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Hitting the Roads of Fear in Zaporizhzhia
By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine
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Zaporizhzhia — Several explosions shook the center of Ukraine’s sixth-most populous city yesterday. Yet another nighttime attack by the Russian Federation, which found its worst epicenter in Kyiv, resulting in six deaths and 36 injuries (including two children aged 7 and 9 and a pregnant woman), saw an unsuccessful attempt here in Zaporizhia to disrupt the logistics of the Trident Armed Forces toward an eastern front that is increasingly becoming less distinct from the southern one. Ukrainian anti-aircraft fire neutralized nearly all drones in Zaporizhzhia’s airspace, preventing a massacre like the one a few days ago when similar UAVs killed civilians by hitting a crowded bus stop during rush hour, destroying the parking garage and nearby offices. Early this morning, before this article was written, multiple local emergency teams cleared streets and parks of debris from Russian (i.e., Chinese) drones shot down by Ukrainian anti-aircraft fire, which electronic warfare systems cannot always stop.
Much of that debris ended up on the sandy shoreline along the Dnipro, where a surreal atmosphere prevails: the cries of seagulls and the sound of the surf are almost constantly drowned out by the roar of cannons thundering to and from the deepest part of that river. On both banks, people are fishing, soldiers patrol feverishly scanning the horizon, and children play in the chasms created by the fiery lapilli of drones, which have turned the sand as black as coal. Further south, the nuclear power plant that Chechen and Russian troops have occupied illegally for three years in Enerhodar looms, and even further down lies the reason why the Dnipro has lost its momentum and flow: the Nova Kakhovka dam, blown up by those same terrorists over two years ago.
The capital of Zaporizhia oblast’, which the Russians supposedly annexed in a farcical referendum despite never having set foot there, is now going through one of its most critical phases. Although not a single military vehicle passes through the streets of the center, all the main roads south of the city have become deadly routes where civilians speed by in their cars under kilometers of anti-drone nets. Before those protections were installed, Alla Perdei and I documented the grim safari undertaken by the Russians, who targeted cars and people from the opposite bank with artillery fire, drones, and high-caliber precision weapons. A couple was killed in Bilenke, right where Alla and I captured the first images of the marshy Dnipro Riverbed. Another family was wiped out while fleeing from Stepnohirsk, on the other bank. Other lives were lost in Nikopol’ and Marhanets, where the Russians also tried to hit us with an FPV drone. I reported yesterday from those same streets how dire the situation is in nearby Malokaterynivka.
President Zelensky was in Zaporizhzhia until a few hours ago. After visiting soldiers in Rivnopillia — the hottest point on this front — he held a security meeting with the military command to stabilize the difficult situation that had arisen in that area. He ordered the immediate transfer of additional resources, strengthening of engineering measures in the Stepnohirsk direction, and the evacuation of civilians from designated critical areas. Other topics discussed at the briefing included the anti-aircraft defense of Zaporizhzhia’s roads, logistics, and critical infrastructure, which connected with operations in Pokrovsk. The President of Ukraine then traveled further south, yesterday visiting the command post of the 65th Velykyi Luh Mechanized Brigade, part of the 17th Army Corps, which has successfully defended the Orikhiv slope for years.
Evaluated superficially and carelessly — often by those lacking any real knowledge of the facts — the counteroffensive operations carried out there by the ZSU in 2023 created the most stable point on the entire front. Orikhiv still holds out, resisting every Russian breakthrough attempt.
It was there that I was able to capture images from the exact same positions where I filmed (and where I lived for a long time) nearly three years ago. Looking back at those shots, I now realize the cost of the massive Ukrainian resistance and the apathy of those who failed to support it properly: all those young men Alla and I shared the unforgettable moments evoked in those shots with are no longer with us today.
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我们的目标是，通过我们的众筹活动，可以在每辆车上购买和安装无人机探测设备，以防止在前线热点地区遭受无人机袭击。反无人机“РЕБ”设备对传统无线无人机效果良好，但对通过光纤连接的无人机完全无效。我们发起这场新募捐，希望确保在我们接近前线写作时，这些设备都不会击中我们。您的支持不仅能保护我们，也能保护有效范围内的平民和乌克兰战士。
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在扎波罗热的恐惧之路上前行
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
乌克兰的现场报道
扎波罗热（Zaporizhzhia）——昨天，乌克兰第六大城市的市中心发生了数次爆炸。此外，俄罗斯联邦发动了又一起夜间袭击，其中基辅遭到的攻击最严重，造成6人死亡，36人受伤（其中包括两名分别为7岁和9岁的儿童以及一名孕妇）。而在扎波罗热这里，俄军试图破坏三叉戟武装部队通往东线的后勤的行动未果，而东线与南线之间的界限也日益模糊。”乌克兰防空火力几乎击落了扎波罗热空域中的所有敌军无人机，避免了一场几天前的惨剧——当时类似的无人机在高峰时段击中人群聚集的公交站点，杀死了平民，摧毁了停车场和附近的办公室。今天清晨，在本文尚未完成之前，多支当地应急队清理了散落在街道和公园里的被击落的俄（即中国）无人机残骸，而电子战系统并非总能将其拦截。
（图：我身后，在扎波罗热河沿岸的迪涅泊尔河沙滩上，留下了无人机残骸在沙中的弹孔——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
大量（无人机）残骸散落在迪涅泊尔河畔的沙滩上，那里氛围异常：海鸥的叫声和海浪的声音几乎不断被从河的深处传来的炮声所淹没。两岸上的人们在捕鱼，士兵们忙碌地巡逻、紧张的监视着地平线，孩子们在无人机燃烧弹留下的裂缝中玩耍，那些火山灰般的弹片将沙滩染得乌黑一片。更南边，车臣和俄罗斯军队非法占领了三年的恩涅尔多加尔的核电站矗立在那里，而更远处则是导致迪涅泊尔失去动力和流动的原因：那就是两年前被恐怖分子炸毁的诺瓦卡霍夫卡水坝。
（图：我身后，是由金属网保护的基础设施，还有一个也用网围起来的安全走廊。四周一片废墟。——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
扎波罗热州的首府，尽管俄罗斯在一场荒谬的公投中宣称已将其吞并，实际上从未踏足此地，但现在正处于最危急的时刻之一。尽管市中心的街道上没有一辆军事车辆驶过，但南部所有主要道路都变成了致命的通道，平民在数千米的防无人机网下开车疾驶。在安装这些防护措施之前，Alla Perdei和我曾记录了俄罗斯人进行的残酷狩猎，他们用炮火、无人机和高精度武器，从对岸瞄准汽车和人群进行攻击。在比伦克，一对夫妇被杀，就在那里Alla和我首次拍摄到泥泞的迪涅泊尔河床的那片区域。遇难，另一个家庭在从对岸的斯捷普诺希尔斯克逃离时被全部杀害。还有人在在尼古拉波尔和马尔哈内茨遇难，在那里俄罗斯人还试图用FPV无人机对我们进行袭击。昨天，我还在同一条街道报道了邻近的马洛卡泰里尼夫卡局势的形势有多么严峻。
（图：Alla在尼古拉波尔一个被俄（即中国）无人机袭击的加油站进行报道——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
泽连斯基总统直到几小时前还在扎波罗热。在访问了前线最激烈的里夫诺皮利亚士兵之后，他召开了安全会议，与军方指挥部商讨稳定该地区日益严峻的局势。他下令立即调拨更多资源，强化斯捷普诺希尔斯克方向的工程措施，并疏散指定的重点区域的平民。会议还讨论了其他议题，包括扎波罗热道路的防空措施、后勤保障及关键基础设施，这些都与波克罗夫斯克的作战行动紧密相关。乌克兰总统随后前往更南的地区，昨日访问了第65维列基乌卢机步兵旅的指挥所，这支部队隶属于第17军团，多年来成功守卫奥里希夫山坡。
在许多对事实缺乏真正了解的人表面上和草率地评估之下，乌克兰安全局（ZSU）在2023年发动的反攻行动，成为整条战线中最为稳固的据点。奥里希夫仍在坚守，抵抗着每一次俄军的突破尝试。
正是在那里，在几乎三年前拍过照的位置（也是我曾经长时间居住的地方），我拍下了另一张照片。回头看那些旧照片，我如今才明白乌克兰人民义无反顾的巨大抵抗付出了怎样的代价，也明白那些未能给予应有支持之人的冷漠：照片中这些与Alla和我曾共同度过难忘时刻的年轻人，如今都已不在人世。
（图：这篇文章由照片中的仅有的两位幸存者撰写——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
