"For many years, Eccho Rights has enjoyed wonderful and fruitful relationships with partners in Ukraine and we are devastated by what has unfolded over the past week, with our thoughts going out to our close friends in Kyiv who find themselves under vicious attack.

As international distributors of Servant of the People, the series created by and starring President Zelensky, it is Eccho Rights' position that the best support the global television industry can offer to Ukraine today is to share this story.

The series is a comedy but also an important document of where Zelensky comes from. His fictional president is a normal man, who grows into his role as a heroic and adored leader. While the real world scenario facing Zelensky and the Ukrainian people is far more grim and appalling than the comedy of the series, there are obvious parallels with the real world situation, and Servant of the People is a fascinating, important and historic piece of television. A number of major broadcasters have already agreed licenses for the series in the past week, including Channel 4 in the UK, MBC in the Middle East, ANT1 in Greece and PRO TV in Romania.

Three seasons of the series, as well as a feature film are all available to license from Eccho Rights. For more information on the series, please see the links below.

To support our friends, colleagues and their compatriots in Ukraine, Eccho Rights is pledging a donation of €50 000 to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society, who are in desperate need of help to assist victims of the war. For more information and to make your own contributions go to https://redcross.org.ua/en/

Finally, Eccho Rights has removed all Russian-owned and produced series from our catalogue with immediate effect. In solidarity with Ukraine, we must take every punitive measure available to us in the fight against Russia.