Robert Rinder warns history is ‘repeating itself’ as refugees flee Ukraine

Robert Rinder in Poland Pictures @robbierinder Main image: Ania. Fleeing with her 8 year old son from ‘the horror of Kyiv’ to France. This is what happened when she heard for the first time that 50 thousand British people were offering their homes. And bottom right image: One mum told me that when the sirens sounded in Kyiv she ‘pretended to her son that it was a game of hide and seek’.

Robert Rinder warned that history is “repeating itself” as he reported from Poland’s border with Ukraine.

The barrister and TV judge has travelled to eastern Europe in a bid to help the grandparents of Oksana Platero, his former professional partner on Strictly Come Dancing, safely cross the border.