Volodymyr Zelensky appears at Glastonbury by video link - Daily Mail

'The pandemic has put on hold the lives of millions of people around the world,' he said.

Zelensky has made a series of appearances around the world via video-link from Ukraine, including an address to the UK parliament, European Parliament and US Congress.

His speech comes on the same day a Ukrainian official announced that the country's forces will retreat from Severodonetsk in the face of a brutal Russian offensive.  

Ukrainian servicemen moving to a position in the city of Severodonetsk under heavy bombardment by Russian forces

Governor of Lugansk Sergiy Gaiday said that Ukrainian forces around Severodonetsk have been given the order to retreat as remaining in positions that have been relentlessly shelled 'doesn't make sense'

Ukrainian troop ride a tank on a road of the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on June 21, 2022, as Ukraine says Russian shelling has caused 'catastrophic destruction' in the eastern industrial city of Lysychansk, which lies just across a river from Severodonetsk where Russian and Ukrainian troops have been locked in battle for weeks

But Sergiy Gaiday - governor of Lugansk, which includes the city - said the Ukrainian military would have to retreat

Capturing Severodonetsk and its twin city of Lysychansk would give the Russians control of Lugansk, and allow them to push further into the wider Donbas

Gaiday said the Russians were now advancing on Lysychansk, which has been facing increasingly heavy Russian bombardment

AFP journalists driving out of the city Thursday twice had to jump out of cars and lie on the ground as Russian forces shelled its main supply road