“Ukraine is the first target, the neighboring countries” are the second, assures Bernard-Henri Lévy

How far will this war go, can it go? A Russian bombardment killed at least 18 people in a shopping center in Ukraine, according to relief, provoking strong condemnation from the G7 countries gathered in Germany, who denounced a “war crime”. For Bernard-Henri Lévy, philosopher and essayist, guest of Europe Matin on Tuesday, “we must stop Poutine, we must stop him”.

A Russian strike also killed eight civilians on Monday at a water distribution point in the east, according to kyiv, which called on the G7 to end the war. It is “one of the most shameless terrorist acts in European history”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said of the bombing of this shopping center in Kremenchuk, a city 330 km southeast of kyiv, and more than 200 km from the front.

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“We must obviously avoid falling into direct and total war, but we must help the Ukrainians to win this war, it is the only honorable and intelligent way out of this war”, he specified before adding that “the Ukrainians must be helped to defeat Putin”.

In his documentary titled Why Ukrainebroadcast Tuesday evening on the channel art, Bernard-Henri Lévy recounts the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “There are not two options, there is only one, that Putin backs down, capitulates. Their war is our war. Their defeat would be our defeat. Ukraine cannot lose but it must be help win,” he says in his documentary.

For the philosopher, the objective of Europeans is no longer to ease tensions but now to make Vladimir Putin capitulate. “Ukraine is the first target and then the second curtain target is the countries bordering Ukraine, and still behind is the destabilization of Europe by all means available to the dictatorship that reigns in the Kremlin” , advanced Bernard-Henri Lévy on Europe 1.