It was two years ago to the day, in the early morning of February 24: after months of tension, verbal escalation and speculation, Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine. From the promise of a lightning conquest of Ukraine to the first Russian failures, from the first Ukrainian victories to the counter-offensive, where are we today? Special edition.
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The war has become bogged down, trenches have been dug along a front which is moving very little in one direction or the other. What assessment of the military situation ? What prospects forUkraine ? Is there a risk of Western support fading? Can Europe switch to a war economy? What about companies in Ukraine and Russia, the last two years ? The weariness and fatigue that is setting in on the Ukrainian side, the vice that has tightened on the Russian side.
This February 24, from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., RFI Matin offered you a special edition presented by Julien Coquelle-Roëhm.
Our special correspondents Anastasia Becchio And Boris Vicith, live from kyiv, illustrate Ukraine’s entry into a third year of war with a series of reports in Lviv, kyiv, Kharkiv and on the military front in Kupiansk. RFI correspondents in Ukraine, Stéphane Siohan And Emmanuelle Chazewho cover daily news Ukrainian, will help take stock of these two years of war.
In Moscow, RFI’s permanent special correspondent, Anissa El Jabri, looks back on the two years of this conflict on the Russian side with a particular focus on the repercussions of this war on relations between Kyrgyzstan and Russia. Finally, in video, Arthur Ponchelet takes stock of the sanctions hitting Russia.
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The editorial staff in Romanian, Russian and Ukrainian also offer special programming, with a series of reports in Russian from Sergey Dmitriev carried out in Ukraine from Odessa to Kharkiv, via Kherson, Kramatorsk and kyiv.
On his digital offer in UkrainianRFI offers a series of articles on the post-conflict situation in Ukraine, including the lives of displaced people, changes in the media, the experience of dual nationals, foreign fighters and exiles in France.