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The bus station in Odesa is where families say farewell not knowing if or when they will see each other again.

There are a row of buses waiting to pick up people who are escaping the war.

One girl looks so distraught I wonder if she'll even get on the bus.

Another wipes the tears from her face before picking up her suitcase and climbing on board.

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The Red Cross is offering people safe passage out of Odesa, which could be hit like the other port cities of Mariupol and Mykolaiv.

Ten million Ukrainians have now fled their homes, according to the UN.

I'm on the bus too, talking to people and trying to understand where they go from here.

I catch sight of a young woman who has tears in her eyes and I ask her if she would talk to me.

Julia Gritsay is one of the many Ukrainians who have fled their home since the war began.

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At 26 years old her life has been turned upside down.

"I was hugging my mum and struggling to hold back my tears," she tells me.

"At least she's somewhere safe here. The rest of my family is in Mariupol."

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The southeastern port city of Mariupol has been obliterated by Russian attacks and Julia tells me she has not heard from her family. She sobs as she tells me her story.

"We didn't think it was going to be that bad. We were talking to my grandmother on 1 March. She was born in 1943. It would be very sad if she didn't survive this war as well."

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"A friend messaged me and said someone with the same family name as me had been evacuated. But it turned out to be coincidence, they weren't from my family," Julia said.

"I was naive enough to think that no one would ever attack Ukraine because we have a powerful ally in [the] Russian Federation. No one would even dare. It feels like like a stab to the back.

"I hope people will understand Ukrainians are not to be blamed. We were just trying to stay and grow as a nation in our country. We weren't invading anyone else's country. Yes, there are political games, but right now, people's lives are stake."

Julia says she intends to cross the border into Moldova from where she hopes to travel on to Canada and a new life.