1. Neither friends nor enemies

This first part goes to the roots of the conflict, in 2014, tracing the fall of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, the accession to power of Petro Poroshenko and the way Moscow stoked divisions to annex Crimea and push Donbass to separatism. Episode also returns to the election, five years later, of Volodymyr Zelensky, faced with the blackmail of Donald Trump, who told him to provide elements incriminating Joe Biden's son, who worked in Ukraine as a consultant, in exchange for maintaining American aid.