By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine
Bilozerske – The Ukrainian Armed Forces have successfully completed a significant encirclement of Russian ones near the salient to the northwest of Myrnohrad, which would have otherwise enabled them to advance into the Donbas region of Ukraine. Doing so, they effectively beheaded what appeared to be a stylized rabbit figure on military maps, which various think tanks had used to track Russian advances.
The remaining occupants of the four pockets are laying down their weapons and surrendering to the Ukrainians, while those further back are retreating beyond Koptevo, which is also under fire from Ukrainian troops advancing there from Volodymyrivka.
For Moscow, this is a historic defeat, as in the first ten days of September, the Ukrainians regained ten times more territory than the Russians had captured in that area during the entire month of August.
The failed summer offensive cost the Russian Federation over 100,000 men. At least 35% of the assaults were concentrated on the Pokrovsk front, resulting in just 5 square kilometers of scorched earth gained over that month.
By first blocking the enemy at Kucheriv Yar, then between Nykanorivka and Maiak, the latter and Novotoretske, and then from there rejoining the contingent advancing from Razine, the Ukrainians thwarted the Russian plan to siege Pokrovsk, greatly easing pressure on nearby Myrnohrad as well.
The situation on the northern front is hardly any better for the Russians, who have just lost an entire elite brigade, a command post, and the general who led it between the Sumy and Kursk oblasts.
Having destroyed some BUK and TOR launchers that the Russians had deployed to protect the areas they had managed to capture, the Ukrainians have now struck, one after another, all the major strongholds from which they were held in check. Tyotkino – which the mayor of Bilopillia mentioned in a video published on the YouTube channel and website of the Italian newspaper “La Ragione”, telling Alla Perdei and me how the Russians massacred his fellow citizens from there – is now almost completely buried under rubble.
With waves of Hammer and J-DAM bombs, the Ukrainian air force is also turning that front on its head.
Russia is withdrawing its battered troops from the areas it had attacked and repositioning its launchers to the more rearward sides of regions like Kursk, Bryansk, and Bilhorod because Ukraine holds air superiority on the northern front.
In the southern one, a Russian summer offensive bathed in the blood of 100,000 of its men has completely failed, but virtually no trace of this is in any Italian newspaper.
Two weeks ago, almost all the headlines were full-page showing that Putin’s army had broken through the Ukrainian front just because some Russian motorcycle-borne kamikaze raiders and saboteurs had managed to occupy a few farmhouses, killing the civilians living there. Today, all anyone writes about is the Russian incursion into Poland, mostly forgetting that Europe and NATO should draw important conclusions from there too.
As Nona Mikhelidze pointed out yesterday in “Il Foglio,” the Ukrainian army is most likely the best trained and most technically ready in the Old Continent, and it’s in the Atlantic Alliance’s best interest to unite it to defend Europe.
Perhaps even more so than the reverse.
Suffice it to say that, using F-35s and missiles costing millions of euros each, NATO countries together shot down just 21% of the 19 Russian drones that attacked Poland (five of which were aimed directly at the NATO base in Rzeszów), while Ukraine alone neutralized 90% of the 458 launchers, including drones and other missiles of various types, that the Russian Federation had launched against its cities that same night.
If the Russian objective was to break through the Ukrainian front, it can be said that it failed miserably. However, the same cannot be done to test the defenses of an Alliance that still has much to learn from Kyiv, or to test the resilience of the war’s media front – the only one on which Moscow continues to advance.
俄軍被圍
烏克蘭前線報導
作者:Giorgio Provinciali
2025年9月13日
Bilozerske—烏克蘭武裝部隊成功地在 Myrnohrad 西北部的突出部分附近的俄軍完成了一次的重要的包圍。本來,俄軍可以藉此向烏克蘭頓巴斯地區推進。通過這次包圍,烏軍有效地「斬首」了軍事地圖上一個風格化的兔子形象,許多智庫曾用這個兔子形象來追蹤俄軍的進展。
四個包圍圈中殘餘的俄軍正在放下武器,向烏克蘭軍隊投降。而更遠處的俄軍正在撤退到科普特沃之外,那裡也受到從弗拉基米羅夫卡推進的烏克蘭軍隊的炮火襲擊。
對於莫斯科來說,這是一次歷史性的失敗。因為在九月的頭十天,烏克蘭軍隊收復的領土,比俄軍在整個八月在該地區佔領的還要多十倍。
夏季攻勢失敗,俄羅斯聯邦損失了超過 10 萬士兵。至少有 35% 的襲擊集中在波克羅夫斯克前線,但整個八月俄軍只獲得了5平方公里的焦土。
烏克蘭軍隊首先在庫切里夫亞爾阻止了敵人,然后在尼卡諾里夫卡和馬亞克之間,之後又在後者和新托列茨克之間,並從那裡與從拉濟涅推進的特遣隊重新會合,從而挫敗了俄軍圍攻波克羅夫斯克的計劃,大大緩解了附近米爾諾赫拉德的壓力。
對俄軍來說,北部戰線的局勢也好不到哪裡去,他們剛剛在蘇梅和庫爾斯克州之間失去了一個精銳旅、一個指揮所以及指揮該旅的將軍。
在摧毀了一些俄羅斯部署用於保護其佔領地區的「山毛櫸」(BUK) 和「道爾」(TOR) 導彈發射系統後,烏軍現在一個接一個地打擊了俄軍的所有主要據點。
Tyotkino—比洛皮利亞市長在意大利報紙“La Ragione”的 YouTube 頻道和網站上發布的一段視頻中提到過這個地方。他告訴 Alla Perdei 和我,俄羅斯人是如何在那裡屠殺他的同胞的。現在,季奧特基諾幾乎完全被埋在廢墟之下。
現在烏克蘭空軍正以大量的“鐵鎚”(Hammer) 和“傑達姆”(J-DAM) 炸彈,扭轉著那條戰線的局勢。
俄羅斯正在從其攻擊過的地區撤出其疲憊的部隊,並將其導彈發射器重新部署到庫爾斯克、布良斯克和別爾哥羅德等地區更靠後的位置,因為烏克蘭控制著北部前線的制空權。
在南部戰線上,俄羅斯夏季攻勢以 10 萬士兵的鮮血為代價徹底失敗了,但在任何意大利報紙上都幾乎找不到任何相關報導。
兩週前,幾乎所有(意大利報紙的)頭條新聞都以整版篇幅報導說,普京的軍隊突破了烏克蘭防線,僅僅因為一些俄羅斯摩托車神風特攻隊和破壞分子設法佔領了幾座農舍,殺害了住在裡面面的平民。今天,每個人都在報導俄羅斯入侵波蘭,卻大多忘記了歐洲和北約也應該從中得出重要的結論。
正如諾娜·米赫利澤昨天在“Il Foglio”報上指出的那樣,烏克蘭軍隊很可能是舊大陸最訓練有素、技術裝備最好的軍隊,和(烏克蘭)聯合起來保衛歐洲符合大西洋聯盟的最大利益。
甚至可能比反過來更是如此。
只要想想,北約國家使用 F-35 戰鬥機和價值數百萬歐元的導彈,總共只擊落了襲擊波蘭的 19 架俄羅斯無人機中的 21%(其中 5 架直接瞄準了位於熱舒夫的北約基地),而烏克蘭獨自就摧毀了俄羅斯聯邦當晚向其城市發射的 458 個飛行器(包括無人機和其他各種導彈)中的90%。
如果俄羅斯的目標是突破烏克蘭防線,那可以說它已經慘敗。然而,俄羅斯對仍然需要向基輔學習的北約的防禦能力的試探,或對媒體前線韌性的測試,卻並不能說已經失敗—莫斯科仍在這些戰線上有所斬獲。