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Given the extremely dense current affairs, we have prepared a second special edition of your daily letter, on the issues of a conflict whose consequences are getting closer to us.
French cadets learn at the Foch school that war is made up of uncertainty and flashes.
However, after a week of fighting, the Russian army is finally organizing the security of supplies for its columns that have recklessly advanced into Ukrainian territory, and is preparing for the major sieges to come, in particular at Mariupol, Kharkiv and Kiev.
Urban battles that are slow and costly in material, men and ammunition, are now the pivot of contemporary wars from Sarajevo to Fallujah via Kobané.
It is uncertainty.
The liberal democracies of Western Europe show themselves to be determined and united, Germany wants to rebuild an army, arms deliveries are organized by the European Union, harsh economic sanctions are taken with some degree of unanimity, and the United States stands far away.
Seven days gave birth to a new world.
It's dazzling.
Good reading,
Louis Lecomte
What is the military situation?
The situation on Saturday March 5, 2022 at dawn.
Le Figaro.
The siege of Kiev and Kharkiv
is heading towards a scenario familiar to contemporary strategists: a long house-to-house siege marked by artillery, snipers and booby traps.
The Ukrainian capital is 800km²: in 1996 it took one year and eight months for Russia to take Grozny (330km²).
Our special correspondent Patrick Saint-Paul recounts the hunt for Russian infiltrators.
The Russian breakthrough in the South
enabled the forces emerging from Crimea to take the largest nuclear power plant in Europe in Zaporizhzhia, then split in two directions: towards the West to take the port of Odessa, and towards the East to take the port of Mariupol.
Our reporter Anne-Laure Bonnel is in the Donbass in a pincer movement.
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