The Mask of the West Slips in the Donbas
The Mask of the West Slips in the Donbas
By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine
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Donetsk Oblast‘— As we emerged from the hovel where we’d holed up while darkness and fog favored the Russian firestorm, we came across a woman’s leg. A KAB glide bomb had swept through a building less than two hundred meters away, demolishing it to its foundations and tearing the limb off up to the groin before hurling it in our direction. Of those bombs, which are too often missing from reports on the vectors of death used against Ukraine, the Russians have fired nearly a thousand this week alone. More than half of them being directed at this area of Donbas, equipped with UMPK kits and latest-generation Chinese microturbojets.
Nearly a thousand kilometers away, in the heart of western Ukraine, the same terrorist matrix had just hours earlier caused destruction in Ternopil’. Rescue efforts went on for more than a day, resulting in 26 deaths and 98 people injured, including 18 children. Nineteen people were burned alive, among them three minors aged 5, 7, and 16. A Russian Kh-101 missile produced in late 2025, i.e., recently, had struck the apartment building where they were sleeping.
The manufacturing date of that device should awaken the consciences of the countries — including European nations — that continue to fund Russian terrorism by buying record amounts of hydrocarbons from Moscow.
Traveling from Donbas to the areas of Kharkiv Oblast’ liberated in 2022, the situation remains unchanged. A few days ago, in Balakliia, we faced the destruction caused by two Russian missiles launched by the Iskander system against two apartment buildings filled with civilians, killing 3 and injuring 13. Both of those missiles were recently made. Further north, in the center of Kharkiv, a barrage of Chinese and North Korean drones and missiles purchased by Russia caused 46 casualties. All civilians.
Dreams, lives, and businesses lost weigh heavily on the scales of those who continue to trade Ukrainians’ blood for Russian gas, LNG, and oil.
Bitterly, this is one of the ingredients in the mortar being used to build what’s called “peace” over the heads of Ukrainians. A figure, cited yesterday by Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenegard, illustrates the situation:
«Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Union has imported 124 billion euros more from Moscow than it has provided in aid to Kyiv: 187 billion versus 311 billion».
Almost double.
Those who have lived through the war here for 12 years see this hypocrisy persist just as long. The very same Russian-speaking Ukrainians whom Putin’s regime claims to want to “save” by bombing them reject both the Russkij mir and the peace projects that smell of surrender. Written by the same hands that — in the invaded Donbas and Crimea — kept the Russian regime afloat by issuing billion-dollar checks every month.
Without mincing words, these people reject hypocrisy as a binding agent to build the wall of a truce because anyone who speaks to them of “peace” ends up bombing them.
According to Western plans, the wall that should separate democracies from regimes will pass through here, cutting across eastern Ukraine from north to south. It involves demilitarizing those who, with weapons in hand, protected democracy from tyranny and forcing them to abandon lands, homes, and lives defended with blood and tears for twelve years. This is a fate shared by those who would find themselves living in a no-man’s land, under the influence of a regime but belonging to a free country, and despite having fought more than anyone else for that freedom.
Over 12 years, the Russian army has advanced 50 kilometers toward Pokrovsk, with only 11 kilometers toward Toretsk. Here in Donetsk, ditches, barbed wire, minefields, and lethal traps now separate one row of houses from another. The safety corridors—routes of fear or death—are normal paths of communication, used even by civilians on scooters. Bread arrives every morning, and the best meals are still enjoyed here, because those who remain have resisted. And that food tastes like freedom.
So, regardless of who ultimately drops their masks by calling a delusional surrender plan made with the Russians a «peace plan», it’s appropriate for everyone who thinks they can decide the fate of these people to do some soul-searching. If they still have one.
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作者：Giorgio Provinciali
乌克兰前线报道
顿涅茨克州（Donetsk Oblast）——当我们从躲避借助黑暗和雾气肆虐的俄军炮火的小掩体出来时，我们发现了一条女人的腿。一枚KAB滑翔炸弹从不到两百米远的建筑物中穿过将其夷为平地，并撕断了这个女人的大腿，然后朝我们这边抛来。这些炸弹在针对乌克兰的死亡报告中常常被忽略，而俄军仅这一周就发射了近一千枚，其中一半以上是针对顿巴斯这一地区，装配了UMPK套件和最新一代的中国微涡轮发动机。
（图：愿因俄罗斯恐怖主义而遭受暴力袭击的受害者安息——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
近千公里外在乌克兰西部中心，几个小时前，同样的恐怖网络在特尔诺皮尔造成了毁灭性破坏。救援工作进行了超过一天，袭击导致26人死亡，98人受伤，其中包括18名儿童。19人被活活烧死，其中包括三名未成年人，年龄分别为5岁、7岁和16岁。一枚在2025年底生产的俄罗斯Kh-101导弹击中了公寓大楼，当时居民正在睡觉。
该设备的制造日期应该唤醒那些仍通过从莫斯科购买创纪录数量的碳氢化合物继续资助俄罗斯恐怖主义的国家的良知，包括一些欧洲国家。
从顿巴斯前往2022年解放的哈尔科夫州地区，情况依然没有改变。几天前，在巴拉克利亚，我们目睹了俄军伊斯坎德尔系统发射的两枚导弹对两栋满是平民的公寓楼造成的破坏，导致3人死亡，13人受伤。这两枚导弹都是近期制造的。在北边的哈尔科夫市中心，俄军购买的中国和北朝鲜的无人机及导弹轰炸造成46人伤亡，全部是平民。
失去的梦想、生命和生意，沉重的加在那些继续以乌克兰人民的鲜血换取俄罗斯天然气、液化天然气和石油的人的身上。
令人痛心的是，这也是在乌克兰人民头顶上构建所谓“和平”的水泥中的一部分成分。瑞典外交部长玛丽亚·马尔梅尔·斯特内加德昨天引用的数据，说明了这一情况：“自俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰以来，欧盟从莫斯科进口的金额比对基辅提供的援助多了1240亿欧元：1870亿对3110亿。”
几乎是双倍。
在这里经历了12年的战争的那些人看到，这种虚伪持续了同样长时间。正是普京政权声称要通过轰炸来“拯救”的那些讲俄语的乌克兰人，拒绝了俄国世界（Russkij mir）和那些带有投降气息的和平计划。这些计划正是那些在被侵占的顿巴斯和克里米亚中，通过每月开出亿万支票维持俄罗斯政权的人所书写的。
直言不讳地说，这些人拒绝以虚伪作为建立停火墙的粘合剂，因为任何向他们谈及“和平”的人就是最终轰炸他们的人。
（图：照片来源：X）
根据西方的计划，应该将民主与政权分开的墙将在这里修建，从北到南贯穿乌克兰东部。这涉及让那些手握武器的、保护民主免受暴政的人员非军事化，迫使他们放弃用鲜血和泪水捍卫了十二年的土地、家园和生活。这样的命运同样降临到了那些发现自己生活在无人区的人身上，他们受到一个政权的影响下，却属于一个自由的国家，并且为这种自由的奋斗付出了比任何人都多的努力。
在过去的12年中，俄军向波克罗夫斯克推进了50公里，向托列茨克仅推进了11公里。在顿涅茨克，现在这里的沟壕、铁丝网、雷区和致命陷阱将一排房屋与另一排房屋隔开。安全走廊——恐惧或死亡的通道——成为了常规的交通路线，甚至连骑滑板车的平民也在使用。面包每天早晨都能送达，而这里的人们仍然可以享用到最丰盛的餐点，因为留下的人们已经坚持了下来。那份食物的味道如同自由。
所以，无论最后是谁摘掉面具，将与俄方达成的妄想投降计划称为“和平计划”，每一个自以为可以决定这些人命运的人都应该进行一些灵魂的反思。如果他们还有灵魂的话。
（图：我在乌克兰顿涅茨克州的奥列克桑德里夫卡 - 版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
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