"The Ukrainian nation is in danger! " warn the signatories, who are asking France to " urgently provide " Ukraine with " the weapons and ammunition it needs to reconquer its entire territory ."

Russia is now supported by arms deliveries from the dictatorships of Iran and North Korea and can count on the support of China, while the military aid provided to Ukraine by its allies is beginning to run out. Faced with this situation, " a ceasefire enshrining Russia's control over Donbass, Crimea and their populations in exchange for illusory security guarantees is a decoy. Russia, once its arsenals are replenished, would be able to resume its offensive against European democracies ."

Europe must absolutely turn its defense industry as a priority towards Ukraine. The platform calls for the implementation in France of " an economic and industrial solidarity mechanism with Ukraine " that would act in five directions:

• increase the sale, manufacture and delivery of arms and ammunition;

• provide guarantees to arms manufacturers;

• equip ourselves, with our European partners, with a control body to ensure a strict embargo on the export of dual technologies;

• encourage the pooling of production tools, civil and military, in the service of defense;

• mobilize new financial resources for aid to Ukraine.

The signatories believe that " France's budgetary effort for Ukraine (around €2 billion planned for 2024-25) should be at least doubled, in order to re-establish parity with Germany, as a proportion of GDP " and stress that " these investments will benefit in the long term the improvement of France's defensive capabilities, in the face of increased risks of high-intensity conflict. "

" Peace requires the complete withdrawal of the Russian army from Ukrainian territory. Also, the means that Ukraine has lacked for two years must no longer fail it ," concludes the text, which counts among its first signatories:

Galia Ackerman, historian

Guillaume Ancel, former officer and columnist

Antoine Arjakovsky, historian and essayist

Gérard Bensussan, philosopher, professor emeritus of universities

Nicolas Bouzou, economist

Bernard Bruneteau, historian

Vincent Desportes, General (2S) of the Army

Jean-Marc Dreyfus, editor-in-chief of the Shoah History Review

Patrick Dutartre, General (2S) of the Air Force

Antoine Garapon, magistrat

André Gattolin, former senator

Michel Goya, Colonel of the Marine Troops and Historian

Etienne Klein, essayist

Marc Levy, writer

Jonathan Littell, writer

Ariane Mnouchkine, founder of the Théâtre du Soleil

Jean-Pierre Pasternak, President of the Union of Ukrainians in France

Jean-Paul Perruche, Army Corps General, teacher-researcher

Olivier Py, director of the Châtelet theater

Pierre Raiman, founding member of For Ukraine, for their freedom and ours

Robin Renucci, director of La Criée

Nicolas Richoux, General (2S) of the Army and historian

Sylvie Rollet, Professor Emeritus, President of For Ukraine, for their freedom and ours

Dominique Schnapper, former member of the Constitutional Council

Pierre Servent, author, Reserve Colonel (m)

Nicolas Tenzer, teacher at Sciences Po Paris

Xavier Tytelman, defense consultant

Michel Yakovleff, General (2S) of the ArmyFor Ukraine, for their freedom and ours! Association created by 130 academics, joined by