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Ukraine/Russia: can the war spread?

Audio 29:30

Men of the Ukrainian National Guard take position in the center of Kiev, following the military operation launched by the Russian army, February 25, 2022. © REUTERS / Gleb Garanich

By: Philippe Lecaplain

1 min

On the evening of the second day of war in Ukraine, it will be a question of the military aspect of this invasion launched by Vladimir Putin to support his great plan to reform the great Russia, that of before the end of the USSR, even that of the Tsar.

Can this war degenerate by spreading to the rest of Europe?

Does it foreshadow a new kind of conflict, of "high intensity" as military strategists say?

Worse, should we fear a world or even nuclear war?

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With : 

Peer de Jong

, vice president of

Themiis

, a company that does training for armies  

Michel Foucher

, geographer, diplomat, author of 

Surveying the world, memoir of a political geographer

(Robert Laffont) 

Igor Delanoë

, Deputy Director of the Franco-Russian Observatory.

Author from

Russia, the challenges of returning to the Middle East

(Editions l'Inventaire, collection "Carnets de l'Observatoire")

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