First round table of the study day "Three years of war in Ukraine: assessment and perspectives", co-organized by Desk Russia at Inalco on February 24, 2025

With :

Florence Hartmann, journalist and essayist.

Christian Castagna, analyst in European and international affairs

Véronique Nahoum-Grappe, anthropologist

Moderator: Sylvie Rollet, academic, president of For Ukraine, for their freedom and ours.

Introductory remarks by Tetyana Ogarkova, Ukrainian journalist and political scientist, via video link from Kyiv: "The resilience of Ukrainian society".

On Monday, February 24, 2025, on the occasion of the third anniversary of the special military operation launched by Moscow to conquer Ukraine, Desk Russia organized in Paris at the INALCO premises a series of round tables intended to better understand the stakes of a war which, beyond the aggression, reveals a desire to erase the Ukrainian people and their culture.

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Because "For Ukraine, for their freedom and ours!" has been documenting the various crimes it reveals since the beginning of this new aggression, Desk Russia entrusted us with the responsibility of leading a round table where its different aspects were explained.

Under the responsibility of

• According to Sylvie Rollet, president of the association, the discussions therefore revolved around the interventions of Florence Hartmann, journalist and essayist, who documented how Moscow premeditated the crime of aggression against Ukraine, particularly in its aspects of plundering museums located in the occupied territories.

• by Véronique Nahoum-Grappe, anthropologist, who put into perspective this morbid desire of the Russian aggressor to sexually assault anyone he could find in front of him, recalling in particular that this was a war objective among others - such as the abduction of children - allowing the annihilation of a people whose existence is denied,

• and Christian Castagna , an international relations analyst and advocacy manager at "Pour l'Ukraine", who, through his intervention on the annexation of Kherson by Russian forces from March to November 2022, explained in concrete terms how this Russian policy was implemented, with the systematic repression of the Ukrainian-speaking population, identified before the aggression, and then the coordinated looting from Moscow of the main museums of this city.