Compromised Leaders Still Ask Ukrainians For A Compromise
By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine
Zaporizhzhia — On February 15, 2022, then-US President Joe Biden declaredhimself «ready to negotiate written agreements» with Vladimir Putin after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met with the Russian dictator to offer «compromises» previously obtained from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The day before, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had assured that Russian troops were already partially withdrawing from the western border with Ukraine. On February 16, the Russian Ministry of Defense published images of an alleged «Russian withdrawal from Crimea», while both Zelensky and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated the opposite: «Moscow is not withdrawing, it is simply bringing troops closer, and they have increased, not decreased». On February 17, Moscow declared itself «ready to engage in serious dialogue», calling the «military scenarios» evoked by Washington «dangerous and deplorable» and rejecting as «unfounded» the accusations from the US and its European allies that it was seeking a pretext to invade Ukraine.
That intense day concluded with a speech at the UN by then-U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was more explicit: «Moscow challenges the international order and will attack Ukraine under the false pretext of a Russian genocide in Donbas».
Exactly four years later, Vladimir Putin, through his Deputy Foreign Minister addressed the United Nations calling for its governance of Ukraine «after the completion of the special military operation» he unleashed. Washington is clearly on his side, so much so that it wants to exclude its (former) European allies from what they insist on calling «peace negotiations». The international order, as we have understood it for 80 years, no longer exists. As European Commission Vice President Kaja Kallas observed, it is precisely at the table of those alleged negotiations that Moscow achieves more than it ever did on the battlefield.
In January, the Russians occupied 245 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory. This figure is almost half that of December and January last year, and the trend is steadily declining: for comparison, last week they occupied 33 square kilometers of rubble, while the week before, 60.
Having set foot in Pokrovsk — which is 50 kilometers from where they were 12 years ago and still outside the Donbas fortress belt — Russian soldiers were ordered to kill all remaining civilians, following a pattern already seen in Bucha, Izium, Trostianets’, and other martyred cities of Ukraine. The same explicit instructions were given in Zelenyj Haj and Myrnohrad, where Moscow is even parachuting in its best units, giving them carte blanche to search every house for the Ukrainian military personnel who, along with civilians, are putting up fierce resistance.
The directive to leave no one alive has been issued from above since 2022, underscoring Moscow’s «readiness to engage in serious dialogue». This constant is repeatedly evident in the relentless targeting of the Ukrainian civilian population, which, despite the many world leaders who have come and gone over nearly five years, no one has managed to stop through so-called ‘diplomacy’.
Between Friday and Saturday, the Russian air force again bombed the town of Kramatorsk, killing four civilians. Around noon on Sunday, it struck a children’s hospital in Sumy, continuing to launch drones at half-hourly intervals against the children and medical personnel inside. On Monday, it again attacked a residential center in Kramatorsk, killing two 19-year-olds and their 8-year-old brother, who were staying with their mother and grandmother at home. It dropped a glide bomb on a house, destroying an entire family and killing a 44-year-old father and his 23-year-old son, while seriously injuring their 11-year-old brother, 16-year-old sister, and 42-year-old mother. In the Kharkiv region, another Russian attack on Monday killed two-year-old twins and their one-year-old sister, leaving their pregnant mother critically ill. Another attack destroyed the Novhorod-Siverskyj district administration building, and another struck the maternity clinic in the city from which I am reporting for this article, injuring mothers and newborns.
This is just the well-known — and certainly incomplete — list of horrors perpetrated by the Russians over the past weekend alone.
In the more than 1,450 days since, the Russian Federation has carried out approximately 2,000 documented attacks on Ukraine’s healthcare system, over 3,700 on its schools, and nearly 700 on religious institutions. It has left no energy infrastructure intact, leaving the Ukrainian population in freezing cold, without electricity, and often without water. It has illegally deported at least 19,000 minors.
Yesterday alone, here in Zaporizhzhia, the Russian occupiers launched 668 attacks on 32 inhabited settlements. In Sumy, they bombed 33. Not far from here, in Nikopol’, they flew FPV drones 10 times in search of civilian targets.
The American delegation, comprising Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Finance Minister Scott Bessent, Jared Kushner, and White House Senior Advisor Josh Groenbau, described the meeting with the Russian delegation as «productive and constructive» and «enthusiastic». Witkoff even wrote that «Russia is working to ensure peace in Ukraine».
In response to Donald Trump’s umpteenth demand for «compromises», Zelensky said Ukraine has already made many, and the biggest of all is that Putin and his associates are not in prison.
A week from now will mark the fourth anniversary of the start of a full-scale nightmare Ukraine has endured for 12 years.
As it becomes increasingly clear that those who continue to use that vile refrain are ‘compromised’, the most important intelligence sources are converging on the fact that the Russian Federation is planning a new full-scale attack on Ukraine.
The ongoing blackouts severely damaged our house’s heating system in Western Ukraine while we were in the Donbas.
Without electricity, the pump couldn’t circulate the liquid while the fire was lit. As a result, the system caught fire, and the whole house was at risk of burning. Fortunately, it did not, but the whole system needs to be changed, and the house needs to be restored. Tubes are all bent, walls are blackened by haze, and the heating system doesn’t work, requiring an entirely new system.
We are doing our best since Alla’s parents live there, but there’s still a lot to work on here, too, as the people around us are in no better situation.
We’re renewing our fundraising campaign and thanking everyone who joins us in helping us restore what Russia is destroying. Even a small donation helps. We’ll keep you updated on developments.
Thank you all, dear friends
被妥协的领导人仍在要求乌克兰人妥协
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
翻译：旺财球球
乌克兰前线报道
扎波罗热 — 2022年2月15日，当时的美国总统乔·拜登在德国总理奥拉夫·朔尔茨会见俄罗斯独裁者并提出从乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基处获得的“妥协”后，宣称自己“已准备好就书面协议与弗拉基米尔·普京进行谈判”。前一天，俄罗斯外长谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫曾保证俄罗斯部队已部分从与乌克兰接壤的西部边境撤出。2月16日，俄罗斯国防部发布了所谓“从克里米亚撤军”的影像，而泽连斯基与北约秘书长延斯·斯托尔滕贝格则表示相反：“莫斯科并未撤军，而是在行近，而且兵力是增加了，不是减少了。”2月17日，莫斯科宣布“准备进行严肃对话”，称华盛顿所提出的“军事情形”是“危险且可悲的”，并驳斥美欧盟友指控其借口入侵乌克兰的说法为“毫无根据”。
那紧张的一天以时任美国国务卿安东尼·布林肯在联合国的演讲画上句号，他更为直白地表示：“莫斯科挑战国际秩序，并将以顿巴斯发生俄罗斯种族灭绝为虚假借口对乌克兰发动进攻。”
整整四年后，弗拉基米尔·普京通过其副外长向联合国发表讲话，呼吁在他发动的“特别军事行动”结束后对乌克兰进行治理。华盛顿显然站在他一边，甚至希望将其（曾经的）欧洲盟友排除在他们坚持称之为“和平谈判”的进程之外。我们过去80年所理解的国际秩序已不复存在。正如欧盟委员会副主席卡娅·卡拉斯所指出的，恰恰是在那些所谓谈判的桌上，莫斯科得到的比它在战场上得到的更多。
今年1月，俄军占领了245平方公里的乌克兰领土。这个数字几乎是去年十二月和一月的一半，且呈稳步下降趋势：相比之下，上周他们占领了33平方公里的废墟，而前一周为60平方公里。
（图片来源：TopLeadEU）
俄罗斯士兵踏入波克罗夫斯克后——距他们12年前所在之地仅50公里，且仍位于顿巴斯堡垒带之外——接到命令屠杀所有剩余平民，这种模式此前已在布查、伊久姆、特罗斯蒂亚涅茨等乌克兰受难城市中出现过。在泽列尼伊·哈伊和米尔诺赫拉德俄军也下达了同样明确的指令，莫斯科甚至空降其精锐部队，给予他们对每户人家进行全面搜查之“全权”许可，以寻找与平民一道顽强抵抗的乌克兰军人。
自2022年以来，上层已下达“不留活口”的指令，凸显莫斯科“准备进行严肃对话”的真相。而这一常态通过对乌克兰平民的持续无情打击不断显现，尽管近五年间许多世界领导人来来去去，但没有人能通过所谓“外交”阻止这种暴行。
周五至周六间，俄空军再次轰炸了克拉马托尔斯克镇，造成四名平民死亡。周日午间，他们袭击了苏梅的一家儿童医院，继续以半小时一次的频率发射无人机，对医院内的儿童和医护人员进行攻击。周一，他们再次袭击克拉马托尔斯克的一个居民中心，导致两名19岁的青年和他们的8岁弟弟遇难，三人当时与母亲和祖母同住在家中。俄军向一栋房屋投下一枚滑翔炸弹，摧毁了整个家庭，导致一名44岁父亲和其23岁儿子死亡，另有11岁兄弟、16岁姐姐和42岁母亲重伤。在哈尔科夫地区，周一的另一轮袭击导致两岁双胞胎和他们的一岁妹妹死亡，孕母重伤危殆。另一次袭击摧毁了诺夫霍罗德-西维尔斯基区行政大楼，另一枚则打中了我为本文报道的那座城市的产科诊所，造成产妇和新生儿受伤。
以上仅是众所周知且肯定不完整的清单，列举的仅为俄军上周末单独实施的暴行。
在此后的1,450多天里，俄罗斯联邦对乌克兰医疗系统的已记录攻击约有2,000起，对学校的攻击超过3,700起，近700起针对宗教场所。没有一处能源基础设施幸免，导致乌克兰民众在严寒中失去供电，常常连水也断供。至少有19,000名未成年人被非法驱逐。
仅昨天，在扎波罗热，俄占领军对32个有人居住的定居点发动了668次攻击。在苏梅，他们轰炸了33次。在此不远的尼科波尔，他们使用FPV无人机10次，搜索民用目标。
（图：我与Alla在乌克兰扎波罗热报道为此文做报道——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（图片来源：X 上SEPeaceMissions ）
美方代表团由特使史蒂夫·威特科夫、财政部长斯科特·贝森特、贾里德·库什纳和白宫高级顾问乔什·格伦鲍组成，他们称与俄方代表团的会面“富有成效且具有建设性”，并表示“热情洋溢”。威特科夫甚至写道，“俄罗斯正在致力于确保乌克兰的和平”。
对唐纳德·川普再次提出的“妥协”要求，泽连斯基回应说乌克兰已经做出了许多妥协，而最大的一项妥协则是普京及其同伙仍然没有坐牢。
再过一周，将是乌克兰经历的这一场长达12年的全面噩梦爆发的四周年。
随着越来越清楚地看到那些仍在使用可憎陈词滥调的人已被“妥协”，最关键的情报来源趋向一致：俄罗斯联邦正在策划对乌克兰的新一轮全面进攻。
（图：我，在写这篇文章之前，在乌克兰扎波罗热的一个庇护所附近——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
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持续的停电严重损坏了我们在乌克兰西部的家中的供暖系统，而我们当时就在顿巴斯。
没有电，点着的炉火无法通过水泵循环热水。结果，系统起火，整个房子面临着烧毁的风险。幸而未被烧毁，但整个系统需要更换，房子也需要修复。管道都是歪的，墙壁被烟雾熏黑，供暖系统无法正常工作，需要彻底更换。
我们正在尽最大努力，因为Alla的父母住在那里，但这里还有许多工作要做，周围的人处境也好不到哪儿去。
我们正在重启筹款活动，感谢每一位支持我们修复被俄罗斯摧毁一切的朋友。即使是小额捐款也有帮助。我们会及时更新进展。
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