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'I saw the news and packed a bag': Ukraine refugee on fleeing Russia war - video diary
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3:25Now PlayingMargareeta is a 23-year-old musician from Kyiv, Ukraine. Like millions of others, she fled the city soon after Russia began their invasion.
While making her long journey to safety, she recorded a video diary for the New Statesman documenting her experiences.
The night before the invasion began, Margareeta says she was with friends, “drinking and singing Ukrainian songs from the Orange Revolution”. Although they were talking about the war, “we couldn’t expect that it would happen just that morning”.
After watching Vladimir Putin’s declaration of war live on YouTube, she heard explosions. Margareeta packed a bag so she could be “ready to leave at any moment”. After spending the first nights sleeping in a bomb shelter, she started to panic. “I couldn’t do anything useful,” she says.
Like many who have fled the conflict, Margareeta hopes to return: “I love Kyiv with all of my heart and I’m just waiting for a possibility to rebuild it.”
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