“Unlearned Helplessness”: a ROMB film about volunteers and Ukrainian refugees
A documentary by ROMB, released in October 2022, about how volunteers in St Petersburg help Ukrainian refugees travel through Russia to Europe. Its subjects are Archbishop Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko, son of Alexander Galich and one of the organisers of a refugee aid chat in St Petersburg, and a volunteer named Ekaterina. The film tells the stories of families from Vovchansk, Mariupol and Kharkiv, and recounts the trial of Father Grigory’s wife.