Thousands massed at Lviv's main train station

Thousands of people massed at Lviv's main train station, hoping to board trains that would take them out of the city and into the safety of Europe as the Russian invasion continued.

Samuel Owusu-Poku, who came from Ghana two years ago to study economics at Simon Kuznets University in Kharkiv said he'd decided to leave when he realised the shelters in the city were full, shortly after the explosions began last week.

Osuwu-Poky, student from Ghana said "I came back to my house, but on the Friday it got closer to my apartment and so we left everything there. My friends had a cat, they left everything, I left everything too. What is more important is my life," .

Many on the snow covered platform had been waiting hours for a train to Poland but it was unclear when or indeed if it would arrive, let alone depart on Sunday. Two trains that had departed from Poland on Saturday had not yet returned to Ukraine so all trains on that route were severely delayed.