the concern of the inhabitants of Odessa, a besieged city

In Odessa, Ukraine, it is rumored that a train could leave on the evening of Monday March 7, to the west of the country. So the families are waiting. “People here have to leave their homes, their native land in a few hours, leave with nothing to an unknown destination”, confides a Ukrainian woman. Many fear that the game is unequal, and that the Russian army is too powerful.

A café transformed into a storage center

On the main boulevard, a cafe has been transformed into a storage center. The blockade of the city is installed. “We have three types of products: medicines, food and basically, clothes and blankets”, says a volunteer at the center. A young Frenchman, Jérôme Constantin, says he wants to be useful. A young woman paints Ukrainian flags. Whatever the outcome of the military battle, she wants to tell the Russians that they are not at home here.