The writer-philosopher has made several trips to Ukraine since the pro-European democratic revolution of Maidan in 2014 and after the start of the Russian offensive, which plunged the country into war, on February 24.
From his meetings with the major players in Ukrainian political life - ex-president Petro Poroshenko, Volodymyr Zelensky (shortly before his election) and the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko - but also with simple fighters and everyday heroes, he shot a film,
Why Ukraine
, which will be broadcast Tuesday evening on Arte.
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LE FIGARO.- Why this film in Ukraine?
Bernard-Henri LEVY.
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I was horrified by this war.
Crazy with anger and shame.
Overwhelmed with sadness, too, at the idea that we were...
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