An elderly man looks out of a bus window and smiles as he flees to safety from war.

People squeeze onto evacuation transport to leave the city using a minibus organised by volunteers from SOS Vostok. The evacuees have been hiding in basements for at least two or three weeks, enduring...

People squeeze onto evacuation transport to leave the city using a minibus organised by volunteers from SOS Vostok. The evacuees have been hiding in basements for at least two or three weeks, enduring...

The Revenok family and their friends who all escaped Chernihiv together now wait to depart by train from Kyiv for Lviv, from where they plan to travel on into Europe. They managed to escape the besieg...

Lesia Revenok (41) and her two teenage children arrive at Kyiv train station. They managed to escape the besieged city of Chernihiv earlier that morning, a now dangerous journey that involves crossing...

A group of people arrive in Kyiv having managed to escape the besieged city of Chernihiv. Some had only left the city that morning, a now dangerous journey that involves crossing the Desna river by bo...

A young woman makes a call on a mobile phone as she arrives in the relative safety of Kyiv, having managed to escape the besieged city of Chernihiv.

A woman cries as she reaches the relative safety of Kyiv city, having managed to escape the besieged city of Chernihiv.

A group of people arrive in Kyiv having managed to escape the besieged city of Chernihiv. Some had only left the city that morning, a now dangerous journey that involves crossing the Desna river by bo...

People who have fled their homes in various parts of Ukraine wait in a reception area at Kyiv central station before travelling onward.

Sasha Myhova, Stas Burykov and their dog Eva wait at an aid station, having just been evacuated from the besieged town of Irpin.

People who have fled their homes in various parts of Ukraine charging their mobile phones while they wait in a reception area at Kyiv central station before travelling onward.

Sasha Myhova holds a piece of shrapnel from a Russian shell that she said had landed in the yard of their home in Irpin.

Sasha Myhova, Stas Burykov and their dog Eva wait at an aid station, having just been evacuated from the besieged town of Irpin.

Svetlana (right) and her son Dyma arrive at Kyiv train station, having escaped Chernihiv. "We were a group of seven with one child and a grandmother who is disabled", said Svetlana (40). "We had to ma...