“I had been warning for a long time that the situation in the Donbass was explosive” Anne-Laure Bonnel

“When I’m in Ukraine, they take me for a Western agent. When I am in the West, they take me for an agent from the East”. For this “Essential Interview”, we are pleased to welcome Anne-Laure Bonnel, investigative journalist and war reporter. Unknown to the general public, his name entered the heart of international news following a remarkable passage on CNews on 1^is last March, during which the journalist vigorously denounced “crimes against humanity” committed by Ukrainians in the Donbass, referring in particular to 13,000 deaths since 2014 in the region. Veiled facts in the media space mainstream which had earned him the label of “pro-Putin”. On our set, Anne-Laure Bonnel looks back on her journalistic career, her work as a documentary filmmaker, and the media coverage of the Ukrainian conflict in France, which leaves little room for nuance. “We cannot understand February 24, 2022 without going back at least to a fairly close past”recalls the journalist, who deplores the lack of debate within the current journalistic profession.