BBC BROADCASTER Clive Myrie, and his team, have left Kyiv as Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities intensify.

The 57-year-old has been reporting on the Russian invasion from the capital Kyiv, often alongside the corporation’s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet.

But on Sunday evening, Clive, who studied Law at the University of Sussex, left the capital after taking shelter from missile fire underground.

Writing on Twitter, he said: “It was a long, day of driving and queuing to get out of Kyiv.

“It’s freezing cold, and you pray those in neighbouring countries will welcome you, not despise you”.

The UN has reported that more than one million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began.

In a heartfelt message on social media, Clive expressed sympathy with families trying to leave the country.

He said: “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”.

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Clive had been commended by the Culture Secretary Nadine Dorris, along with other reporters, for “risking their lives to bring us unbiased and accurate news from a live warzone”.

Speaking in the Commons, she said: “At this point I’d just like to offer my heartfelt thanks and admiration to all of those journalists working for the BBC, the ITV and other news outlets who are risking their lives to bring us unbiased and accurate news from a live warzone.”

Clive also attracted praise from fellow journalists, including former BBC and GB News newsreader Simon McCoy, who said: “You are doing an amazing job. Look after yourselves.”

World At One presenter Sarah Montague said: “Watching @CliveMyrieBBC makes me feel very proud that I work at the BBC. He is a class act.”

During the first week of the conflict, Myrie and his colleague Douce, swiftly put on flak jackets after they were interrupted by an air raid siren during a live broadcast from a rooftop opposite St Michael’s Cathedral.