About

Pierre Alonso, born in 1985, is a French reporter based in Kyiv.

He began working as a local correspondent in 2007 while studying international relations at Sciences Po in Lille, in northern France. As part of his studies, he spent a year in Tehran, where he learned Persian and witnessed the uprising that followed the presidential election of June 2009.

After graduating with a specialisation in peace building and conflict analysis in 2011, he spent two years covering cybersecurity and national security for the French website OWNI.fr, followed by two years as a freelance journalist in Paris (2013–2015).

In 2015, he joined the national daily Libération, where he covered ISIS terrorist attacks in France and Belgium, while also focusing on the threats to civil liberties posed by counter-terrorism legislation.

From 2017, he served as Libération’s defence correspondent and reporter at the international desk, covering stories primarily from Iran and the Sahel region, as well as across Europe (Malta, Northern Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, among others).

A few days after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he flew to Odesa and began extensive coverage of the war for Libération. After three assignments in Ukraine, he decided to relocate to Kyiv, where he has been based as a freelancer since December 2022. He is available for assignments.

Pierre is a writer (mostly in French), a photographer, and an occasional contributor to TV and radio (Radio Canada, RTS, among others).

A native French speaker, he is fluent in English, has an intermediate level of Persian, and is a beginner in Ukrainian.

He is the author of the newsletter La Déflagration, available on Substack.