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Oleg Zagorodnii is sitting in the cafe he owns in Kyiv, beneath a brightly coloured painting of Aladdin smiling down from the wall behind. “It is just me now, no baristas,” says the Ukrainian actor via video call. “People come. I build them coffee, provide them dessert. They are happy to feel some courteous of normal being. They sit in the cafe, we play music, we speak. Of course, all we speak about is war.”

Zagorodnii has twice attempted to enlist in the army, only to be told that there are currently more volunteers than equipment. The best he can do is produce appeals on social media for bulletproof vests, and operate the cafe as a place to pass on sustenance, supplies and military uniforms. “I experiment to do what I can in this terrible time,” he says.

It was only a year ago that the 34-year-old rented a small cinema in the city to screen the frigid war love story Firebird for his family and friends. In this stirring British-Estonian production, Zagorodnii, who has the looks of a 1940s matinee idol, stars as Roman, a soon-to-be-married fighter pilot who falls for a adolescent conscript, Sergey, played by Britain’s To

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