On February 24, 2022, while the Russian tanks were still rolling at high speed on the Ukrainian asphalt, the special bulletins paraded on the screen of the news channels.
Notifications crackled on phones, and millions of blue and yellow messages in support of kyiv graced social networks.
Away from the front line, retired French officers returned to service, this time to keep an uninterrupted chronicle of a war brewing in Europe.
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It was the time when millions of Internet users discovered the “Ukraine War Map” site, which maps the state of the conflict in real time.
This tool, which had become essential - in fact it was already in 2014 during the first conflict in the Donbass - quickly paid the price for its success, and during the first days of the invasion, the page had to be reloaded dozens of times. to obtain a readable map as the site was quickly overloaded.
Almost four months later, it is no longer necessary to press…
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