Special Envoy to Odessa
A little incongruous, the appointment was fixed in the parking lot of a Leroy-Merlin department store, next to an Auchan supermarket. The two French brands are located in the vast Riviera shopping center, just outside Odessa, the strategic Black Sea port in southern Ukraine. Just over a year ago, the shopping arcade was partially destroyed by bombing. The scars of the Russian attack have already disappeared. On the still deserted parking lot forms a convoy of about ten cars, escorted by the police, which rushes towards the neighboring region of Mykolaiv. Head to the Tyligulska wind farm. A hundred kilometers from the front.
Once on the main road, blocked by rare military checkpoints and lined here and there with "Czech hedgehogs", these anti-tank frieze horses ready to block the way, the convoy enters a maze of dusty tracks. In this infinite plain of soft green fields, at the foot of a wind turbine...
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