How NOT To Flee A War - FREE ENTRY
Maw, 03 Maw
|Le Pub
How NOT to Flee a War is a first-hand talk by Ukrainian journalist Maria Romanenko, co-presented with her partner Jez Myers, telling the story of their attempt to escape Kyiv and Ukraine as Russia launched its full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022.
Time & Location
03 Maw 2026, 19:00 – 22:30
Le Pub, 14 High St, Newport NP20 1FW, UK
About The Event
How NOT to Flee a War is a first-hand talk by Ukrainian journalist Maria Romanenko, co-presented with her partner Jez Myers, telling the story of their attempt to escape Kyiv and Ukraine as Russia launched its full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022.
What begins as a sudden, surreal morning of explosions and disbelief quickly becomes a frantic and uncertain decision: whether to stay, where to go, and how to leave a city that is rapidly emptying under threat. The talk is built around their real journey out of Ukraine, using personal storytelling and images from the road to show what the first days of invasion felt like from the inside.
Rather than a polished narrative of survival, Maria and Jez describe the experience with blunt honesty and dark humour: the endless traffic, the exhaustion, the panic, the misinformation, and the crushing reality of borders under pressure. They explore the strange mixture of fear and normality, people…