Before the Russian army launched an invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, French war correspondent Loup Bureau was embedded in Donbass, the restive borderland in Eastern Ukraine, which since 2014 has bee…
on Feb. 24, French war correspondent Loup Bureau was embedded in Donbass, the restive borderland in Eastern Ukraine, which since 2014 has been the site of an ongoing conflict between Russian-backed separatist groups and Ukrainian government forces.
“He was afraid that the city would be taken by the Russians in the very first days,” said Bureau. “He didn’t even have any clothes” when he left the capital. Frustrated by the logistical challenges, the reporter returned to Paris to regroup. A former Cairo-based correspondent for media including French broadcaster TV5Monde, Bureau’s interest in Ukraine grew out of the 2013-14 Maidan Revolution, a series of peaceful, large-scale demonstrations that ousted the pro-Russian, authoritarian President Viktor Yanukovych. In 2016, he started covering the war in Donbass, a conflict that briefly captured the world’s attention before global interest faded.
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