and it's wrong on so many levels."
Lorraine then asked Nikita – who was paired with Tilly Ramsay for last year's Strictly – what people could do to help those suffering in Ukraine.
He explained: "First of all if you can donate to the National Bank of Ukraine who is helping directly the army and the aid which is necessary at the front.
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"Also as well to donate to the closest drop off points clothes, batteries, bower banks. Anything that's necessary, please Google it."
Nikita then opened up about an issue close to his heart: "As a diabetic myself. If you could donate to the diabetes community. If you have any spare parts, any insulin, any needles.
"Anything what's necessary please just Google it, search it up. You can help and we need help."
Nikita also revealed that he calls his grandma everyday and hears bombs in the background.
Nikita went on to appeal to the government to "help cover the sky."
He continued: "They are bombing everything right now including hospitals, maternity houses, schools and now also internet and TV stations. They're trying to disconnect us from our families. We need help."
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has stood firm in his resolve not to create a no fly zone over Ukraine.
At a press conference in Warsaw he explained: "The implication of that (no fly zone) is that the UK would be engaged in shooting down Russian planes, would be in direct combat with Russia. That's not something that we can do or that we've envisaged."
For more information about how you can help support the people of Ukraine through this crisis, click here.
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