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Added on the 03/01/2017 20:28:09 - Copyright : AFP EN
Just days away from the grim one-year anniversary of Russia's war on Ukraine, FRANCE 24 is joined by Architect and Urban Planner Martin Duplantier to address post-war reconstruction and what has already been permanently destroyed.
Over the last year, over 9.5 million Ukrainians came to Poland. Nearly 8 million of them have returned. They were mainly women and children.
At fifteen private clinics across Ukraine, a new donor-funded project sets out to treat civilians disfigured by severe scars and burns as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
During the long months of Russian occupation in Izyum, up to sixty people lived in Andriy Pleshan's cellar. Izyum, a town in eastern Ukraine, and home to 45,000 inhabitants before the war, was retaken by Ukrainian forces in mid-September, and has lived in relative peace since, unlike other liberated towns closer to the front line.
Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed Russia would fulfil all the goals of its military campaign in Ukraine as he heralded Russian soldiers and defence chiefs as "heroes" in a speech in Moscow. However, he also seemed to acknowledge that not all is going according to plan for Russia's military in Ukraine, saying the Ministry of Defence needed to take on board lessons that had been learnt during the invasion.