🇬🇧Four years ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, opening one of the deadliest and most destabilizing conflicts in Europe since the Second World War. That day, I was not in Kyiv, nor in Paris. I was in Nagorno-Karabakh, in the mountains around Shusha, at the heart of another conflict, the one between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The clash of weapons was not a media abstraction: it echoed in the stone, in the icy air, in the tense silen

Odessa is a city unlike any other in the country, facing the Black Sea, and it was striking to witness Russian drone attacks at night, then see life resume its course during the day, with people working, walking in the streets, even going to the beach. Life must go on.