Freed By Fire: In Donbas, Putin’s “Liberated” People Are Dying — Drinking Water From Puddles
By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine
Kramatorsk — They wanted to believe it. While new Russian and North Korean soldiers paraded through Moscow, decked out with hammer-and-sickle symbols and “Z”s made of St. George’s ribbon, the civilians of Donbas, whom Vladimir Putin claims he wants to “liberate”, actually tried to escape.
From the Russians.
Rivers of cars and buses moved from the areas of Donetsk Oblast’ hardest hit by the occupiers’ fury toward the anti-drone corridors, attempting to take on board as many civilians as possible. The Russian drone pilots selectively targeted them, even though they saw that they were not military personnel. Acts of barbarity and cynicism, marked by a complete disregard for life, have occurred not only here in Donbas but also in all the regions directly affected by the war.
Suffice it to say that in Komyshany, in Kherson, a 62-year-old woman forced to leave her home bled to death after stopping to place a wreath next to a monument, which then exploded, tearing her apart. Here in Donetsk, on May 8, two people died on their doorsteps in Dobropillia while waiting for a car that might have taken them to safety; one died in Kramatorsk while receiving supplies from volunteers; another was wounded in Lyman; and another in Maiachka. In this last village, at the edge of the Donbas defensive belt, we recorded a clip (available on “La Ragione’s” YouTube channel) to show the conditions of the back roads where several evacuees ended up getting stuck, only to be torn to pieces by vectors of death that seemed to call to each other like birds of prey over their prey.
On May 9, the Russian air force dropped its deadly payloads on eight inhabited settlements in Donbas, including Sviatohirsk, Kramatorsk, Sloviansk, Privillia, Druzhkivka, and others in the Siversk community.
The following day, it was impossible to approach any of them because the barrage of Russian bombs and drones resumed as soon as civilians attempted to evacuate. Areas such as Oleksandrivka, Kostiantynivka, and Katerynivka are now so razed that their former urban character can only be discerned by examining the structure of the rubble from above.
On Sunday evening, a Russian incendiary drone struck a civilian couple who were trying to escape the hellish situation in Druzhkivka in their car. The images of three other civilians dying beside a burning vehicle on the stretch from Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka toward the anti-drone corridor, from which we captured the other footage in that area, cannot be published.
In total, 382 people were targeted by Russia during those evacuations, including 40 children on Friday, 603 minors and 100 minors on Saturday, and 421 minors and 74 minors on Sunday.
In some areas, people were forced to drink water from puddles and defecate in plastic bags because the looming Russian world had deprived them of water and sewerage systems months earlier, carpet-bombing every visible human structure. It’s necessary to explain this, since certain sordid characters are still being invited on TV to claim that the Russian world would come to their rescue.
As we described in Kherson, even here in Donetsk, ambulances can no longer safely reach residential areas because Russian drones are blocking doctors’ access. Elderly people in wheelchairs, bedridden patients, pregnant women, and newborns born in basements shaken by the russkij mir were targeted as they cleared out places incompatible with life, where, however, no Russian soldier will ever set foot.
The situation on the battlefield shows Ukrainian soldiers advancing and Russian soldiers retreating, even in areas where — at a very high human cost — they had managed to establish themselves.
The strategic initiative is increasingly in Kyiv’s hands, and with its unmanned units, it is exerting unsustainable pressure on Russian infantry, increasingly enticed by the promise of compensation that, as we have already explained, perhaps even their families will never receive.
This trend is now consolidated even in the northern regions, where the Russian army is losing troops and ground every day.
Breaking through the enemy defensive line toward Vovchansk, soldiers of the 23rd Ukrainian Assault Regiment cleared the Russian front lines, expanding Kyiv’s control zone into Kharkiv Oblast’. Further north, beyond the Sumy sector, Ukrainian partisans from Atesh carried out operations worthy of the army’s best special forces, destroying an electric locomotive and damaging a railway line in Russia’s Lipetsk region.
Clearly, no matter how much terror it unleashes against the civilians it claims to protect in Donbas, Putin’s regime is nearing decline. So much so that, beyond the approved plans, it is already deploying four additional regiments — 24 divisions and 162 batteries — to defend Krasnodar Krai and Moscow.
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浴火解放：在顿巴斯，被普京“解放”的民众正在死去——被迫喝水积水为生
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
翻译：旺财球球
乌克兰前线报道
克拉马托尔斯克 ——他们曾想要相信这一切。当新的俄罗斯与朝鲜士兵在莫斯科游行，身披镰刀锤子符号和以圣乔治丝带拼成的“Z”字时，弗拉基米尔·普京声称想要“解放”的顿巴斯平民，实际上在试图逃离。
逃离俄罗斯人。
（图：Alla与我在本文所述最激烈的杀伤区之一、一处平民基础设施废墟前报道——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
车流和巴士像河流般从顿涅茨克州受侵略者怒火重创的地区涌向反无人机通道，试图尽可能多地搭载平民撤离。尽管俄方无人机飞手能看清这些人并非军人，他们仍选择性地攻击平民。这种对生命的野蛮与极端冷酷、彻底漠视的俄军行为，不仅发生在顿巴斯，也出现在所有直接受战争影响的地区。
仅举几例：在赫尔松的科米沙尼，一名逃离家园途中的一位62岁妇女在停下来在一座纪念碑旁放置花圈时中弹流血致死，纪念碑随后爆炸将她撕裂。在顿涅茨克，5月8日，在多布罗皮利亚，有两人在家门口等车希望获救时丧生；在克拉马托尔斯克，一人在接受志愿者物资时死亡；另有一人在利曼受伤；还有人在马亚奇卡受伤。在顿巴斯防御带边缘的马亚奇卡村庄，我们拍摄了一段视频（可在“La Ragione”的YouTube频道查看），记录了几条道路恶劣的状况，多名撤离者在那里被困，最终被死亡载体撕成碎片，那些无人机像猛禽围猎猎物般相互呼应，锁定目标。
（视频：我在乌克兰顿涅茨克马亚奇卡录制的影像 ——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
5月9日，俄空军向顿巴斯八个有人居住的定居点投下致命炸弹，包括斯维亚托希尔斯克、克拉马托尔斯克、斯洛维扬斯克、普里维利亚、德鲁日基夫卡，以及西韦尔斯克社区的其他地点。
次日，当平民尝试撤离时，俄国的炸弹和无人机密集袭击立即恢复，人们根本无法接近这些地点。奥列克桑德里夫卡、科斯坦丁尼夫卡和卡捷里尼夫卡等地如今被夷为平地，其往日的城市面貌只能从高空通过废墟结构辨认出来。
周日晚，一架俄方燃烧弹无人机袭击了一对试图驾车逃离德鲁日基夫卡地狱般境况的平民夫妇。我们在从奥列克西耶沃—德鲁日基夫卡通向反无人机通道路段拍摄到的另一段画面中，有三名平民在一辆燃烧的车辆旁死亡的影像，无法公开刊发。
（图：住宅区变成了杀戮地带。这就是“俄斯基世界”在乌克兰留下的景象——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
在这些撤离行动中，共有382人被俄方攻击，其中包括周五被袭的40名儿童，周六被袭的603名未成年人和100名少年，以及周日被袭的421名未成年人和74名少年。
在一些地区，人们被迫从水洼中取水饮用，用塑料袋排便，因为逼近的“俄罗斯世界”数月前就剥夺了他们的供水和排水系统，对所有可见的人类建筑进行了地毯式轰炸。必须说明这一点，因为仍有一些卑劣人物上电视声称“俄国世界”会来拯救他们。
（图：Alla与我在乌克兰赫尔松一处被俄联邦摧毁的加油站报道——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
正如我们在赫尔松所描述的，即便在顿涅茨克，救护车也无法安全抵达居民区，因为俄方无人机阻断了医护人员的通行。 “俄斯基世界”的受害者包括坐轮椅的老人、卧床病人、孕妇以及在地窖中出生的新生儿，他们从那些无法生存的地方撤离时成为俄军的攻击目标，而俄罗斯士兵从未踏足这些地方。
战场态势显示乌克兰士兵在推进，俄军在撤退，即便在那些他们以极高人力代价建立据点的地区亦然。
战略主动权越来越掌握在基辅手中，乌克兰凭借无人作战单位对俄方步兵施加了难以承受的压力，俄军士兵日益被“补偿”许诺所诱惑，如我们已述，这些补偿或许连他们的家人也得不到。
这一趋势如今已在北部地区巩固，俄军在那里每天损失士兵与战线阵地。
（图：我指向的是几名乌克兰孩子在儿童游乐场，那里被乌克兰的壑壑所困。其余是俄方炮弹与无人机挖出的坑——我们在杀戮地带的生活 ——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
在突破通往沃夫昌斯克的敌军防线行动中，乌克兰第23突击团清除了俄军前线阵地，将基辅的控制区扩展到哈尔科夫州。更北些，在苏梅地区以外，来自Atesh的乌克兰游击队实施了堪比陆军特种部队的行动，在俄罗斯利佩茨克地区摧毁了一台电力机车并损坏了一段铁路。
显然，无论普京政权对其声称要“保护”的顿巴斯平民施加多少恐怖，它都在走向衰落。以至于，除了已批准的兵力部署之外，它已在为防卫克拉斯诺达尔边疆区和莫斯科调动另外四个团——24个师和162个炮兵营。
（图：Alla与我在乌克兰克拉马托尔斯克报道 ——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
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