RYAN Reynolds and Blake Lively have promised to donate up to $1m to Ukrainian refugees.

The Hollywood couple said they would match donations up to $1m or £745,850.

Ryan, who took over ownership of Wrexham AFC along with Rob McElhenney in February last year, is one of the world's biggest movie stars, headlining blockbusters like Deadpool and Free Guy.

Ryan and Blake married in 2012 and have three daughters.

At the weekend, they took to social media to urge fans to make donations to help Ukrainians displaced by the invasion by Russia.

Ryan, tweeted: “In 48 hours, countless Ukrainians were forced to flee their homes to neighbouring countries. They need protection."

It comes as the defence secretary warned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is set to become “more violent”.

Ben Wallace said that although the Ukrainians were putting up “a very strong fight” the reality was they were going up against “the overwhelming scale of the Russian Federation Army”.

Speaking to BBC Breakfast, he said of Russia: “They are behind schedule, they are taking significant casualties and they are feeling public rejection in parts of the Russian system itself; we’ve seen many protests.

“But the Russian handbook is to then get more violent and commit more forces because fundamentally in the Russian, sort of, doctrine the lives of their own soldiers matter much less than in other armed forces.

“So we have to brace ourselves for what may come next, which could be ruthless, indiscriminate bombing of cities and propelling forward of soldiers and high casualty levels, and that’s going to be horrific.”