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Fabrice Deprez

@fabricedeprez.bsky.social
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Journalist covering #Ukraine with ‪the Financial Times‬ / Also seen in La Croix, Les Jours, Foreign Policy & others

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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW: AI has made warfare faster and more lethal, but hasn't made it easier to win. Our deep dive on how AI is being integrated into the battlefield, with @johnthornhill.bsky.social @digitalcampbell.ft.com @fabricedeprez.bsky.social and Charles Clover as.ft.com/r/948d5342-a...
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The era of AI warfare has arrived
Autonomous systems are being rapidly integrated on the battlefield, as models advance in ways even their creators cannot fully predict
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RAAM – op Rusland, Oekraïne en Belarus @platformraam.nl · 17/08/2026
Naarmate het front langzaam dichterbij komt, veranderen Oekraïense frontsteden geleidelijk steeds meer in oorlogsgebieden. Journalist @fabricedeprez.bsky.social beschrijft de hoe hij de dorpen en steden langs het front met eigen ogen langzaam zag sterven. platformraam.nl/uit-andere-m...
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Bezoek aan Kramatorsk en Slovjansk, steden die langzaam sterven
RAAM – op Rusland, Oekraïne en Belarus. Platform voor kennis, analyse en debat.
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Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
What a story from @fabricedeprez.bsky.social. Not only are they being reburied far from where they fell, they are being reburied where their evacuated families now live, often far from their Russian- occupied or soon to be occupied hometowns. www.ft.com/content/1d75...
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Even Ukraine’s dead must flee the Russian advance
Fallen Ukrainian fighters are being reburied hundreds of miles from where they died
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A Reader of the FT @a-reader-ft.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Ukrainian drone campaign chokes Moscow’s lifeline to Crimea-Russian pro-Kremlin and independent outlets describe the situation in Crimea, where petrol is available only by coupons, as a siege. www.ft.com/content/0ea7... @fabricedeprez.bsky.social Anastasia Stognei @financialtimes.com
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Ukrainian drone campaign chokes Moscow’s lifeline to Crimea
Fuel shortages are plaguing Russian-occupied peninsula that is ‘very easy to capture and very hard to keep’
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The Long War #58 eastradar.substack.com/p/the-long-w...
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The Long War #58
A drone strike in Starobilsk, police and mobilisation, migrant workers & more
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Pierre Alonso @pierrealonso.com · 26/05/2026
J’avais prévu de consacrer cette édition de ma newsletter à deux mobilisations opposées en cours en Ukraine, le genre de mouvements qui poussent à l’ombre de la guerre, et puis la nuit de samedi à dimanche est arrivée. À lire ici:
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La Déflagration #38: «La pire nuit depuis 2022»
Un récit de l'ellipse, sur trois millions.
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The Long War #57 Special issue — Manslaughter, arson, collaboration, torture: inside Ukraine's wartime justice eastradar.substack.com/p/the-long-w...
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Yes?
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A few months ago, Ukrainian Railways launched a webpage dedicated to train delays (there wasn't really a need for it before). At least 7 trains are currently delayed because of "combat actions", including one from Kyiv to Kovel (in the west of Ukraine) delayed more than 6 hours.
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
So, archive.today being apparently garbage, what are some other good resources to archive websites (saver for just downloading the page as PDF)? techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/w...
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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack | TechCrunch
Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia.
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 05/02/2026
The chalkboard that hangs behind the bar at Squat 17b does not list the drink specials — it keeps a countdown of how many more days Ukrainians must endure the harsh winter that has gripped the war-weary country. On Thursday, it read: “Days until spring: 24.” w/ @fabricedeprez.bsky.social
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Kyiv’s great freeze
Russian strikes have plunged Ukrainians into their hardest winter yet, but they still want to fight on
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
When I wrote this story in November, Ukrainian Railways had just closed the Kramatorsk train station & moved the terminus to Barvinkove. Russia is using more precise Shahed drones to hit individual trains & expand the "kill zone", the area under constant drone threat www.ft.com/content/6c58...
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Ukraine keeps trains running as end of line draws closer
Railway company adapts to increasing Russian strikes on stations, depots and power lines
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Those looking to go to Kramatorsk by train can currently only buy tickets to Lozova, 90 km west of the biggest Ukr-controlled city of the Donetsk region. Last leg of the journey can only be done in cars or buses, driving under anti-drone nets as they edge closer to Kramatorsk.
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Ukrainian Railways writes this morning that the route from Lozova (in the Kharkiv region) to the Donbas fortress of Kramatorsk remains a zone "of increased risk", days after a Russian drone strike on a passenger train near Barvinkove killed 4 people.
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
More broadly, there is I think a general tendency to confuse (purposely or not) causes and choices: the causes of the 2022 Russian invasion are of course to be found on both sides of the war; but the choice of launching it only belongs to one actor.
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The Long War #55: Dark Kyiv, Ukraine's regional shift, the Mariupol-Donetsk rivalry & more eastradar.substack.com/p/the-long-w...
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The Long War #55
Dark Kyiv, Ukraine's regional shift, the Mariupol-Donetsk rivalry & more
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Very interesting post (“Russia was sucked into the Donbas conflict” is quite an incredible Sakwa quote).
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A Reader of the FT @a-reader-ft.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Ukraine keeps trains running as end of line draws closer- Ukraine’s sprawling railway network has emerged as an indispensable means of transport and a symbol of resilience in the wake of Moscow’s full-scale invasion in 2022… www.ft.com/content/6c58... @fabricedeprez.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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Ukraine keeps trains running as end of line draws closer
Railway company adapts to increasing Russian strikes on stations, depots and power lines
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Mon interview de l'intellectuel et historien ukrainien Yaroslav Hrytsak dans @grandcontinent.bsky.social legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/1...
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La très longue guerre d'Ukraine : naissance d'une nation
« L'Ukraine est en train de quitter un monde dangereux : le monde russe. » Comment la longue durée peut-elle aider à comprendre la guerre ? Pour l’historien et intellectuel ukrainien Yaroslav Hrytsa...
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Pierre Alonso @pierrealonso.com · 03/09/2025
"Libres de résister" : excellent tour d'horizon par @fabricedeprez.bsky.social des enjeux liés à la mobilisation en Ukraine depuis 2022, avec plein d'exemples et d'anecdotes parlantes. A lire sur le @grandcontinent.bsky.social :
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Libres de résister: enquête sur la mobilisation en Ukraine | Le Grand Continent
Se mobiliser sans cesser de vivre ; tenir sans passer par l’économie de guerre. L’Ukraine a une stratégie pour articuler résistance et liberté. Mais face au manque d’hommes — et dans des expériences ...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/08/2025
Ten die in ‘massive’ Russian attack on Ukrainian capital on.ft.com/45TE5l7
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Ten die in ‘massive’ Russian attack on Ukrainian capital
Zelenskyy calls for fresh sanctions on Moscow after worst attack on Kyiv in weeks
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Pourquoi l'Ukraine peine à mobiliser ? Une longue explication dans @grandcontinent.bsky.social : legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/2...
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Libres de résister: enquête sur la mobilisation en Ukraine | Le Grand Continent
Se mobiliser sans cesser de vivre ; tenir sans passer par l’économie de guerre. L’Ukraine a une stratégie pour articuler résistance et liberté. Mais face au manque d’hommes — et dans des expériences ...
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Russia launched 352 drones as well as 16 missiles over Ukraine last night--with Kyiv being the main target for the fourth time in the past month, Ukraine's air force reports this morning t.me/kpszsu/36914
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Повітряні Сили ЗС України / Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
⚡️ ЗНЕШКОДЖЕНО 354 ЦІЛІ ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ У ніч на 23 червня (із 20.00 22 червня) противник атакував 368 засобами повітряного нападу: - 352 ударними БпЛА типу Shahed і безпілотниками-імітаторами різних типі...
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
My look at the drone-focused technological arms race between Ukraine and Russia: interceptors, fiber optics drones, and the prospect of AI-powered autonomous UAVs looming over the battlefield www.ft.com/content/ccd8...
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How AI guided Ukraine’s drones to hit Russian airfields
Artificial intelligence took over the steering of unmanned quadcopters after losing signal
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Mon reportage sur l'impossible vie à Kherson, alors que des experts de l'ONU viennent de qualifier de "crime contre l'humanité" les attaques constantes de drones russes contre les habitants de cette ville du sud de l'Ukraine www.la-croix.com/internationa...
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Guerre en Ukraine : à Kherson, la vie au rythme des attaques de drones
L’armée russe multiplie depuis plusieurs semaines les frappes de drones sur Kherson, localité du sud de l’Ukraine envahie par les Russes au cours de la première année de la guerre, puis libérée fin 20...
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Mon reportage sur l'impossible vie à Kherson, alors que des experts de l'ONU viennent de qualifier de "crime contre l'humanité" les attaques constantes de drones russes contre les habitants de cette ville du sud de l'Ukraine www.la-croix.com/internationa...
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Guerre en Ukraine : à Kherson, la vie au rythme des attaques de drones
L’armée russe multiplie depuis plusieurs semaines les frappes de drones sur Kherson, localité du sud de l’Ukraine envahie par les Russes au cours de la première année de la guerre, puis libérée fin 20...
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The Long War #50 eastradar.substack.com/p/the-long-w...
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The Long War #50
Zelensky the dictator & Talking about Crimea
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
...signs of life to avoid having the property seized by the military of occupation authorities. They'd open the windows, turn on the lights from time to time, water the plants. But this has often stopped working as Ru authorities got more aggressive.
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The piece also mentions how Russian authorities use the pretext of properties showing “signs of being ownerless”. For a while, many Ukrainians who fled the occupied territories stayed in touch with neighbors who would take care of their properties and maintain...
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
...which, as the piece highlights, involves going through FSB filtration at Moscow airport. Some Ukrainians have nevertheless done the grueling trip for fear of losing their homes (or so that they can sell it, rather than simply have it be taken from them)...
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Really good piece on the way Russia is methodically dispossessing Ukrainians of their homes. It's of course not happening only in Mariupol. And, in the past months, it has pushed an unclear number of Ukrainians to make the dangerous trip to the occupied territories...
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Moscow claims the strike in Kryvhyy Rih that killed 9 children targeted a restaurant where soldiers and "foreign mercenaries" had gathered. Footage found by @gullivercragg.bsky.social shows a near-empty restaurant, and no soldiers anywhere www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
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In Zelensky’s home town Kryvy Rih, residents fear more Russian strikes
Two Russian strikes on Friday killed 20 in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s home town Kryvy Rih, in central Ukraine. While Russia said the attack was a "precision strike" on a meeting of Ukrainian and…
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I'm still very skeptical that Moscow has any intention to go for a ceasefire in the short term. But the one thing that could encourage Putin to agree to a ceasefire is the prospect of Ukrainian elections that would be fertile ground for destabilization.
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"According to two Russian diplomats and a source close to the Kremlin, Moscow is now focusing on a third option: discrediting Zelensky in the eyes of Trump so that Washington will pressure Kyiv to hold presidential elections" www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/30/k...
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Kremlin Doubles Down on Demand to Replace Zelensky, Risking Trump’s Ire - The Moscow Times
The Kremlin is increasingly set on subjugating Ukraine by forcing a change in the country’s leadership as Moscow’s military efforts falter, five sources familiar with its thinking as well as independe...
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
...and vice-versa: if it is unacceptable to speak Russian as a Ukrainian, then it has to be because, even in some tiny ways, speaking Russian does make someone a little bit Russian (something I don't think is true at all, to be clear) kyivindependent.com/explainer-wh...
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Explainer: Some Ukrainians speak Russian language — it doesn’t make them Russian
Born in Crimea and raised in Kherson, journalist Yevheniia Virlych grew up speaking both Ukrainian and Russian in her daily life. It wasn’t until 2022, when she and her family lived through the Russia...
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Pure coincidence, but this piece from @kyivindependent.com also provides a great example of the tension at the heart of the language discussion in Ukraine. This quote and headline are mutually exclusive: if speaking Rus doesn't make one Russian, it can't be unacceptable to speak Russian...
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The paradoxes of the language discussion: a linguist hopes that Russian will in the future be spoken only by "marginalized people" in Ukraine, saying this in an interview ran by NV, which publishes all its stories in Ukrainian... and Russian nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/...
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Steven Bernard @sdbernard.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
NEW: Ukrainian forces lose ground in Kursk region as they fight on without US support. Read @fabricedeprez.bsky.social and Anastasia Stognei's report www.ft.com/content/0513... #datviz
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Une très belle lettre, avec des choses qu'il est souvent assez compliqué de placer dans nos articles. Pas d'actu, mais de l'Ukraine et des Ukrainiens :
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La Croix @la-croix.com · 01/03/2025
En Ukraine, sidération et ralliement autour de Zelensky après la rencontre avec Trump
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Rencontre Trump-Zelensky : en Ukraine, sidération et ralliement autour de Zelensky
La violence de l’échange entre les présidents américain et ukrainien, vendredi 28 février à la Maison-Blanche, semble sonner le glas de l’alliance entre les deux pays. En Ukraine, figures politiques et médiatiques se sont ralliées autour de Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Allison Meakem @ameakem.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
As Trump makes increasingly hostile statements toward Kyiv, @fabricedeprez.bsky.social checked in with Ukrainian troops on the front lines in Kramatorsk and Lyman. The vibes? Not great.
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The Mood on the Front Line, Three Years On
Ukrainian troops watch with anxiety as the United States moves closer to talks with Russia over the war.
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A lot of things can happen on this road, but I think there is where we're headed, yeah.
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Feels like Trump will soon outright demand Zelensky's resignation. If this happens, pressure on Zelensky will be massive: refusing to step down could be the pretext Trump is looking for to cease all support towards Ukraine. Something that might happen anyway, no matter what Zelensky does.
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Would love to see the results if "respected by other countries" and "feared by other countries" were separate answers.
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Pierre Alonso @pierrealonso.com · 08/01/2025
A lire aussi, cette rencontre avec Maksym Boutkevitch, un homme admirable. Militant des droits humains, soldat par nécessité, prisonnier condamné puis échangé après 30 mois de détention… www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...
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Maksym Boutkevitch : « J’ai la version de Poutine de l’histoire ukrainienne inscrite sur ma peau »
Libéré en octobre après plus de deux ans en captivité, le militant des droits humains devenu soldat Maksym Boutkevitch témoigne des sévices infligés aux prisonniers de guerre. Il appelle la justice i…
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Guerre en Ukraine : le rapprochement entre Trump et Poutine, cauchemar éveillé de Kiev www.la-croix.com/internationa...
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Guerre en Ukraine : le rapprochement entre Trump et Poutine, cauchemar éveillé de Kiev
L’échange, mercredi 12 février, entre le président américain et son homologue russe fait redouter à Kiev un « deal » dont une Ukraine impuissante ferait les frais. Dans les allées du pouvoir à Kiev, l...
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Ces lignes de Vassili Grossman à la découverte du génocide des juifs d'Ukraine...
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Sébastien Gobert @sebagobert.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Transnistrie: Tiraspol a franchi ce matin un de ses Rubicons en demandant du gaz à Chisinau. Le journ même, Chisinau acceptait et annonçait envoyer 3 millions de m3 en tant qu'aide d'urgence sur le 1-10 février, subventionnés par l'UE. C'est majeur 1/
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Ukrainska Pravda putting this quote in the literal last paragraph of a very long story has to be the worst case of burying the lede I've ever seen www.pravda.com.ua/articles/202...
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Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
(3/3) ...especially considering that both armies have major problems. Frontline progress shouldn't be discarded as an indicator of the general situation and an important data point, but nor should it be placed at the center of the analysis.
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