When he got off his plane arriving from Berlin, on the tarmac at Orly where he was greeted by the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared as usual.
Determined look, straight gaze, half hard, half smiling, dressed in khaki canvas pants, a simple black crew-neck sweater under a gray-beige parka: the outfit of a head of state at war for almost two years, embodying the resistance of an entire people against the Russian invader.
The contrast is striking with the suits and ties of his hosts, when he enters the Élysée at 6:45 p.m., guided by Emmanuel Macron towards the Ambassadors' lounge for a working session punctuated by the signing of a bilateral security agreement between France and Ukraine.
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