14 December, 2025
Winter 2025–2026 is shaping up to be critical for civilian populations in Ukraine.Russian strikes are now targeting not only energy infrastructure—power plants and transmission lines—but also the entire energy supply chain.
Since late 2024 and throughout 2025, attacks on energy infrastructure have intensified sharply: more than 80% of the territory has experienced power outages lasting up to 16 hours a day. In several regions—Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Chernihiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia—infrastructure is particularly fragile.
Today, more than 63,000 Ukrainian energy facilities have been damaged by massive strikes and targeted attacks. Damage and losses suffered by Ukraine’s energy sector have exceeded $56 billion, according to an estimate by the KSE Institute as of May 2024.
Energy has becom...
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4 December, 2025
Serhii is 23 years old and comes from Sumy. He belongs to the young generation whose destiny has been upended by the Russian aggression. Enlisting in the army at 18, he defended Mariupol in 2022 before being taken prisoner. He spent several months in captivity, tortured in the Russian Olenivka prison, which was later bombed by Russian forces themselves, resulting in 53 casualties, all Ukrainian soldiers like Serhii.
Demobilized since 2023, this experience has profoundly marked his life. Today, he is seeking a new path to rebuild himself.
He was one of the 11 trainees of the 2025 cohort, trained this summer by Cuisine Mode d’Emploi-S-, the school of Michelin-starred chef Thierry Marx, in partnership with the instructors from the Jules Lecesne Hotel and Catering High School in Le Havre. Th...
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3 December, 2025
A Remarkable Day for Franco-Ukrainian Cooperation
On Monday, December 1, the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs – France Diplomatie welcomed a high-level Ukrainian delegation for a day dedicated to solidarity, culture, and the future of Ukrainian children.
The first part of the day focused on the “Bring Kids Back” conference, an initiative by President Zelensky aimed at enabling the return to Ukraine of 20,000 children forcibly taken from their families by Russia. Olena Zelenska, Brigitte Macron, Jean-Noël Barrot, Andrii Sybiha, Isabelle Rome, Bernard-Henri Lévy, and Sarah El Hairistressed the urgency of action.
"When we say that our children were deported to Russia, they did not just change addresses – their lives were shattered, and their psyche was broken."
With these words, Ol...
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