In Sloviansk, the Russians Hunt the People Who Are Trying to Leave
By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine
Sloviansk — Russian bombs and drones continue to rain down on the Ukrainian Donbas. Most of the latter are targeting fleeing civilians, preventing their evacuation.
Yesterday morning in Sloviansk, a targeted Russian attack on the town damaged twenty buildings, injured three civilians, and destroyed as many cars. In nearby Mykolaivka, occupiers targeted three apartment buildings, a single-family home, five administrative buildings, and a power pylon, reducing them to rubble. In Bilenke — a small hamlet in the Kramatorsk district where we witnessed the extent of Russian terror stalking locals 10 months ago — two civilians were seriously injured while trying to escape the rubble of their homes. Further south, in Druzhkivka, the Russian army hindered the evacuation of more civilians, brutally injuring four. Along the same route, other people were struck by a swarm of Russian drones while fleeing their homes in Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka and Osykove. Still others were struck in the central part of the Novodonetsk district.
With enormous difficulty and often serious injuries to themselves, as well as damage to their vehicles, the Ukrainian evacuees managed to save a total of 370 people, 72 of whom were children.
This was, however, only the latest entry in a twelve-year series, in which the Russian occupiers targeted another 396 fleeing Ukrainian civilians (47 of whom were children) the day before yesterday, 447 (36 children) the day before that, and so on. All official data released by the Donetsk Administration.
Suffice it to say that in the last four years alone, not counting the bloodbaths in Mariupol’ and Volnovakha, the Moscow regime has killed 4,025 Ukrainian civilians and injured 9,291 in this part of Donbas.
Almost certainly, most were Russian-speakers. These statistics have been recorded daily by local authorities since February 24, 2022, when Putin declared the inevitability of a special military operation to «save» these people.
Yesterday, the Russian army continued to harass fleeing buses and cars, injuring more Ukrainian civilians, even in remote areas like Cherkasky. The clips we will make available on “La Ragione’s” YouTube channel in the next few hours (some are already online) require no further explanation.
As in much of the rest of the country, it’s snowing here in Donetsk, even though it’s late April. Not far from Sloviansk, when we stopped, exhausted, to warm ourselves with a hot drink, the drone detectors began to blare. Soon, the air-raid warning also began to echo: some of the quadcopters flying over our positions were reconnaissance aircraft, while others were certainly carrying sniper munitions. Various Russian UAVs with high-explosive potential began to make themselves heard in the distance.
Ukrainian anti-aircraft fire has legendary effectiveness, recognized worldwide, not least in the Middle East, in shooting them down. However, this does not rule out the possibility of a fatal event for anyone caught in the path of a flock of those vectors of death. So much so that some fiery lapilli set a clearing not far from us on fire. To smother the flames, the Ukrainian soldiers who arrived even used their own jackets. Once the fire was extinguished, we gave them ours so they wouldn’t be left in the freezing cold. Stopping your car, even for quick operations, can be fatal in these parts these days. In fact, the radars started ringing again every time someone stopped to help us.
As with every other occasion when the bloodthirsty regime in Moscow has granted a ceasefire, the so-called “Easter truce” fits precisely into this context and poses the risk of further widespread attacks across Ukraine, for which local authorities have already been warned.
After a long series of massacres of innocents caused by Russian bombs in Ukraine over the previous 24 hours, on Thursday we concluded a dispatchfrom Nikopol’ on these pages, noting that — according to data published the day before by LSEG — Russian gas imports to the EU increased by 17% in the last quarter compared to the previous year, reaching 4.8 million tons. Before us was a Ukrainian bus gutted by a Russian drone, pieces of human flesh strewn across the asphalt, and a pool of blood so large it spilled onto the sidewalks on both sides of the road.
Shortly before our latest from Sloviansk, our colleagues at the Financial Times reminded us that «97% of all goods coming from the Russian hub of Yamal [one of the largest and most strategic gas production and liquefaction facilities in the world] are destined for European Union ports», clearing two possible reasons: Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, stemming from the Israeli-American attacks — which, in response, damaged the infrastructure through which LNG supplies from Qatar flow — and sanctions that have made it more difficult to redirect Russian goods to Asia, effectively making the European market the only available destination.
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在斯洛維揚斯克，俄羅斯人獵殺試圖離開的人們
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
翻譯：旺財球球
烏克蘭前線報道
斯洛維揚斯克 —— 俄羅斯的炸彈和無人機繼續傾瀉在烏克蘭頓巴斯地區。無人機多數瞄準攻擊逃離的平民，阻止他們撤離。
（圖：烏克蘭頓涅茨克州的斯洛維揚斯克的幾幢被俄羅斯聯邦摧毀的房屋 —— 版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
昨天早晨，俄羅斯對斯洛維揚斯克發動了一起有針對性的襲擊，造成城內二十棟建築受損，三名平民受傷，多輛汽車被毀。在附近的米科拉伊夫卡，俄占領軍襲擊了三棟公寓樓、一座獨棟住宅、五幢行政建築和一根輸電塔，將它們夷為廢墟。在比連克——克拉馬托爾斯克區的一個小村莊，十個月前我們曾在那兒親眼目睹俄羅斯恐怖對當地人的蹂躪——兩名平民在試圖從他們房屋的廢墟中逃生時嚴重受傷。再往南，在德魯日基夫卡，更多平民被俄軍阻斷了撤離，殘忍致傷了四人。同一方向上，在奧列克西耶沃-德魯日基夫卡和奧西科維另有一些人在逃離家園時遭到一群俄羅斯無人機襲擊。還有人在新頓涅茨克區中部被擊中。
（視頻：Alla和我十個月前在克拉馬托爾斯克拍攝的一段視頻 ——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：幾名平民在躲避無人機時試圖收拾行李並撤離——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
盡管遭受巨大困難，且常身受重傷，車輛也遭受破壞，但烏克蘭撤離人員仍設法救出了370人，其中72名是兒童。
然而，這僅是過去十二年連續事件中的最新一項：俄占領軍僅在前天就瞄準襲擊了396名逃難中的烏克蘭平民，其中47名為兒童；再前一天為447人（36名兒童）；如此等等。以上全為頓涅茨克州當局發布的官方數據。
僅在過去四年裏，不包括馬裏烏波爾和沃爾諾瓦卡的大屠殺，莫斯科政權就在頓巴斯這一地區就已經殺害了4,025名烏克蘭平民、致傷9,291人。
（圖表來源與致謝：頓涅茨克州軍事管理局）
幾乎可以肯定的是，大多數受害者為俄語使用者。自2022年2月24日普京宣布進行所謂“特別軍事行動”以“拯救”這些人以來，當地當局每天都在記錄這些統計數據。
昨天，俄軍繼續騷擾撤離的公交車和汽車，造成更多烏克蘭平民受傷，即使是切爾卡斯基等偏遠地區也未能幸免。我們將在未來幾小時內把相關片段上傳到“La Ragione”的YouTube頻道（其中一些已在線），無需再做任何解釋。
（視頻：Alla和我在烏克蘭頓涅茨克州斯洛維揚斯克拍攝的影像——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
如同這個國家其他許多地區一樣，頓涅茨克此刻正在下雪，盡管已是四月下旬。離斯洛維揚斯克不遠處，我們因疲憊停下用熱飲取暖時，無人機探測器開始報警。不久，防空警報也隨之響起：一些在我們陣地上空盤旋的四軸無人機是偵察器，另一些則無疑攜帶狙擊彈藥。多架具備高爆潛力的俄羅斯無人機從遠處傳來轟鳴聲。
（圖：一架“沙赫德殺手”正在飛來——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
烏克蘭的防空火力在擊落這些無人機方麵的成效已成傳奇，獲得全球認可，其中包括中東。然而，這並不排除有人落入這些成群的死亡載體飛行路徑時遭遇致命事件的可能性。以至於有些熾熱的碎片點燃了離我們不遠的一處空地。趕來滅火的烏克蘭士兵甚至用自己的夾克撲滅火焰。火被撲滅後，我們把自己的夾克交給他們，以免他們在嚴寒中受凍。如今在這片地區，即便為了快速行動短暫停車也可能致命。事實上，每當有人停下幫我們時，雷達就會再次響起。
（圖：烏克蘭頓涅茨克，通往斯洛維揚斯克某條道路旁，反無人機走廊旁的一輛小卡車殘骸 ——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
正如莫斯科那個嗜血政權以往每次宣布停火時的情況一樣，所謂的“複活節休戰”恰好落入這種背景，給烏克蘭全境帶來進一步大規模攻擊的風險，當地當局已對此發出警告。
（圖：烏克蘭頓涅茨克，通往斯洛維揚斯克通道旁，另一輛被俄軍無人機毀壞的汽車殘骸 ——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
在過去24小時內俄羅斯炸彈在烏克蘭造成了一係列對無辜者的大屠殺。周四，我們在此版麵完成了自尼科波爾的一篇報道，並指出——根據倫敦證券交易所集團前一天公布的數據——與去年同期相比，俄羅斯對歐盟的天然氣進口在上個季度增長了17%，達到480萬噸。我們麵前是一輛被俄羅斯無人機燒毀的烏克蘭公交車，瀝青路麵上散落著人體殘骸，血跡多到溢到道路兩側的人行道上。
在我們發自斯洛維揚斯克的報道發布前不久，《金融時報》的同事提醒我們：“來自俄羅斯亞馬爾樞紐——世界上最大且最有戰略意義的天然氣生產和液化設施之一——的所有貨物中有97%運往歐盟港口”，並解釋了兩個可能原因：受以色列—美國襲擊的影響，伊朗控製了霍爾木茲海峽，這些襲擊也損壞了通過卡塔爾輸送液化天然氣的基礎設施；其二，製裁使得將俄羅斯貨物轉向亞洲變得更加困難，從而實際上使歐洲市場成為唯一可達的目的地。
遮蔽我們視線的不是霧霾。
（圖：Alla和我與兩位真正的英雄合影，他們跳入火海脫掉衣物撲滅火焰 ——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：我們的防衛者在穿著我們的夾克、以英勇之舉向烏克蘭國旗致敬並簽名????——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
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