The UK, on the other hand, has only managed to process 300 visas, with hundreds of families still stranded in Calais and elsewhere.

It comes as Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said western countries are involved in 'economic banditry' against Russia and that Moscow would respond.

The Brexit Opportunities minister’s post comes just as the US has labelled the EU’s response to the invasion of Ukraine as “historic”, saying the relationship with the bloc is “vital” – but not mentioning a word about Brexit Britain.

“What the European Union has done over the space of a couple of weeks is quite simply remarkable," Antony Blinken said, making no mention of the UK.

Even Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban has spoken in favour of Ukrainian refugees, saying this week that his country can “tell the difference between who is a migrant and who is a refugee.”

"Right now, at this moment in time, the Kremlin is so angry, so bitter and deluded, that it actually wants a war with NATO," UK historian Dr Peter Caddick-Adams said.

“We disarmed these SUVs because they are a growing and needless part of the system that is killing us. Nobody needs a planet-wrecking SUV," a spokesperson said.

The Ukraine crisis shows how important it is to learn the lessons of the Kindertransport, which saved thousands of Jewish children from the Holocaust.

“It is the moment our country has irreversibly anchored itself in the European space,” foreign minister Nicu Popescu said.