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3:49 p.m. : Hello Maryse Burgot, were you scared? How to remain neutral in such situations? How do you manage not to take sides? Congratulations for what you do !
3:50 p.m. : We try to cover the conflict as well as possible, to tell stories, we work a lot with civilians but also with the army. To find stories you have to take your car, go to the front, go to sensitive areas. That’s not what is difficult. What is complicated is the apprehension of danger. When are we moving forward? When do we stop? There are dozens of stories, but as we have already done a lot of things, we have to look for the following ones in very tense areas. It’s a clever balance: is it worth taking risks to do this subject?
3:47 p.m. : Hello Maryse Burgot, thank you for your work. How do we always find new information, scoops, in a conflict that is slowing down or even coming to a standstill?
3:46 p.m. : It is all the same very different in the nature of the war. In Ukraine we are in an artillery war, with trenches, a line of contact which is frozen in some places and not in others. As between Jerusalem and Palestine, we thought that the balance of power was disproportionate in Ukraine, it is perhaps not that much even if the situation is complicated for Donbass.
3:45 p.m. : Hello Mathilde, my question to Maryse is the following: can we compare the Donbass in Jerusalem and Palestine which have been in conflict for decades? Thanking you in advance for your response. Good end of the day ☀ Stéphane from Thonon-les-Bains, go yellow
3:45 p.m. : I find this a particularly dangerous conflict to cover. We are now in an artillery war, with almost permanent shelling of the areas where we are going. There is very little lull and so to do a subject you have to go to these areas. It’s dangerous, more than what I’ve done before.
3:44 p.m. : Thank you Mrs Burgot, congratulations for your work in the field. Do you see specificities in the current conflict, compared to the conflicts that you have had to cover in the past? How do these specificities impact your work and the journalist you are?
3:44 p.m. : Yes, there is a risk that the public will get bored. I have already experienced this in Syria, where I saw that people were tired of this end to the war against Daesh. Even today, the war in Ukraine no longer makes the opening of our newspapers. But I am convinced that we must continue to go there. As for renewing myself, I’m leaving Monday for the 4th time for three weeks, and in fact we always find new angles, because the situation is so tough that we always find stories.
3:41 p.m. : Is it difficult to find new things to tell after three months of war? Do you fear that the public will get tired of this subject?
3:44 p.m. : I now welcome in this direct the great reporter Maryse Burgot, who spent several weeks in Ukraine to cover the Russian invasion. She will answer your questions for half an hour, particularly on how to cover a conflict that develops over time. Do not hesitate to ask him your questions in comments with the keyword #UKRAINE.
2:16 p.m. : Many of you would like to thank Maryse Burgot, great reporter for France Télévisions, who will be on this live to answer your questions from 3:30 p.m. More specifically, she will talk about how to cover a long-lasting conflict, how to keep people interested, etc. Do not hesitate to send me your questions now with the keyword #UKRAINE.
2:15 p.m. : Just to express my admiration for Maryse and all the other journalists who cover this war. Without them, we would only have misinformation. You deserve respect. Take care of yourself.
2:03 p.m. : According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, 87 people died in a Russian attack on May 17 against a Ukrainian military base in the north of the country. He spoke by videoconference at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland).
1:38 p.m. : Here is a best-of content not to be missed on our site:
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After the Boutcha massacre, the chilling testimonies of victims of rape committed by the Russian occupier
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1:33 p.m. : Vadim Chichimarine, the first Russian soldier tried for “war crime” since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, who has just been sentenced to life imprisonmentwill call. “It is the most severe sentence and any sane person would appeal”said the young man’s lawyer. (EFREM LUKATSKY / AP / SIPA)
1:30 p.m. : Your keyboards ! From 3:30 p.m., I will receive in this live Maryse Burgot, a great reporter for France Télévisions, who spent several weeks in Ukraine to cover the war between kyiv and Moscow. She will answer your questions for half an hour on how to deal with a conflict that stretches over time. Do not hesitate to send me your questions now with the keyword #UKRAINE.
12:46 p.m. : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky calls for more weapons and sanctions at Davos forum in Switzerland “maximum” against Moscow, including a complete shutdown of trade with Russia. He also called for more weapons for his country.
12:27 : Sergeant Vadim Chichimarine, 21, had admitted shooting dead Oleksandre Chelipov, a 62-year-old civilian, in the northeast of the country during the early days of the Russian army’s invasion of Ukraine.
12:26 p.m. : The first Russian soldier tried for a “war crime” since the invasion of Ukraine has been found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.
12:19 p.m. : It is noon. Here is a new point of the news of the day:
We will have waited a long time: the team of the new Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne found itself at the Elysée Palace this morning for its first Council of Ministers which really launches the second five-year term of Emmanuel Macron. Follow our live.
“I could no longer bear to see him, to suffer from it and that he was not worried in any way.” Margaux, a 35-year-old former centrist activist, filed a rape complaint against Damien Abad. She agreed to testify.
Météo France lifted the orange alert for thunderstorms in the twenty departments concerned on Sunday, after major localized damage. Rain or thundery showers are still expected this morning in a large northern half of the country.
• A security guard was killed at the Qatar Embassy in Paris. An investigation was opened for “intentional homicide” and a suspect was arrested.
Three months after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, accusations of rape against the occupying forces are increasing, especially in the liberated towns of the kyiv region, like Boutcha. Testimonials.
09:18 : Three months after the start of the war, Russia is trying to turn its back on the retaliatory measures imposed by Western countries. For how long ? Response elements.
09:00 : It’s 9 o’clock. Here is a new point of the news of the day:
We will have waited a long time: the team of the new Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne must tread the gravel of the Elysée shortly before 10 a.m. for a Council of Ministers which really launches the second five-year term of Emmanuel Macron. Follow our live.
“I could no longer bear to see him, to suffer from it and that he was not worried in any way.” Margaux, a 35-year-old former centrist activist, filed a rape complaint against Damien Abad. She agreed to testify.
Météo France lifted the orange alert for thunderstorms in the twenty departments concerned on Sunday, after major localized damage. Rain or thundery showers are still expected this morning in a large northern half of the country.
Three months after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, accusations of rape against the occupying forces are increasing, especially in the liberated towns of the kyiv region, like Boutcha. Testimonials.
08:33 : Oleksandra Matviychuk is director of the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine, which is currently documenting war crimes committed by Russian forces. According to her, “Sexual violence is part of the terror that Russian soldiers have imposed in the occupied territories, in order to quickly gain control of these territories and keep it”. These crimes “are very often accompanied by damage to the health of the survivors of these rapes. There is a lot of cruelty”, she points out. Here is our story.
08:33 : “When she told a friend what she had been through, she said she hated herself, she hated her own body. She was thinking about suicide.”
Psychologist, Aliona Kryvuliak coordinates the listening lines of the organization La Strada Ukraine. She accompanies two women who testified to sexual violence during the occupation of Boutcha. One of them was repeatedly raped by three soldiers one evening at her home, “under the eyes of her three-year-old child”, she describes to us. His second patient, a witness to rape in Boutcha, has lived since “in a permanent state of fear”.
08:33 : Konstantin Gudauskas told the World that he had evacuated 203 people from Boutcha. Among them, at least 17 rape victims, according to his testimony. With franceinfo, the resident of Boutcha tells the story of a teenager that he was able to get out of the martyred city. “She spent ten days imprisoned in a basement. There is not a single day when she has not been raped”, he assures.
08:33 : Three months after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, accusations of rape against the occupying forces are increasing, especially in the liberated towns of the kyiv region, like Boutcha. In this article, I return to these first chilling accounts of sexual violence committed by the Russian occupier.
07:06 : Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has pushed the number of uprooted people worldwide above 100 million for the first time, the United Nations warned on Monday.
06:36 : “All Russian forces are concentrated in Lugansk and Donetsk regions… They are using scorched earth tactics, they are deliberately destroying the city.”
Crucial point of this battle of Donbass, Severodonetsk, in the Lugansk region, is under fire from Moscow “Round the clock”, was indignant Serguiï Gaïdaï, governor of the Lugansk region
07:19 : Moscow continues to step up its firepower in the Donbass. There are, according to Serguiï Gaïdaï, governor of the Luhansk region, the units withdrawn from the Kharkiv region (north-east), the attackers of the siege of Mariupol (south-east), the militias of the separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk , Chechen forces and troops mobilized as reinforcements from Siberia and the Russian Far East.
07:21 : It’s 6 o’clock. Here is a first point of the news of the day:
We will have waited a long time: the team of the new Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne must tread the gravel of the Elysée shortly before 10 a.m. for a Council of Ministers which really launches the second five-year term of Emmanuel Macron, with already a false note : the rape charges against Damien Abad.
Météo France lifted the orange alert for thunderstorms in the twenty departments concerned on Sunday. Rain or thundery showers are still expected this morning in a large northern half of the country.
The situation becomes “Harder and harder” for the Ukrainians in the Donbass where Moscow is bombarding Severodonetsk “Round the clock”, as the verdict in the first war crimes trial against a Russian soldier is expected in kyiv today.