Special Envoy to Sloboda-Kouharska
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Painted wooden houses, storks perched on electric poles and flowering spring trees: a hundred kilometers northwest of kyiv, Sloboda-Kouharska resembles other towns in the Ukrainian countryside.
But on this Friday in June, men in dark blue uniforms walk through the village.
Accompanied by Ukrainian magistrates and police officers, a team of 17 French gendarmes was sent on site to investigate war crimes, within the framework of Franco-Ukrainian cooperation.
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The few villagers, surprised at first by this group of strangers, approach cautiously.
"
My husband found the body of a soldier while going fishing, he's still there, we don't know what to do
," an old lady modestly whispers, in farm clothes.
Over there further in the field, there are still four others, but they are Russians.
On her face can still be read all the tension of the 21 days she spent in…
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