Exhausted soldiers, in muddy fatigues, with empty eyes, holed up in trenches full of slush and snow, or in the disused basements of Bakhmout, the Ukrainian Verdun, who talk about their jammed rifle, their fear, their hunger. And of this death that they saw so close.
Images of the weariness of the Ukrainian army invaded the media. We had already been shocked by the carnage of Mariupol, a gigantic skeleton calcined after three months of bombardments; the shelling of hospitals, maternities and apartment buildings – potential war crimes; the abandoned corpses, their hands tied behind their backs, in the potholed streets of Boutcha and Izioum; the haggard eyes of refugees, women, children, their stuffed animals in their arms, disembarking in Polish stations…
The world must now face the face of demoralized Ukrainian soldiers. Even Volodymyr Zelensky no longer hides his concern. The situation on the military front “complicated in Bakhmout, Vougledar, Lyman and other regions”he said on February 5.
The war has already gone on for too long. The year that has passed since February 24, 2022, the date of the invasion of Ukraine, resonates like centuries. One hundred thousand soldiers dead on each side, 40,000 civilians killed, towns razed… “Look at the hopes we have placed in a quick ceasefire, tells us the historian Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau. As if, in history, we had often seen a battle corps on the offensive
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