Blood On the Snow, And On The Horizon
By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine
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Pavlohrad – For five days, the civilian population of Vyshhorod, a satellite city of Kyiv, has been without water or heating. As I write this article, I continue to receive messages from friends and acquaintances desperate for help amid isolation and freezing temperatures (in some parts of Ukraine, the mercury has dropped more than 20 degrees below zero), while the Russian Federation continues to target Ukraine’s energy sector. Two violent Russian attacks have caused identical blackouts in Nizhyn and Chernihiv, forcing the national carrier Ukrzalisnytsia to temporarily limit rail traffic.
Mandatory evacuations have been imposed in 14 border villages in that region to avoid repeating the mistake in Hrabivske, where civilians refusedevery invitation to evacuate and were later held hostage by the Russians after having overexposed and restricted Ukrainian military personnel stationed in those border areas of Sumy oblast’.
As in Vyshhorod, the main problem is that most essential services depend on electricity, and the Russians continue to bomb those power plants daily. For these reasons, local authorities are seeking alternative methods to ensure heating and water supplies for residents of urban areas far from the front, while having no options other than evacuating areas the Russians are bombarding with FPV drones and mortar fire. Due to the bombing, as many as 470 residential buildings connected to the Kherson thermal power plant have been cut off.
Despite Vladimir Putin’s cynical statements – including telling Donald Trump that he wants to see Ukraine «win» and is ready to help it by providing low-cost Russian electricity – the Russians continue to target Ukrainian thermal power plants, making it impossible for technicians to repair them.
In case the Western world has forgotten, this is what Братская помощь (Russian: ‘fraternal aid’) is all about. Destroy, repress, leave to the cold, and starve to the point of breaking even the most resilient will, only to then lead people to beg for help from the same hand that killed, plundered, and annihilated.
With that term, Moscow justified direct military interventions in the Warsaw Pact countries during the Soviet era, as in Budapest in 1956 and Prague in 1968.
It should be remembered.
Especially to Italians, since the Conte government agreed in 2020 to send dubious Russian medical teams and supplies to Italian soil as part of an operation that Moscow called precisely that: «fraternal aid», guaranteeing them access to Italian healthcare and IT infrastructure.
The Kherson example is emblematic: on December 3rd, the Russian Armed Forces carried out a carpet bombing of the city’s largest thermal power plant. Three days later, they fired another hundred heavy artillery shells at the same facility, and on December 17th, they again bombarded it with drones and other missiles, also targeting Ukrainian rapid-response and rescue teams. Naftogaz offered stoves and alternative heating methods, and the Russians targeted those as well, even though they were providing humanitarian aid.
Through their spokesman in Washington, Donald Trump, top Russian officials have made it known that Moscow is willing to «help» the very Ukrainians from whom it has deprived everything, including humanitarian aid.
Although 45 settlements along the Kherson coast remain cold and freezing, the residents’ determination has remained undiminished, prompting top Ukrainian technicians to develop alternative solutions, the details of which have not been disclosed for security reasons.
Despite Donald Trump’s continued assertion of faith in the good intentions of this century’s worst dictator, the Russians have continued to launch devastating attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure.
A total of 608 attacks targeted 25 settlements in Zaporizhia alone. Further east, they have overwhelmed the Dnipropetrovsk region, including the Nikopol’ and Pavlohrad areas, where I am writing. The blood of Ukrainian civilians now permeates the snow in so many villages along the road to Pokrovsk that further comment is superfluous. In Sumy Oblast’, the Russians even attacked a car carrying bread. In Odesa, two civilian ships, “Emmakris III” and “Captain Karam”, were hit as they entered the port to load grain.
This scenario is reflected in the statements of European leaders who, after yet another round of ‘consultations’, claimed yesterday that «peace is on the horizon».
It’s unclear what horizon they’re looking at, given that the Baltic states are preparing to blow up the bridges on the border with Russia and Belarus.
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雪上的血，和地平线上的希望
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
翻译：旺财球球
乌克兰前线报道
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帕夫洛赫拉德——在基辅的卫星城市维什霍罗德，居民已断水断暖五天。当我撰写本文时，我不断收到朋友和熟人发来的求助信息，他们在被隔绝中煎熬，忍受着严寒 ——在乌克兰的某些地方，温度已经降到零下20多度，而俄罗斯联邦还在不断袭击乌克兰的能源部门。俄军两次猛烈的攻击导致了尼任和切尔尼戈夫停电，迫使国家铁路公司乌克兰铁路暂时限制了铁路交通。
在该地区的14个边境村庄已实施了强制撤离，以避免重蹈哈拉比夫斯克的错误，在那里，平民拒绝了所有撤离请求，后来被俄罗斯人劫持扣为人质，同时导致驻扎在苏梅州边境地区的乌克兰军人的行动遭到过度暴露和限制
（图：今天的库皮扬斯克，经历了俄罗斯“和平”后的景象——照片由乌克兰武装部队提供）
如维什霍罗德一样，主要问题在于大多数基本服务依赖于电力，而俄罗斯人每天仍在轰炸这些发电厂。基于这些原因，当地政府正在寻找替代方法以确保远离前线的城市居民的供暖和供水，而别无选择，只能撤离遭俄方用FPV无人机和迫击炮轰炸的地区。由于轰炸，赫尔松热电厂相连的多达470座住宅楼已被切断电力供应。
尽管弗拉基米尔·普京发表了惊世申明——包括告诉唐纳德·川普他希望看到乌克兰“获胜”，并准备通过提供低成本的俄罗斯电力来帮助乌克兰——但俄罗斯人仍继续袭击乌克兰的热电厂，导致技术人员无法修复这些设施。
（图：我站在一处被俄罗斯联邦摧毁的乌克兰民用基础设施旁——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
如果西方世界已经忘记了，这就是Братская помощь（俄语：’兄弟援助‘）的真谛。摧毁、压制、让人们置身寒冷、让人挨饿，甚至摧毁最坚韧的意志，只是为了让人向那只曾杀戮、掠夺和灭绝的手乞求帮助。
正是在这个术语的幌子下，莫斯科为在苏联时代对华沙条约国家的直接军事干预辩护，例如1956年的布达佩斯和1968年的布拉格一样。
这一点应该被铭记。
尤其是对意大利人而言，因为孔特政府在2020年同意向意大利派遣可疑的俄罗斯医疗队和物资，作为莫斯科称之为“兄弟援助”的一部分，保证他们能进入意大利的医疗和IT基础设施。
（图：另一个被俄罗斯联邦摧毁的乌克兰民用基础设施 ——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
赫尔松的例子是典型的：12月3日，俄罗斯武装部队对该市最大的热电厂进行了地毯式轰炸。三天后，他们又对同一设施发射了一百多枚重型炮弹，12月17日，他们再次用无人机和其他导弹轰炸该设施，同时也袭击乌克兰的快速反应和救援队。纳夫托加兹国油公司提供了炉具和替代供暖方法，而俄罗斯人也将这些作为目标进行了攻击，尽管这些是人道主义援助。
通过他们在华盛顿的发言人唐纳德·川普，俄罗斯高级官员表示，莫斯科愿意“帮助”那些被它自己剥夺了一切，包括人道主义援助，的乌克兰人。
尽管赫尔松沿岸的45个定居点依然寒冷刺骨，但居民们的决心依然坚定，这促使乌克兰顶级技术人员开发替代解决方案，具体细节出于安全原因予披露。
尽管唐纳德·川普持续宣称对这世纪最恶劣独裁者的善意充满信心，俄罗斯人却继续对乌克兰的民用基础设施发动毁灭性攻击。
仅在扎波罗热，针对25个居民定居点的攻击总数就达608次。进一步向东，他们对第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克地区的攻击愈发猛烈，包括我所在的尼科波尔和帕夫洛赫拉德地区。乌克兰平民的鲜血浸透了通往波克罗夫斯克道路上的许多村庄的积雪中，进一步的评论已显得多余。在苏梅州，俄罗斯甚至攻击了一辆载着面包的汽车。在敖德萨，两艘民用船只“Emmakris III”和“Captain Karam”在驶入港口装载粮食时遭到袭击。
这一情况在欧洲领导人的声明中有所体现，他们在又一次“磋商”后，昨天宣称“和平即将来临”。
鉴于波罗的海国家正准备炸毁与俄罗斯和白俄罗斯的边境桥梁，我们不能不对他们所看到的“地平线”感到困惑。
（图：经历了“俄罗斯和平”后，目前的库皮扬斯克——照片由乌克兰武装部队提供 ）
