Wooden Windows and Steel Hearts
By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine
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Kyiv — President Zelensky announced that in the past week alone, the Russian Federation launched over 3,100 high-explosive drones, 92 other missiles of various types (both ballistic and cruise), and about 1,360 guided glide bombs against Ukraine. A walk through the streets of the Ukrainian capital reveals that most of these attacks targeted civilian infrastructure, indicating that Putin’s goal was to spread terror.
As you can see from the videos we recorded for the YouTube channel and website of the Italian newspaper “La Ragione”, walking through the Solomianskyi district of Kyiv, it’s hard to find a single section of its building facades where the windows haven’t been replaced with plywood, where the plaster isn’t blackened or chipped, and where the shop windows aren’t covered with additional wooden boards, temporary tarps, or sandbags. «We are open, we are working» – these few words are posted at their entrance, inviting people in because «the outside is scratched, but we are invincible, and inside it is beautiful.» An entire building in that district was struck head-on by a Russian missile, completely destroying it down to its foundations. Dolls and toys, carefully arranged on the front patio next to a children’s playground that was also destroyed, serve as a reminder that several children lost their lives in that massacre.
Openly exploiting the world’s focus on the Middle East, the Russian Federation continued strikes on Ukraine’s civilian areas throughout the past weekend, conducting attacks of equal ferocity. A 23-year-old woman bled to death after being torn to pieces by an FPV drone that chased her into a shop in Nikopol’. Nearby, other identical drones butchered a 62-year-old man by entering through the windows of his home. In Chernihiv, Russian drone operators carried out a devastating double tap to maximize casualties from an attack targeting rescue workers who responded to the latest strike on a civilian train locomotive. A swarm of incendiary UAVs launched from Russian positions in the Black Sea ignited everything in an area of over 5,000 square meters in the Odesa oblast’, destroying fabric and clothing warehouses, shops, and the civilians inside. Dropping a bomb on the Church of Job Pochaiv of the UOC in Kostiantynivka, Moscow’s air force instantly killed two men, aged 49 and 56, wounded several other civilians, and damaged nine homes in the Diocese of Horlivka. When Ukrainian police arrived at the scene of the tragedy, they found a two-year-old child alone after seeing his grandfather and father — seriously injured — trailing in panic toward the hospital in Druzhkivka. In Kherson, Russian military forces used a drone to attack an ambulance speeding through the heart of the Dnipro district, causing two more deaths and five injuries in a raid targeting residential neighborhoods. In that bombing, the Russians also targeted shops, gas stations, warehouses, cars, and thirteen apartment buildings. All of these are civilian targets, just like the premises of Stepan Chubenko General Secondary School №12, which two Russian Geran-2 drones struck on Saturday night in Kramatorsk.
The scope and severity of this terror, which Ukraine has been enduring for 1,328 days and, on a smaller scale, for another eight years, is embarrassing. It’s equally embarrassing to walk through the wooden storefronts and steadfast hearts of Kyiv and learn that the White House leader will confront the Russian dictator over the sale of Tomahawks to NATO and that the Federal Association of German Airlines (BDF) is urging politicians to act, requesting permission to neutralize those (Russian) drones that fly daily over its airports and which the federal police refuse to shoot down despite having full authority to do so.
木窗与钢心
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
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Kyiv—泽连斯基总统宣布，仅在上周，俄罗斯联邦就向乌克兰发射了超过3100架高爆无人机，92枚其他各种类型的导弹（包括弹道导弹和巡航导弹），以及大约1360枚制导滑翔弹。走在乌克兰首都的街头可以看到，大部分袭击目标是民用基础设施，这表明普京的目标是传播恐怖。
（图：文中提到的标志—版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
从我们为意大利报纸《La Ragione》的YouTube频道和网站拍摄的视频中可以看到，走在基辅索洛米扬斯基区，很难找到任何建筑立面的窗户没有被胶合板取代，石膏没有变黑或碎裂，商店橱窗没有覆盖额外的木板、临时防水布或沙袋。“我们在营业，我们在工作”—这些字贴在他们入口处，邀请人们进入，因为“外面被划伤了，但我们不可战胜，里面很美。”那一带的一座整栋建筑被俄军导弹正面袭击，完全炸毁到地基。前院的儿童游乐场也被摧毁了，现在里面精心摆放着娃娃和玩具，提醒人们在那场屠杀袭击中有几个儿童丧生。
（图：我在撰写本文前在乌克兰基辅索洛米扬斯基区拍的照片—版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
在世界的焦点放在中东局势的同时，俄罗斯联邦乘机在上周末持续对乌克兰平民区域发动袭击，展开了同样激烈的攻击。据报道，在尼古波尔，一名23岁的女子被一架FPV无人机追击，撕成碎片，在她跑进了商店后流血致死。就在那儿附近，其他相同型号的无人机也闯入一户人家的窗户，残忍杀害了一名62岁的男子。在切尔尼戈夫，俄军无人机操纵员针对赶去救援被袭击的民用火车机车的救援人员进行了二次攻击，试图最大程度地增加伤亡。
从俄罗斯在黑海的阵地发射的一波燃烧无人机点燃了敖德萨州5000多平方米的区域，摧毁了纺织品和服装仓库、商店和里面的平民。莫斯科空军发射炸弹击中科斯蒂安蒂尼夫卡的奥科伊斯教堂，当场炸死了两名分别为49岁和56岁的男子，打伤了其他几名平民，并摧毁了霍利夫卡教区的九所房屋。
当乌克兰警方赶到事故现场时，看到一名两岁的儿童独自一人惊慌失措地向德鲁日基夫卡的医院跑去，她的父亲和祖父都受了重伤。在赫尔松，俄军用无人机袭击了一辆正在飞速穿过第聂伯区中心的救护车，造成两人死亡、五人受伤。那次空袭中，俄军还瞄准了商店、加油站、仓库、汽车和13座公寓楼。这些目标都是平民目标，就像周六晚上2架俄罗斯“Geran-2”无人机袭击克拉马托尔斯克的斯捷潘·丘贝恩科第12号中学一样。
这场乌克兰已经持续遭受了1328天的恐怖活动的规模和严重程度令人感到愤怒，乌克兰已经忍受了1328天，或者说忍受了八年。同样令人愤怒的是，走在基辅那些木制店面和坚韧不屈的心灵之间，得知白宫领导人将就向北约出售战斧飞机一事与俄罗斯独裁者磋商，德国航空公司联邦协会（BDF）正在敦促政界采取行动，请求允许击落那些每天在其机场上空飞行的（俄罗斯）无人机，而联邦警察尽管有充分的权力，但拒绝将其击落。
（图：这张照片是我为本文在基辅拍摄的。在我身后就是本文描述的那所幼儿园，那里面依然有一些在俄军袭击中遇难儿童的玩具—版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（图：我在乌克兰哈伊辛拍摄了这段视频—版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
