Special Envoy in Odessa
A young girl with the face of the Black Sea rolls on the sand in a cart. Her mother, perched on a lookout tower once used to monitor swimmers, photographs her from a distance. In the background, at the foot of the concrete steps leading down to the beach, is a sign with a skull on a bright red background; “Careful, my.” Irina, wearing a large white hat, claims she defied the ban without any premeditation. “I am taking my daughter there for the first time since the beginning of the war, because I was told that the beaches are closed. But I saw that there were people, so I let him go. I’m not worried, he’s not going too far.”he said with a slightly strained smile.
About fifteen swimmers walk along this stretch of sand wedged between two restaurant terraces in the Arcadia district, the epicenter of nightlife and popular tourism. Most of them stay on the concrete shore. Others have extended their…
Source: Le Figaro
