Appointment was given in a hotel opposite the Gare du Nord.
A place of transit that suits Kalush Orchestra, the Ukrainian group of six musicians who, since their victory at Eurovision in mid-May with the song "Stefania", have been entrusted with a role greater than music: to maintain attention abroad to the suffering of their country.
They are late, stuck in an embassy not far from there for a visa application.
And their luggage was lost between Amsterdam and Paris.
Derisory inconveniences of daily life.
Before answering our questions, Oleh Psiuk, the singer, still takes care to put on his head a brand new pink bob, as he is used to.
A snub to the darkness of the present time.
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