BBC presenter Clive Myrie shared an emotional update as he left the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
Myrie has become a regular face of BBC reports from the front line over the last week, reporting with Kyiv as a backdrop amid the sounds of air rais sirens and shelling.
The journalist, 57, shared a picture of long traffic as he spent a day getting out of Kyiv, as well as his thoughts for others who are fleeing the country.
Clive wrote: "It was a long, day of driving and queuing to get out of Kyiv. Imagine having to leave all you know in a hurry because you’re being shelled!
"What do you pack? Do pets come too? It’s freezing cold and you pray those in neighbouring countries will welcome you, not despise you!
"My thoughts are with the 1million who’ve fled Ukraine because they might be killed. The millions who fled Syria and many other millions escaping repression, poverty, war. They all pray they’ll be welcomed in other countries as human beings. That’s all they ask."
It comes as the situation in the Ukraine continues to escalate after Putin's troops fired on two British journalists during an ambush on Friday.
Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent at Sky News, was hit by a bullet in the lower back as shooting rained down on a car carrying his crew towards Kyiv on Monday.
Camera operator Richie Mockler was hit with two rounds to his body armour before the team managed to escape and take cover. They were later rescued by Ukrainian police.
It is understood that the whole crew, including Sky News' Dominque van Heerden and Martin Vowles and local producer Andrii Lytvynenko, are now safe.
