The suffering of Ukrainians and the martyrdom of Afghan women will be at the heart of the 29th edition of the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents, which kicks off on Monday with a series of exhibitions and screenings before the award ceremony the following Saturday. Out of competition, Thomas Dworzak will participate on Wednesday with other journalists in an evening debate which proposes to “illuminate the present” in Ukraine by returning to the two Russian wars in Chechnya (1994-1996 and 1999-2000).
“And if Vladimir Putin, by launching the operation against Ukraine in February 2022, had wanted to repeat the Grozny war? The speeches and the methods are close”, ask the organizers. Ukraine will also be the subject of two exhibitions, one of which will present from Monday “the essential work of the only two journalists to have remained in Mariupol during the shelling of the Russian army”, underline the organizers.