An Irishman who was living in Kyiv has crossed the border from Ukraine to Poland with his wife and family.
Brendan Murphy, from Omeath in Co Louth, travelled with his wife Marina, her 18-year-old daughter and three-year-old granddaughter and his mother-in-law.
Mr Murphy spoke to RTÉ Correspondent Paul Cunningham in Hrebenne, Poland, who asked him about his journey.
Yeah, so coming up to here [the border] - your block post and security - when we were arriving it was empty. But the system coming through they are checking and checking and checking and, documents, documents, documents - we don't have them.
Because where I was living, is in the heart of where they're attacking and some pretty horrific scenes. So, I wasn't going to go for my passport and documents there, so it's been a problem.
What is it like actually having your feet now on Polish soil in a safe country?
Divided emotions, I think. One of them means I want to go back because what's happening is appalling and the other is I want to be home.
Tell me about what you did during your time in Ukraine.
Well, my job was to stay away from everything, but obviously I've got photographs from where we were staying. So people we know, friends, the park and the houses that we knew well, they're destroyed now.
A baby was killed this morning. There are tanks shooting into the private housing and there's one road that's just piled high with destroyed Russian tanks and trucks.
How do you process something like that?
I don't think you should. Don't try because you have to live with yourself. And my job was to stay as far away from that as possible without putting too much stress on a 90-year-old and a three-year-old.
How are they doing?
I mean they're okay. But my mother-in-law is here, and she wants to get out. I think she wants to walk to Ireland now because she's sick of the car.
And it's now about half five local time, dusk is falling, where are you going to go?
I think I'll go to Warsaw now and stop and then regroup and then move on maybe tomorrow, you know, by land.
But I don't know to be honest, because my whole focus was to get to there [the border] and now I have this completely different mental mindset which is saying 'Well, how am I going to get home? I have a car with people. What's the best way to do that?'
I'm not going to delay you any longer. Thanks so much for talking to us.
I appreciate that and thanks everybody at home. It's been fantastic.
It's been very warm and encouraging from across the world and in as much as it's truly awful, you know the humanity and the warmth of people have been incredible and I really, really appreciate everybody at home very strongly.
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