17 March, 2023
As part of their participation in the campaign ‘Lights for winter’ the Urban Area of Saint-Brieuc and its Ukrainian partner, the town of Ovroutch, met for the first time through a video conference last Friday.A town of 15,000 people near the Belarusian frontier, the municipality of Ovroutch organized its defense against Russia’s offensive in the earliest weeks of the invasion. Recalling this period of resistance followed by the on-going war and reconstruction efforts, the Mayor of Ovroutch thanked France and the Urban Area of Saint-Brieuc for their support in these difficult times.Speaking for the French, Thibaut Guignard, the Mayor of Plœuc-l’Hermitage, expressed in the name of the Urban Area the solidarity of the citizens of Saint-Brieuc with the people of Ukraine and their wish ...
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1 March, 2023
We visited Kalynivka, a small Ukrainian town two hours by train south-west of Kyiv. The local hospital, the pride of its inhabitants, is going to receive two generators financed by the French municipality of Sainte-Menehould. We’ve come to meet the Mayor, who gives us a warm welcome in his office.On February 24, Kalynivka was 250km from the nearest Russian troops. None the less, this is where the first missiles struck Ukraine, targetting the town’s garrison, killing 2 people and injuring 28 civilians. Despite its distance from the fighting, Kalynivka has felt the full impact of the war, and acknowledges a debt to ‘its’ brigade who left for the front – the Mayor shows us photos of vehicles, food and warm clothing sent by the population to their soldiers. This town of 18,000 people alrea...
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25 February, 2023
We are delighted to invite you, as part of the Babylon Villeneuve project, to a special screening of the documentary War Diary, directed by Roman Liubyi from the Ukrainian collective Babylon’13.🪖🤳 This film takes us to the heart of the war in Ukraine through videos captured between 2014 and 2015 by Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers, directly from their phones. It offers a raw, unfiltered look at a conflict where reality often defies comprehension. Through these images, we discover a world governed by strange, almost surreal laws, far removed from our everyday lives.📹 The protagonists in these videos live extraordinary lives: they laugh, cry, and document moments of existence, all while knowing that any moment could be their last. In this space where e...
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