With a Caravan of Humanitarian Aid Moving Toward the Heart of the War
By: Giorgio Provinciali
*The original article：https://medium.com/@giorgioprovinciali/with-a-caravan-of-humanitarian-aid-moving-toward-the-heart-of-the-war-ad4cc04b93e9?sk=6e72081e03570e7254879d1579f61063
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Khmelnytskyi – While most media coverage focuses on the flotilla intercepted en route to Gaza by the Israeli navy, a group of Italian volunteers has set out to reach the front lines of a war that is perhaps too quiet in the streets of Italy, providing concrete and truly essential humanitarian aid.
We met them in Khmelnytskyi, a city that has experienced relentless attacks since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, causing frequent power and water outages in several areas, damaging a dozen skyscrapers and three schools, and injuring multiple civilians and killing one rescuer.
Following Antonino Alfio Moschetto, an Italian businessman in Ukraine who was later forced to flee the bombings, we met Dr. Marco Sarboraria, an anesthesiologist who had traveled from Aosta with Silvio Gasparella and Roberto Sangiorgio; Carlo Ferrari from Florence (whom we had already met during previous operations supporting the Ukrainian resistance); Gianpiero Cavarero from Cuneo; and little Dante, Moschetto’s four-year-old son and the group’s mascot. They drove a support vehicle and five ambulances purchased thanks to the generous contributions of organizations such as the Aosta Valley Community Foundation, the Chornobyl Children’s Rights Forum, Roberto Benelli, and the Lunigiana Pontremoli Rotary Club, as well as the Ukrainian parish communities in Italy coordinated by Father Yuriy Ivanyuta.The reason is simple: as Moschetto – who, in addition to living in this city for a long time, has led more than 60 similar humanitarian missions – knows well, Khmelnytskyi has been severely impacted by the Russians, especially its hospital infrastructure. The broader emergency facing the Ukrainian healthcare system is such that it requires diverting many medical vehicles and equipment to areas closer to the fighting. With him and Chaplain Vitaly Futorskyi, who coordinates similar humanitarian missions, we visited the local hospital, damaged by a violent Russian attack that has devastated several other private and residential buildings this year, killing three civilians.
As we reported on these pages, a few months earlier, a swarm of Russian drones had targeted the area of the local nuclear power plant, marking one of the most critically important moments of the war on the night between October 25 and 26, 2024: clear proof that Putin considers even those highly sensitive civilian infrastructures as strategic targets for blackmailing West.
Due to that attack which severely damaged local power lines, 1,860 households in the Slavuta and Netishyn districts of this region were completely disconnected. Eleven apartment buildings, nine private homes, two schools, an administrative building, a shop, a fuel depot, and several cars were destroyed.
Pausing with the Italian volunteers in front of one of those ruins to take some photographs, we noticed that the already valuable convoy of ambulances they were about to deliver contained an equally precious cargo: medical devices including a complete ultrasound scanner, medications, clothing, food, and 150 shoulder and knee prostheses with corresponding operating kits for use in delicate surgeries to restore function and dignity to those who suffered the most serious consequences of those bombings.
The presence of courageous Italians like those we met today in Khmelnytskyi demonstrates how important it is to stay focused on initiatives like theirs because only by listening to and working with those who truly experience war can we make sure that the necessary aid gets to the right place at the right time.
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作者：乔治·普罗温恰利
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Khmelnytskyi—虽然大部分媒体报道集中在被以色列海军拦截的前往加沙的舰队上，但一群意大利志愿者正前往前线提供具体且真正重要的人道主义援助，可能因为意大利街头的对他们来说太安静了。
我们在赫姆尼察基与他们相遇，这座城市自俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰以来遭遇了持续不断的攻击，导致多个区域频繁停电断水，十几栋摩天大楼和三所学校被毁，造成多名平民受伤，一名救援人员遇难。
跟随乌克兰的意大利商人安东尼诺·阿尔菲奥·莫斯切托--他后来被迫逃离轰炸，我们见到了麻醉师马可·萨博拉里亚博士和同样来自奥斯塔的西尔维奥·加斯帕雷拉和罗伯托·桑吉奥，来自佛罗伦萨的卡洛·法拉利（我们在之前支持乌克兰抵抗的行动中见过他），来自库尼奥的吉安皮耶罗·卡瓦雷罗，以及莫斯切托四岁的儿子、团队的吉祥物小达尼尔。他们驾驶一辆援助车和五辆救护车，这些车辆均由奥斯塔谷社区基金会、切尔诺贝利儿童权利论坛、罗伯托·贝内利和卢尼吉亚纳·蓬特雷莫利扶轮社、以及尤里·伊万尤塔神父协调的意大利乌克兰教区社区等组织的慷慨捐助。
原因很简单：正如莫谢托—这位在赫姆尼察基居住了很长时间、并领导过60余次类似人道任务—所了解的，赫姆尼察基受俄罗斯攻击的影响严重，尤其是其医院基础设施。乌克兰医疗保健系统面临的更广泛的紧急情况是，它需要将许多医疗车辆和设备转移到离战区更近的地方。
在他和维塔利·富托斯基牧师（负责协调类似人道主义行动）的陪同下，我们参观了当地医院，该医院被俄罗斯猛烈袭击破坏，今年俄军的袭击还摧毁了其他多栋私人和住宅建筑，造成三名平民死亡。
（图：我，在文章描述的救护车前，版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
正如我们在此刊报到的，几个月前，一群俄国无人机定向袭击了当地核电站区，使2024年10月25日至26日夜间成为战争最重要的时刻之一：充分证明普京将高度敏感的民用基础设施视为威胁西方的战略目标。
那次袭击严重破坏了当地的电力线路，使斯拉夫塔和涅蒂尚地区的1860户家庭完全断电。十一座公寓楼、九栋私人住房、两所学校、一座行政楼、一家商店、一处燃料仓库以及数辆汽车被摧毁。
（图，意大利志愿者正在从救护车上卸载医疗设备—版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
我们在一处废墟前与意大利志愿者们合影时注意到，他们即将交付的本身弥足珍贵的救护车车队满载着同样珍贵的货物：包括一台完整的超声扫描仪的医疗设备、药品、衣物、食物，以及150个肩膝义肢和相应的精细手术包，用于修复伤者遭受的这些爆炸严重后果引致的功能和尊严受损。
今日在赫姆尼察基遇到的这些勇敢的意大利人，展示了保持专注于像他们这样行动的重要性，因为只有倾听并与那些真正经历战争的人合作，我们才能确保必要的援助及时、到达正确的地点。
（图：从左到右：我、维塔利·富托斯基牧师、卡洛·法拉利、安东尼诺·阿尔菲奥·莫斯切托—版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
