Sir Rod Stewart has used his “power” as a knight to help other, after renting a Bracknell home for a family of Ukrainian refugees.

Support has been provided to Ukrainian couple Rostylsav and Olena and their five children, paying rent and bills for the Berkshire four bed-room property for at least a year.

The family, who arrived in the UK without speaking any English, are “lovely… so polite” and “all very grateful”, Sir Rod said.

“It just makes me want to do more. I am thinking of getting another house now and getting a lot more people over,” he told The Mirror.

“I usually keep all my charitable efforts nice and quiet and just do it. But I thought, ‘I am a knight, I have been given this knighthood because of the things I’ve achieved in my life and the charity work I’ve done over the years.’

“But that was the past; I want to be seen to be doing something now. I am a knight, I should be using my power to do something for people.

“I am sure that if there are people out there who see what I am doing, they will pick up some slack too.”

Grateful dad Rostyslav Kurtiak, 49, told MailOnline ‘how his family owed their lives to the rocker after he found a home for them in a leafy Berkshire town’.

In an interview with the MailOnline, the Ukrainian father said: 'Sir Rod is a very great man. He saved my family from danger.

'Now my children are safe and are learning in school like normal children.'

According to The Mirror, Sir Rod and his wife Penny Lancaster were inspired to act after witnessing the unfolding events of the ongoing war in Ukraine on the news.

The singer also hired three trucks filled with supplies for refugees and had them driven to Ukraine, before using the same vehicles to transport 16 people back to safety in Berlin.

He was later put in contact with Rostyslav and his family, as well as others who he has since given jobs to.

Next month will see Sir Rod kick off a string of UK arena dates, playing in Nottingham, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Belfast, London, Birmingham and Manchester.

He told The Mirror that he plans to address the conflict in Ukraine as part of the tour, dedicating shows to the country and its people.