It is a crossing full of melancholy. Room after room, the Khanenko National Museum of Fine Arts in Kyiv exhibits desperately empty walls. On the ground, the parquet floors retain in places the imprint of broken glass caused by a missile which fell in October 2022 a few tens of meters from the building, fortunately already evacuated. “Browsing through this museum is a very emotional moment”, says Carole Bouquet.
The actress accepted at short notice the invitation of the French Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak to go to Ukraine on Thursday February 23, on the eve of the first anniversary of the outbreak of the Russian offensive. A twelve-hour whirlwind tour with a five-person delegation “both a spokesperson for France and its action”, assures the minister: the novelist and director Jonathan Littell, the actress Anaïs Demoustier, the director of the Louvre Museum Laurence des Cars and Valéry Freland, director of the Aliph foundation for the protection of heritage in conflict zones.
“It had been a long time since my Ukrainian counterpart had invited us. It was the right time,” explains Rima Abdul Malak. To the bitter battle in which the armies are engaged for the control of square kilometres, is added the confrontation, also violent, of culture and ideas.. “As we can be militarily, we are also on Ukraine’s side in the war that is being waged against the values that are at the heart of
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