Irish man fleeing to Ukrainian border says 14-year-old boy among the many dead in 'hot war'

Brendan Murphy and his family in Ukraine.

As Brendan Murphy and his family were slowly making their way to the European border with millions of other Ukrainians on Friday afternoon, the Irishman described the Russian invasion on the ground as very much a “hot war”.

“There are a lot of people dead. There’s a lot of Russians dead," Mr Murphy told the Irish Examiner.