In Ukraine, the army and civilians ready for a long war: the story of the special envoy of Le Figaro

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In the Ukrainian resistance, there was a first phase of response to Russian commando operations in kyiv, aimed at decapitating the regime;

the exodus of families (5 million people have fled abroad and

6 million to the west of the country);

of a mass levy of the male population of fighting age.

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The second phase was that of the war of movement: the Russians managed to take Kherson (which guaranteed them the water supply of the Crimea) and all the coast of the Sea of ​​Azov;

the Ukrainians succeeded in repelling the invader from north of kyiv towards Belarus, then from east of Kharkiv towards Russia.

Have no fear, those fighter-bombers in the sky are ours!

A Ukrainian couple

eight to one

Here begins the third phase of the conflict, which is that of the war of positions.

The Russian forces, which seek to conquer the entirety of the "oblasts" (administrative regions) of Donetsk and Luhansk (of which Moscow has recognized the independence), progress there, at a turtle's pace, destroying everything in front of them at the artillery.

The battle rages around...

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