This edition of the France 2 newscast will be based on the work of around fifty people working for the public service in Ukraine. This weekend, Russian shelling took place forty kilometers from Lviv.
Anne-Sophie Lapix will present the 20H de France 2 Monday live from Lviv, where the journalist and her team realized “since Friday several reports with the authorities and the populationfrom the Ukrainian city, announced the information management of France Télévisions to AFP.
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In total, around ten people were dispatched at the end of the week to Lviv, in western Ukraine and near the Polish border, where many displaced people have lived since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24. A trip that remained confidential until Monday morning for security reasons, which is based on the work of teams already on site, around fifty people working for the public service in Ukraine and in neighboring countries, said France Télé.
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Bombings in Western Ukraine
This is not the first time that France 2 has relocated its news: Anne-Sophie Lapix, for example, presented 8 p.m. from New York on November 3, 2020 on the occasion of the American presidential election, while an edition of 13H by Julian Bugier was produced from Sens (Yonne) last month. But Monday’s mission is much more dangerous: this weekend, Russian bombardments hit the western part of Ukraine, hitherto spared. They struck in the night from Saturday to Sunday the military base of Yavoriv, about forty kilometers from Lviv, and about twenty kilometers from Poland, a member country of the Atlantic Alliance and the European Union. A base where some of the military aid delivered by the West to Ukraine arrives. And, on Sunday, an American journalist was killed and another wounded by bullets in Irpin, in the northwestern suburbs of kyiv, the scene of heavy fighting for several days. Lviv has also been hosting since Saturday a “press freedom centercreated by the NGO Reporters Without Borders to provide a workplace and protection for journalists covering the conflict.
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