‘Evil has been reborn’ seventy-seven years after the Nazis were defeated in Europe, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky declared today.

Today is VE Day, marking the surrender of German forces and end to World War Two in Europe.

But Mr Zelensky said today Europe is again seeing war, as evil has returned ‘in different uniform, under different slogans but for the same purpose’.

He spoke in front of a bombed residential block in Borodyanka, one of the Kyiv suburbs pummelled before Russian troops withdrew, wearing a t-shirt saying ‘I’m Ukrainian’ in a black and white video released today.

‘Every year on May 8, along with the entire civilised world, we honour those who defended the planet from Nazism in World War Two,’ he said.

‘But we have not made it even a century. Our “never again” lasted only 77 years. Evil has been reborn.’

He continued: ‘Decades after World War II, darkness returned to Ukraine. It became black and white again.

‘A bloody reconstruction of Nazism was organised in Ukraine.’

Putin’s forces have been rushing to seize the steel plant in Mariupol which is the last Ukrainian hold-out of the city.

However, the defenders were still holding out today.

Meanwhile, dozens of Ukrainians are feared dead after a Russian bomb hit a school sheltering about 90 people in its basement.

The governor of Luhansk province, part of the eastern industrial heartland known as the Donbas, said emergency crews had found two bodies and rescued 30 people at the school in the village of Bilohorivka after Saturday’s bombing.

‘Most likely, all 60 people who remain under the rubble are now dead,’ governor Serhiy Haidai wrote.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said that she consider this likely to be a ‘war crime’ today.

She tweeted: ‘Horrified by Russia’s latest attack on a school in Luhansk, resulting in the deaths of innocent people sheltering from Russian bombardment.’

She said the deliberate targeting of civilians and infrastructure ‘amounts to war crimes’ and ‘we will ensure Putin’s regime is held accountable’.

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