The special operation launched on February 24, 2022 by Vladimir Putin aimed to decapitate Ukraine in a few days. At the time, American intelligence officials fear that kyiv will fall in 4 days. The extraordinary resistance of the Ukrainians, on the front page of L’Express this week, initially made it possible to contain the Russian invader, then to carry out ambitious counter-offensives in the east.
This very high-intensity conflict, which marks the return of war on the European continent and is seen daily on social networks, we wanted to summarize it in video, through five key stages, told by Clément Daniez, journalist at World service of L’Express.