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![EU and Ukrainian flags fly in the wind in front of the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter for the independance day of Ukraine, on August 24, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. (Source: Getty Images)]( "EU and Ukrainian flags fly in the wind in front of the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter for the independance day of Ukraine, on August 24, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. (Source: Getty Images)")
![Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (R) and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas (L) attend a joint press-conference following talks in Kyiv on October 13, 2025. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (R) and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas (L) attend a joint press-conference following talks in Kyiv on October 13, 2025. (Source: Getty Images)")
![“We Saw Nothing, We Did Nothing”: French Filmmaker Jacques Audiard on Western Europe’s Blindness to Putin]( "“We Saw Nothing, We Did Nothing”: French Filmmaker Jacques Audiard on Western Europe’s Blindness to Putin")
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![Photo of Lucile Brizard]( "Photo of Lucile Brizard")
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After one of Russia’s worst attacks on Kyiv since the start of the war, with Russian officials warning all foreign nationals and diplomats to leave the Ukrainian capital, Jacques Audiard, France’s most decorated filmmaker, arrived anyway. He sat on a park bench in the spring sun, watched a small bird for a long moment, and talked about cinema, violence, and Europe’s willful blindness.![The Mozambican-flagged oil tanker “Deyna”, suspected of belonging to the Russian shadow fleet, is seen outside the coast of Martigues near the port of Marseille-Fos on March 23, 2026, surveilled by the French Navy.]( "The Mozambican-flagged oil tanker “Deyna”, suspected of belonging to the Russian shadow fleet, is seen outside the coast of Martigues near the port of Marseille-Fos on March 23, 2026, surveilled by the French Navy.")
![EU and Ukrainian flags fly in the wind in front of the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter for the independance day of Ukraine, on August 24, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. (Source: Getty Images)]( "EU and Ukrainian flags fly in the wind in front of the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter for the independance day of Ukraine, on August 24, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. (Source: Getty Images)")
![Flags of Ukraine and the European Union fly in the wind in front of the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on August 17, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Flags of Ukraine and the European Union fly in the wind in front of the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on August 17, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. (Source: Getty Images)")
-554f0711f15a880af68b2550a739eee4.jpg "Photo of Lucile Brizard")
-793cf7c32a547f42078be6741fdc9e4b.jpg "Flags of Ukraine and the European Union fly in the wind in front of the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on August 17, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. (Source: Getty Images)")