By: Giorgio Provinciali
Jun 17, 2025
Live from Ukraine
Sumy – All checkpoints for entering and exiting the oblast’ we’re writing from are staffed by personnel from the СБУ, Ukraine’s special services. While ЗСУ soldiers remain present, the agents managing access and determining who can pass through the barriers are now wearing balaclavas and are in contact with the central intelligence headquarters in Kyiv.
This measure allows for more direct and coordinated control over both the incoming flow and the outgoing movement, enabling the tracking of suspicious activities, especially now that evacuation has been ordered in many villages, while at least a dozen others are known to be under Russian control. The permanent and widespread presence of the СБУ – which also guards all the internal checkpoints of this oblast’ – also makes it easier to track down infiltrators, saboteurs and Russian spies, which represent a problem of no minor importance in a context of incessant and precise attacks such as those that have been plaguing Sumy for months now. Beyond the increasingly frequent ambushes by Russian ДРГ raiders – which we have miraculously survived – it is pretty clear that Moscow has managed to introduce into Ukraine a dense network of informants who take photographs, send coordinates, record movements, and in turn engage other pawns who are more or less aware of their role.
To this end, Kremlin agents have reportedly gone so far as to recruit young Ukrainian suicide bombers through social networks, offering small sums of money to minors in exchange for carrying out seemingly ordinary tasks, such as delivering a package.
The fear that the enemy could intercept signals, listen to speeches, record the movement of vehicles, or detect the presence of troops has led the Ukrainians to remove many infrared cameras they had installed to monitor traffic on the road network in Sumy. During our recent travels to the border areas, we noticed that many devices had been positioned facing the ground or turned towards blind corners. This was likely done to prevent Russian hackers from picking up their signals. Furthermore, the webcams with public IP addresses have been inactive for the past three years.
In the context of extreme espionage, the recent attacks by the Russian Federation on Ukraine are significant. These include the strike on the Chernivtsi railway station, which was followed by a larger-scale attack intended to disrupt the Carpathian railway network. Additionally, there have been two recent attacks on Ternopil’, a strike on Zhytomyr last week, and two serious attacks that occurred over the weekend in Zaporizhzhia and Poltava.
On Saturday, three Shahed drones precisely struck a humanitarian aid depot in Zaporizhzhia, causing an estimated three million euros in damages. This attack has severely impacted internally displaced persons in the country, depriving them of crucial assistance that the Beluga UA team has been providing at that hub since the war began.
On Sunday, a joint missile and drone attack severely damaged the energy and agricultural infrastructure of Kremenchuk, causing significant harm to power lines throughout the Poltava region.
In a recent intervention aimed at urging Kyiv’s partners to impose truly stringent sanctions on the Russian terrorist regime, President Volodymyr Zelenskyj of Ukraine has announced that all the country’s intelligence agencies (including the СБУ and the ГУР) have significant data proving that the Russian Federation is planning further missile attacks against Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Take a walk around Sumy to witness the disastrous results of the Kremlin’s secret activities aimed at gathering information for launching targeted and devastating attacks as described.
In the video reports we recorded for the website and YouTube channel of the Italian newspaper “La Ragione,” we captured the smoking wreckage of what were once thriving food companies – places where bread was baked, fish was processed, and food was canned.
Despite the weak response from the international community, nearly a century after the genocide of the Holodomor, Moscow continues to target Kyiv’s resilience, aiming to reduce Ukrainians to hunger, darkness, and cold. The explosions, which resonate through the air even in the center of Sumy, barely a few kilometers away, force us to deliver this article early as we seek shelter.
These events do not signal better times ahead.
密集的俄罗斯间谍网
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
2025年6月17日
来自乌克兰的报道
苏梅（Sumy）—我们现处的州的所有出入口检查站，均由乌克兰国家安全局（СБУ）的人员把守。虽然乌克兰武装部队（ЗСУ）的士兵仍然在场，但负责管理通行和决定谁可以通过的特工现在都戴着巴拉克拉法头套，并与基辅的中央情报总部保持联系。
这项措施能够对进出人流进行更直接和协调的控制，从而追踪可疑活动。尤其是在许多村庄已被下令疏散，且至少有十几个村庄已在俄罗斯控制下的情况下。乌克兰国家安全局的长期和广泛存在—其也负责守卫该州的所有内部检查站—使得追踪渗透者、破坏分子和俄罗斯间谍变得更加容易，这在苏梅几个月来一直遭受频繁和精确袭击的背景下，是一个不容小觑的问题。除了俄罗斯破坏和侦察小组日益频繁的伏击之外—我们从这些种奇迹般地幸存了下来—很明显，莫斯科已经成功地在乌克兰境内建立了一个密集的线人网络，他们拍摄照片、发送坐标、记录行动，并反过来与其他或多或少意识到自己角色的乌奸接触。
据报道，为此，克里姆林宫特工甚至通过社交网络招募了年轻的乌克兰自杀式炸弹袭击者，向他们提供少量金钱，以换取········他们执行看似普通的任务，例如递送包裹。
由于担心敌人可能会拦截信号、窃听谈话、记录车辆移动或探测到部队的存在，乌克兰人拆除了他们安装的许多红外摄像机，这些摄像头原本用于监控苏梅道路网络上的交通。在我们最近前往边境地区的行程中，我们注意到许多设备被放置成面向地面或转向盲角。这样做可能是为了防止俄罗斯黑客窃取他们的信号。此外，带有公共IP地址的网络摄像头在过去三年中一直处于非活动状态。
[图：我站在一个由网状物罩着的通道里，为了防止俄罗斯无人机击中沿途行驶的乌克兰汽车——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali]
在极端间谍活动的背景下，俄罗斯最近对乌克兰的袭击意义重大。其中包括对切尔尼夫齐铁路站的袭击，随后是一场更大规模的袭击，旨在破坏喀尔巴阡铁路网络。此外，最近还发生了两起对捷尔诺波尔的袭击，上周对日托米尔的袭击，以及周末在扎波罗热和波尔塔瓦发生的两起严重袭击。
周六，三架萨赫德无人机精确地击中了扎波罗热的一个人道主义援助仓库，造成了约三百万欧元的损失。这次袭击严重影响了那些流离失所的居民，使他们失去了自战争开始以来，白鲸UA团队一直在该中心提供的关键援助。
周日，一次导弹和无人机联合攻击严重破坏了克雷门丘克的能源和农业基础设施，对整个波尔塔瓦地区的电力线造成了重大损害。
[图：Alla和我在报道俄罗斯对苏梅民用基础设施的袭击后果——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali]
最近，为了敦促基辅的合作伙伴对俄罗斯恐怖主义政权实施真正严厉的制裁，乌克兰总统泽连斯基宣布，该国所有情报机构（包括乌克兰国家安全局和乌克兰国防部情报总局）都有重要情报证明俄罗斯联邦正计划对乌克兰能源基础设施发动进一步的导弹袭击。
[图：Alla在报道俄罗斯最近袭击苏梅民用工业的后果时。废墟仍在冒烟—版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali]
在苏梅周围走一走，亲眼见证克里姆林宫秘密活动的灾难性后果，这些活动旨在收集情报以发动正如上文描述的有针对性和毁灭性攻击行动。
在我们为意大利报纸“La Ragione”网站和YouTube频道录制的视频报道中，我们拍摄了曾经繁荣的食品公司的冒烟残骸—这些地方曾经烘烤面包、加工鱼类和罐装食品。
尽管国际社会反应乏乏，但在大饥荒种族灭绝近一个世纪后，莫斯科继续以基辅的复原力为目标，旨在使乌克兰人陷入饥饿、黑暗和寒冷之中。即使在苏梅市中心，爆炸声也在空中回荡，距离我们只有几公里，迫使我们在寻求庇护时尽早发送这篇文章。
这些事件预示着未来不会更好。
