Quoting Churchill, he said: "We will not give up, and we will not lose, we will fight until the end, in the sea and in the air, we will continue fighting for our land whatever the cost."
It comes as the US secretary of state Antony Blinken reinforced the message Moscow’s campaign was faltering and said Ukraine “can absolutely win against Russia".
Meanwhile, Poland has received an extraordinary number of Ukrainian refugees: over one million, prompting The Spectator to call it a “humanitarian superpower”.
An 84-year-old woman was among those locked outside of the processing centre. "The UK has quite literally left them out in the cold."
Last week Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov likened the Americans to Hitler and Napoleon.
“We’ve been very clear that it’s unlawful as well as unhelpful for UK military and for the UK population to start going towards Ukraine in that sense," the army boss said.
Once again, our global standing has been shattered by our little Englander mentality. Or am I just being woke?
The UK, on the other hand, has only managed to process 300 visas, with hundreds of families still stranded in Calais and elsewhere.
The isolated incidents appear to conflict with the overwhelming outpouring of support from Polish people elsewhere.