This is his first visit there since the start of the war.
“
It's impressive.
We perceive here an extremely strong feeling of resistance, a very powerful desire to return to normal life,
” observes Valérie Pécresse on discovering, in Ukraine, the devastation committed by Vladimir Putin's army.
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On Friday morning, the LR president of the Île-de-France region arrived in Tchernihiv to assess the needs.
In this region located in the north of the country, 40 kilometers from the Russian border, the elected representative discovered an area impacted by six weeks of siege.
She was able to go to "
liberated
" areas awaiting reconstruction, while in the more tense front areas, around a hundred deaths are recorded every day.
“
It's a trench warfare
,” says Valérie Pécresse, describing a country divided into three parts: the west, which has not known war;
the north which suffered an invasion before the withdrawal of Russian forces;
and the south-east very exposed to a double risk of encirclement…
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