TESTIMONY – Ulysse is 21 years old, he is Franco-Belgian. Left Monday, February 28 to join the Foreign Legion announced by President Zelensky, he delivers to the Figaro his daily life in Ukraine.
In the second episode of his war diary, Ulysses, a 21-year-old architecture student, recounted his first steps in the Foreign Legion, the knife attack courses and the memorable encounters with the soldiers. Now at the front, in kyiv, he bears witness to the fear and the bombardments.
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“I narrowly escaped death. The Yaroviv base, on the Polish border, was bombed last night a few hours after we left it. Balance sheet: 35 dead, at least, including foreign volunteers. With my Australian friend, we had finished a little earlier in the day the blockhouses at the entrance to Lviv that we had been building for several days. We went to the base to find out how to be useful. We waited a few hours and left empty-handed. We met a Frenchman who was going on a mission with a battalion. “Go to Kyivhe advised us. They are looking for medics for the front.” They gave us contacts there, and…
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