“When you are in Ukraine, you realize that wherever you go, there are families who, in one way or another, are separated, broken or bereaved. It's everywhere and all the time”
, testifies Élise Lucet on the set of “C à vous” this Thursday evening.
A few minutes before the launch of a device dedicated to the one year of the war in Ukraine on France 2, the journalist shared the underside of "Special Envoy".
About ten days ago, the face of the investigative magazine left with its teams in Ukraine.
The presenter tells behind the scenes of this new issue.
“In Kiev, we happened to experience three days of attack alerts”
, she describes before explaining that the inhabitants questioned, they
“were no longer afraid of anything after a year of war”
.
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During the talk show presented by Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine, some excerpts from “Special Envoy” were broadcast and then commented on by Élise Lucet.
“It's striking, moving…”
, she says after a sequence devoted to a school where the pupils proudly declare to her
“to work for a more radiant future in Ukraine”
.
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The journalist also confides that she was moved to find Natacha, a resident of Bakhmout, whose neighboring houses were destroyed by the bombardments.
In front of the images of this Ukrainian woman in tears who only wants one thing, that "
the war stops"
, she judges that her teams have been able to recover
"powerful testimonies"
in this conflict where civilians have been massively killed and affected. .
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But beyond a large number of Ukrainian portraits, Élise Lucet insists on the fact that her teams formally wanted to question the Russian side.
"We must not be naive, there is a real communication war and we wanted to hear both voices,"
she concludes.
Just before the testimony of the journalist from "Special Envoy", Anne-Sophie Lapix also answered a few questions in duplex from Kiev station.
The presenter will be at the controls of the "20 Hours" for a special edition and confides that as this anniversary approaches, the fear of a new offensive by Vladimir Putin weighs on the morale of the Ukrainians.