1 March, 2023
We visit Kalynivka, a small Ukrainian town two hours by train south-west of Kyiv. The local hospital, the
pride of its inhabitants, is going to receive two generators financed by the French municipality of Sainte-
Menehould. We’ve come to meet the Mayor, who gives us a warm welcome in his office.
On February 24, Kalynivka was 250km from the nearest Russian troops. None the less, this is where the
first missiles struck Ukraine, targetting the town’s garrison, killing 2 people and injuring 28 civilians.
Despite its distance from the fighting, Kalynivka has felt the full impact of the war, and acknowledges a
debt to ‘its’ brigade who left for the front – the Mayor shows us photos of vehicles, food and warm
clothing sent by the population to their soldiers. This town of 18,000 people ...
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24 February, 2023
One year.
On February 24, 2022, Russia sent its army to attack Kyiv.
On February 24, 2022, we knew that this Russian aggression signified the worst for the Ukrainian people.
On February 24, 2022, Ukraine, its people and its President chose resistance and freedom.
On February 24, 2022, we made a solemn commitment to be on Ukraine’s side in its fight for the right to exist.
For an entire year now, Ukraine has frustrated predictions of its defeat, and Ukrainian society continues its heroic fight for survival, on the European path that it has democratically chosen.
For an entire year now, the world has discovered the courage, dignity and absolute commitment of the entire Ukrainian people, who have upset the criminal plans of the Kremlin and its accomplices who only gave it th...
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22 February, 2023
In the night of February 22, exactly one year ago, French and Ukrainians came together to protest against this invasion, that few wanted to happen but which seemed inevitable thanks to the threatening will of a single man. One year ago, we gathered anxious, incredulous, facing the relentless course of events that, hour after hour, were to lead to the subjugation of a people, the destruction of an entire nation, punished for having once again chosen, eight years ago, freedom during the Revolution of Dignity of Maidan.
On February 22, while hour after hour Russian soldiers entered occupied Donbas, and then on the morning of February 24, while the Kremlin drunk on power revealed its intentions in broad daylight beneath the whine of missiles, we swore to support Ukraine until victory.
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