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Robert Dex

Why does the porcelain cockerel presented to Boris Johnson symbolise Ukrainian resistance?

PM Boris Johnson with a porcelain cockerel he was presented with in Kyiv

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Photographs of the Prime Minister and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky clutching ceramic jugs in the shape of a cockerel were shared around the world.

The two leaders were presented with them by a woman as they were escorted through the streets of Kyiv under armed guard prompting the Prime Minister to tell her: “I’m from London”, to which she replied: “I know, I’m from Kharkiv.”

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