This weekend, Anne-Sophie Lapix flew discreetly to Ukraine.
For reasons of security and confidentiality, France 2 did not wish to communicate upstream on the relocation of the television news.
At 8 p.m., this Monday evening, the presenter takes the antenna, standing, live from the forecourt of Lviv station.
The flow is fast, more than usual.
The index cards in his hands are shaking.
The emotion, colonized by stress, is palpable.
The journalist sends the first report on the situation in Kyiv.
For fifteen minutes, the subjects follow one another and focus mainly on the daily life of Ukrainians.
From Mariupol to Mykolaiv, nightmarish images follow one another and tell of the distress of the country's inhabitants.
The angle chosen points to the way in which the Russian army attacks civilians.
On the 19th day of war, the cities look like fields of ruin.
The before/after photos are stunning.
Until then, nothing particularly justifies the presence of Anne-Sophie Lapix on the ground.
But at the end of a subject on the weather suspended in Odessa where the population seems to live normally despite the danger of seeing enemy troops seize this strategic point, the presenter puts on her journalist's cap.
Faced with Andriy Sadovi, the mayor of Lviv who gave her an exclusive interview a few hours earlier, she has the face of empathy.
He wants to be reassuring, saying that the Ukrainians will end up winning this war.
He thanks the France Télévisions teams for having had the courage to travel to report on what Ukraine is going through.
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While 2.8 million people have already left the country, Anne-Sophie Lapix has chosen to meet families on the platforms of Lviv station.
She attends the heartbreaking farewells of those separated by this war.
Some embark for Poland, she manages to extract from them a few words made of distress and anger.
Then head for the streets of Lviv where this time, the journalist embarks her cameras in bunkers buried since the last century and which, today, serve as shelter.
The Ukrainian cultural heritage classified by Unesco, today threatened by bombs, is in turn the subject of a subject embodied by the journalist at the national museum, most of whose masterpieces have been taken down and placed safe.
A final infographic to try to decipher Putin's ambitions, a magneto on Russian aviation and, at 8:35 p.m., Anne-Sophie Lapix returns to Karine Baste-Régis, on set in Paris, after thanking the 23 journalists thanks to which she was able to lead this special edition, in the long term.