Ukraine, after a thousand days of war, so fragile, so tragic

If at the start of the conflict the live images from the battlefield shook and petrified us, since then we have gotten used to it.


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Béatrice Delvaux


Editorialist at chef

By Béatrice Delvaux

Published on 11/19/2024 at 00:01
Reading time: 2 min


M10 days of war and the situation in Ukraine seems more tragic, even desperate, than ever. A thousand days of lifeless life for those who remained, under the bombs, in fear, shortages, fighting, engaged in a life-and-death struggle to recover their integrity, preserve their identity or “simply” survive. A thousand days and a thousand nights repelling the invader meter by meter, minute by minute. The live images from the battlefield shook and petrified us, with close-ups of roads littered with civilian corpses, devastated factories and neighborhoods, mass graves. But that was at the beginning. Since then, we have gotten used to it, we have learned to live alongside these neighbors again, about whom, let’s be fair, we were unaware until then.



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