Corridors Of Death
By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine
Cherkaske, Donetsk — The number of Russian bombs and drones continuing to rain down on this part of Donbas is terrifying. Shortly before this article was sent for publishing, a Ukrainian civilian died in Kramatorsk and another in Druzhkivka. Two more died yesterday, and others were seriously injured in Kramatorsk, Riznikivka (the community of Siversk in Bakhmut District), Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka, and Sloviansk. On average, about three hundred adults and fifty children are evacuated from these areas of Donetsk every day, but the Russian Armed Forces are impeding even these already extremely difficult operations by now targeting civilian vehicles with the same high-explosive drones they previously used against military vehicles.
In the Pokrovsk District, the communities of Dobropillia and Shakhivka have suffered extensive destruction. Yesterday, a civilian died there as well, including in Oleksandrivka. Having traveled almost daily for months along the anti-drone corridors connecting those (now former) cities and dozens of other small settlements in Donbas, we’ve noted that the trips are increasingly dangerous because the fishnets installed above the road surface are often damaged. Russian drone operators are deliberately using multirotor kamikaze UAVs to attack those fences, clearing gaps with their sharp blades. On the stretches closest to Kostiantynivka, they’re now dropping white phosphorus with other drones, as we’ve documented in the Korabel neighborhood of Kherson. This makes repair efforts even more difficult, as it is clear that even the metal cages are insufficient to protect Ukrainian workers.
In a video we posted to this “La Ragione’s” YouTube channel in the past few hours, we showed gashes, some 20–30 meters long, along a stretch of road that is extremely critical for supplying Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka, Kostiantynivka, and their satellite settlements.
When we arrived in Cherkaske, the wreckage of a civilian vehicle was burning in the center of town, and the gas station where we usually stop to refuel urged us to move away because Russian drones had twice in one day attempted to blow up the station. In another clip, which we will upload in the next few hours, you can see Russian drones burning as they crash just meters from the kiosks where people usually stop for a hot drink before heading to nearby Sloviansk, the vortex of events.
In the opposite direction, yesterday we saw fire engines and ambulances riddled with bullets speeding by, a sight we had rarely seen before. At 5 a.m. on Wednesday, the Russian Air Force dropped a one-and-a-half-ton glide bomb directly on Sloviansk, hitting a children’s sports facility and severely damaging the civilian buildings from which we had recorded other, to say the least, heartbreaking images just a few days earlier. In these cases, the firefighters’ work far exceeds the call of duty and borders on devotion, because the Russians often target them with deadly double-taps.
The occupiers launch drones and incendiary bombs against civilian targets in the heart of the city, drawing first responders who rush to quell an inferno of flames and circling munitions to save as many lives as possible, only to kill them too with more drones. Throwing oneself into a desperate battle against the fire, in those conditions, means offering one’s life as the highest expression of duty.
With three-meter, 1,500-kg laser-guided bombs that generate a shock wave and overpressure that render any shielding surface ineffective, the Russians are demolishing the minimal conditions that still allow survival, movement, evacuation, rescue, and resupply. They are attempting to sever continuity among cities, suburbs, services, hospitals, refueling points, vehicles, and emergency teams, invalidating the entire protected segment of the road corridor.
They are well aware that passive anti-drone defenses are no longer mere logistical details but vital infrastructure. Therefore, they are seeking to compromise their structural integrity while simultaneously conducting deep structural demolition in cities like Kramatorsk and Sloviansk and, due to asymmetric demographic attrition, in their satellite settlements.
We will continue to document life beneath those fences on video because it is precisely in the minor nodes of normality that develop along the exposed arteries of Donbas that the Moscow regime is attempting to strip civilians of even the illusion of a residual routine. The distinction between civilian and military targets is being deliberately eroded to use the very population Putin has claimed for years he wanted to save as bait for expulsion. So much so that even saving a life here is already an act of resistance.
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死亡走廊
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
翻譯：旺財球球
烏克蘭前線報道
切爾卡斯克，頓涅茨克 —— 持續轟炸頓巴斯這一帶的俄羅斯炸彈和無人機數量令人恐懼。在本文送交發表前不久，克拉馬托爾斯克一名烏克蘭平民遇難，另一人在德魯日基夫卡喪生。昨天又有兩人死亡，另有多人在克拉馬托爾斯克、裏茲尼基夫卡（巴赫穆特區錫維爾斯克社區）、奧列克西耶沃-德魯日基夫卡和斯洛維揚斯克重傷。平均每天約有三百名成年人和五十名兒童從頓涅茨克這些地區撤離，但俄羅斯武裝部隊現在甚至用以前攻擊軍用車輛的高爆無人機直接攻擊民用車輛，阻礙了本已極其艱難的撤離行動。
（視頻：Alla和我在烏克蘭頓涅茨克切爾卡斯克拍攝的影像—— 版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：Alla和我在烏克蘭赫爾鬆殺傷區的一條死亡走廊內報道 —— 版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
在波克羅夫斯克區，多布羅皮利亞和沙希夫卡社區遭受嚴重破壞。昨天當地包括奧列克桑德裏夫卡那兒也有平民遇難。數月來我們幾乎每天沿著連接這些（現已不複存在的）城市和頓巴斯數十個小定居點的反無人機走廊行駛，觀察到行程愈發危險，因為覆蓋路麵的防無人機網常被破壞。俄羅斯無人機操作者故意用多旋翼自殺型無人機攻擊那些防護網，用鋒利的旋翼刀片撕開缺口。在靠近科斯蒂安丁尼夫卡的路段，他們現在還用其他無人機投撒白磷，正如我們在赫爾鬆科拉貝爾社區所記錄的那樣。這使得修複工作更加困難，顯然即便是金屬籠也不足以保護烏克蘭維修人員。
（圖：Alla和我在蘇梅的一條反無人機走廊內報道 —— 版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
在我們幾小時前發布到“La Ragione”YouTube頻道的一個視頻中，展示了一段對克拉馬托爾斯克、德魯日基夫卡、科斯蒂安丁尼夫卡及其衛星定居點極為關鍵的路段上長達20–30米的巨大破口。
（視頻：Alla和我拍攝的頓涅茨克州受損反無人機走廊受損的畫麵 —— 版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：Alla和我在頓涅茨克的一條死亡走廊內報道 —— 版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
我們抵達切爾卡斯克時，一輛民用車的殘骸在鎮中心燃燒，我們常去加油的那個加油站催促我們離開，因為俄羅斯無人機當天曾兩次試圖炸毀該加油站。在另一段我們將在數小時內上傳的片段中，你可以看到俄羅斯無人機在離Kiosks售貨亭數米處墜毀並燃燒，人們常在去附近斯洛維揚斯克——這場漩渦般事件的中心——前停下來在那裏買一杯熱飲。
（圖：Alla和我在烏克蘭頓涅茨克斯洛維揚斯克被俄聯邦摧毀的民用基礎設施廢墟前報道 —— 版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
在相反方向，昨天我們看到遍布彈孔的消防車和救護車飛馳而過，這樣的景象我們此前很少見到。周三淩晨5點，俄空軍向斯洛維揚斯克直接投下一枚一噸半的滑翔炸彈，擊中一處兒童體育設施，並嚴重損壞了周邊民用建築——而就在幾天前，我們曾在那裏拍攝了令人心碎的影像。在這些情況下，消防員們的工作遠超職責，近乎奉獻，因為俄軍常針對他們實施致命的二次打擊。
侵略者向市中心的民用目標發射無人機和燃燒彈，引發熊熊烈火，誘使第一時間趕來滅火和救援的人員衝入由火焰和盤旋彈藥構成的地獄，隻為盡可能多地拯救生命；而隨後，俄軍又用更多無人機將這些救援者殺害。在那樣的條件下投身滅火，無異於以生命作為職責的最高體現。
（圖：Alla與我在搭建有防無人機網防護的烏克蘭工事前報道 —— 版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（視頻：Alla和我在斯洛維揚斯克拍攝的影像 —— 版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
俄羅斯人用三米長、重達1,500公斤的激光製導炸彈製造的衝擊波和超壓，使任何遮蔽物形同無效，他們正在摧毀勉強維持生存、行動、撤離、救援和補給的最基本條件。俄軍企圖切斷城市、郊區、服務機構、醫院、加油點、車輛和應急隊伍之間的連續性，使整段受保護的道路走廊失效。
他們十分清楚，被動式反無人機防禦已不再是單純的後勤細節，而是重要的基礎設施。因此，他們一邊試圖破壞這些設施的結構完整性，一邊在克拉馬托爾斯克、斯洛維揚斯克等城市進行深度結構性破壞，並通過不對稱的人口消耗影響其衛星定居點。
（圖：Alla和我在紮波羅熱巴拉布內報道。這個小定居點現在完全生活在防無人機網下 —— 版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
我們將繼續用視頻記錄這些遮篷下的生活，因為恰恰是在頓巴斯這些暴露的交通幹道上，形成的這些微不足道的日常小節點中，莫斯科政權正試圖剝奪平民哪怕一絲殘存的日常幻象。平民與軍事目標之間的界限正在被故意抹除，企圖把普京多年來自稱要“拯救”的那部分人口當作誘餌驅逐出去。以至於在這裏，拯救一條生命本身已成為一種抵抗行為。
（圖：一年前的今天，我們深愛的維塔利克在保衛烏克蘭和自由世界的戰鬥中犧牲。一架俄羅斯無人機擊中了他。同一天，我們最親愛的朋友的兒子——另一位烏克蘭英雄——在斯洛維揚斯克附近遭遇同樣的命運犧牲。榮耀屬於烏克蘭。榮耀屬於英雄。英雄永生 ???? —— 版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
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