This first for 2024 is the 23rd since the beginning of the war in Ukraine... The next day is the strategy that one is forced to consider after a sudden and unexpected change in one’s plans - nothing happened as one had imagined. Forced to an intense and salutary brainstorming after a major upheaval, several options are possible. We can continue to play a sterile game, a forward flight without rhyme or reason, the Russian solution. We can take the tangent, an uncertain bet that can be an alternative. Above all, one can suggest a trying experience into a future in line with one’s hopes, the Ukrainian case. In a first point, we will question the day before which democracies are sometimes confronted to change. In the following points, we will discuss the Russian and Ukrainian situations whose states of mind are very different. At the beginning of a New Year that celebrates the ten years of the Maidan Revolution (Kiev, February 2014), we will consider a brighter future for Ukraine and Europe - the next day and the following days with glimmers of hope.

1-The day before
2-In Russia, a day after worse than the day before
3-In Ukraine, better days
4-The day after and the following days