4 December, 2025
Serhii is 23 years old and comes from Sumy. He belongs to the young generation whose destiny has been upended by the Russian aggression. Enlisting in the army at 18, he defended Mariupol in 2022 before being taken prisoner. He spent several months in captivity, tortured in the Russian Olenivka prison, which was later bombed by Russian forces themselves, resulting in 53 casualties, all Ukrainian soldiers like Serhii.
Demobilized since 2023, this experience has profoundly marked his life. Today, he is seeking a new path to rebuild himself.
He was one of the 11 trainees of the 2025 cohort, trained this summer by Cuisine Mode d’Emploi-S-, the school of Michelin-starred chef Thierry Marx, in partnership with the instructors from the Jules Lecesne Hotel and Catering High School in Le Havre. Th...
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3 December, 2025
A Remarkable Day for Franco-Ukrainian Cooperation
On Monday, December 1, the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs – France Diplomatie welcomed a high-level Ukrainian delegation for a day dedicated to solidarity, culture, and the future of Ukrainian children.
The first part of the day focused on the “Bring Kids Back” conference, an initiative by President Zelensky aimed at enabling the return to Ukraine of 20,000 children forcibly taken from their families by Russia. Olena Zelenska, Brigitte Macron, Jean-Noël Barrot, Andrii Sybiha, Isabelle Rome, Bernard-Henri Lévy, and Sarah El Hairistressed the urgency of action.
"When we say that our children were deported to Russia, they did not just change addresses – their lives were shattered, and their psyche was broken."
With these words, Ol...
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2 December, 2025
Last night in Paris, the opening evening of the Saison de l’Ukraine en France – Le Voyage en Ukraine took place, launching a major cultural program that will run across the country from December 2025 to March 2026.
Co-organized by the Ukrainian and French Ministries of Foreign Affairs (Міністерство закордонних справ України / MFA of Ukraine, France Diplomatie), with the support of the Ministries of Culture, the Institut français, the Ukrainian Institute in France, and the Embassy of Ukraine in France (Посольство України у Франції), the Season was inaugurated in the presence of Brigitte Macron, Olena Zelenska, Jean-Noël Barrot, Rachida Dati, Andriy Sybiha, and Anne Hidalgo, alongside numerous figures from the cultural world.
At the Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, the opening evening, titled ...
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