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Mikey Smith

No10 slaps down Tory MP Adam Holloway for travelling to Ukraine to see the war

Number 10 has slapped down a Tory MP for travelling to Ukraine to see the war.

Gravesham MP Adam Holloway - a former soldier and TV presenter - revealed last night he had crossed the Ukraine border from Poland.

Speaking to GB News, he revealed he had started the day with a McDonalds on the Polish border, and later bumped into Ukraine's top concert pianist.

And he said the people of Ukraine are "determined to fight."

Boris Johnson's official spokesman said: “I am not aware of that specific MP but our travel advice to everyone is against travel to Ukraine.”

Asked if he should come home, the he added: “You should certainly not travel to Ukraine.”

"I woke up right on the Ukranian border in south east Poland and I went to McDonald's," Mr Holloway told GB News last night.

"The McDonald's near the border was packed with women and children and a few elderly people."

Mr Holloway said the queue out of Ukraine was "the mother of all traffic jams" (AFP via Getty Images)

He went on: "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."

Mr Holloway described the scene east of the Ukraine border as "the mother of all traffic jams", adding: "It went on for about 20 miles - I mean thousands and thousands and thousands of cars."

He went on: "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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