MP Adam Holloway has travelled to Ukraine, and says its people are determined to fight the Russian invasion.

Speaking to GB News yesterday, the Gravesham MP said he had travelled to a town 80 miles inside the Ukranian border, passing thousands of cars queuing to escape the country, before witnessing preparations for war.

"I woke up right on the Ukranian border in south east Poland and I went to McDonald's," said Mr Holloway, a former soldier who has also worked as a TV reporter. "The McDonald's near the border was packed with women and children and a few elderly people.

"We then went up the road a couple of miles and I crossed over into Ukraine and then really quite extraordinary scenes of thousands of women and children queuing at the border – men separated, foreign men separated, some of them have been living in these corralled areas in the border posts for four days and nights in the cold."

After driving east into Ukraine from the border, he described seeing "the mother of all traffic jams", adding: "It went on for about 20 miles – I mean thousands and thousands and thousands of cars."

He then described scenes in the city, where he had seen volunteers in a children's nursery packing up donated medical supplies into medical kits for soldiers, before heading to look at a military conscription site.

Mr Holloway, who is also a member of the Home Affairs Committee, added: "We went round the corner and there was a place where people volunteer to sign up for the military, and we ran into Ukraine's top concert pianist Igor Grubin. It was fascinating talking to him, because so many people are volunteering for the military that they're only taking people with actual military experience – there just aren't enough guns.

"I've only been on the ground for just over 12 hours but it seems to me that these people here are absolutely determined to fight. If you look at the moral component of warfare, and as you know I used to be a soldier, that is the decisive thing. We can't know what's going to happen over the next few days and months but one thing I can absolutely tell you is that these people here – certainly where I am right now and I think right across Ukraine – it does feel to me as if they're going to fight."

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Elsewhere Boris Johnson has arrived in Poland to discuss the crisis with his counterpart and he's urging a united western front against the Russian president.