Bogged Down in Mud, Torrential Rains, and Bombs
By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine ????????
Ivano-Frankivsk Russian terror continues to engulf peaceful cities across Ukraine with unprecedented violence. Yesterday, Moscows air force once again struck railway infrastructure in the Chernihiv region, forcing the national carrier Ukrzaliznytsia to deploy backup diesel locomotives for trains headed to Sumy due to a power outage in the Nizhyn section.
Twenty-four hours earlier, a barrage of Russian and Iranian drones hit Dnipro in broad daylight, damaging a medical center, a pediatric dental clinic, an apartment building, a dormitory, and a cultural center. One civilian was killed, and thirty others, including a 10-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl, were injured.
At the same time, another Russian FPV drone aimed directly at a Ukrainian civilian couple traveling in Sumy with their two children, killing the entire family. Another 54 similar attacks were recorded in that oblast, with no distinction made between military and civilian targets. As evening fell, 15 massive explosions shook Kharkiv, destroying a dozen homes in the Saltivka and Kyivskyj districts and setting several shopping malls covering a 2,800-square-meter area within the Barabashovo market ablaze. These were glide bombs, each containing at least 250 kg of explosives, intentionally launched against Europes largest open-air shopping center. Avideowe recorded from there for the YouTube channel website of the Italian newspaper La Ragione highlights the sheer intent of the attacks on that infrastructure, which has been hit on eight separate occasions since the start of the war.
Walking among the ruins of those pavilions after the second-to-last attack on that bazaar, we already explained before the summer thatthe goal of those who order such strikes is to destroy not only that massive civilian infrastructure but also the hundreds of jobs it creates, destroying just as many small businesses that support the countrys economy.
Throughout the night, the Russian Federation continued bombing the nearby Chuhuiv district yesterday, destroying a dozen homes and reducing more than 35 garages and as many cars to smoking metal. The number of injuries is difficult to determine, since rescue and firefighting operations are still ongoing at the time of this articles delivery, but at least eight civilians and a police officer are known to be in serious condition.
The bad weather has worsened the damage. It has been raining nonstop in Ukraine for days now, forcing volunteers and firefighters to rush to evacuate people trapped in rubble and others caught by floods.
In Odesa alone, nine deaths have been reported, with 362 last-minute rescues amid bombs and torrential rain.
Bogged down at the front, Russian troops continue to suffer losses on every side, unable to provide support to any of the contingents the Ukrainians have surrounded.
In that hell of mud and rubble, the time is kept by the nuclear clock of a power plant that has been disconnected from the grid for eight days.One of the secondary diesel generators supplying electricity to the Enerhodar plant held hostage by the Russians is broken, and the remaining ones have never functioned for so long,the Ukrainian President announced in an appeal aimed at underscoring the criticality of the situation.
The hope is that the one who has ended up bogged down at the head of an equally shut-down government will grasp this, precisely when concrete political decisions are needed.
The diplomatic approach has failed, and starting with the Tomahawk missiles, theres renewed talk of massive arms injections into Ukraine to make Putin understand that he has failed, in the only language he knows. This was clear from the beginning, butto please the current American administration, weve ended up stuck in a limbo of waiting and half-hearted decisions, with no progress for another nine months. What Ukraine cannot afford is for further political distraction in Washington to compromise Americas already fragile responsiveness to Russian aggression.
深陷泥濘、傾盆大雨與炸彈
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
來自烏克蘭的現場報道 ????????
Ivano-Frankivsk俄羅斯恐怖持續以前所未有的暴力襲擊著烏克蘭各地的和平城市。昨日，莫斯科的空軍再次襲擊了切爾尼希夫地區的鐵路基礎設施，迫使國家運輸公司烏克蘭鐵路公司（Ukrzaliznytsia）部署備用柴油機車，以應對尼任區的停電情況。
24小時前，俄羅斯和伊朗的無人機群在光天化日之下襲擊了第聶伯羅，炸毀了一個醫療中心、一個兒科牙科診所、一個公寓樓、一個宿舍和一個文化中心。 一名平民被打死，另有30人受傷，其中包括一名10歲的男孩和一名17歲的女孩。
（圖：阿拉在蘇梅報道，身處遭到俄軍摧毀的烏克蘭民用基礎設施。 這裏曾是一家包裝魚類的商業公司 版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
與此同時，另一架俄羅斯FPV無人機直接瞄準了一對帶著兩個孩子在蘇梅旅行的烏克蘭平民夫婦，殺死了全家四口。該州還遭受了另外54起類似襲擊事件，無差別針對軍事目標和民用目標。傍晚時分，15起大規模爆炸震動了哈爾科夫，摧毀了薩爾蒂夫卡和基輔區的十幾棟房屋，巴拉巴紹沃市場內占地2800平方米的幾個購物中心被燒毀。這些是滑翔炸彈，每個都含有至少250公斤的炸藥，瞄準歐洲最大的露天購物中心發射。我們從那裏為意大利報紙La Ragione的YouTube頻道網站錄製的一段影片，強調了對該基礎設施發動攻擊的真正意圖，自戰爭開始以來，該基礎設施已經遭到了八次不同的襲擊。
（圖：我錄製了哈爾科夫巴拉巴紹沃購物中心遭到俄軍嚴重襲擊後的影片 版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
在上次襲擊發生後，這些亭子全都變成了廢墟，在夏天之前，我們曾經解釋過，那些下令發動這些襲擊的人的目標不僅僅是摧毀大規模的民用基礎設施，還要摧毀它創造的數百個工作崗位，以及支撐國家經濟的眾多小企業。
昨天整晚，俄軍持續轟炸附近的楚胡伊夫區，摧毀了十幾所房屋，並將超過 35 個車庫以及許多汽車變成了冒煙的金屬殘骸。由於救援和消防行動仍在進行中，因此在本文交付時，傷亡人數仍難以確定，但已知至少有八名平民和一名警察受重傷。
（圖：Alla在哈爾科夫巴拉巴紹沃購物中心報道，該購物中心被俄羅斯聯邦襲擊了八次。它是歐洲最大的露天購物中心 版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
惡劣天氣加重了損失。烏克蘭已經連續幾天都在下雨，迫使誌願者和消防員趕去疏散被困在廢墟中的人和其他被洪水圍困的人們。
僅在敖德薩，就有9人死亡，在炸彈和暴雨中，有362人在最後一分鍾獲救。
（圖：俄羅斯人襲擊了敖德薩的一個火車站，當時該城市已經遭受了暴雨的侵襲）
俄羅斯軍隊在前線陷入困境，繼續遭受各方麵的損失，無法為被烏克蘭軍隊包圍的任何部隊提供支援。
在那個泥濘和瓦礫的煉獄中，時間由一個與電網斷開八天的發電廠的核鍾所凝固。烏克蘭總統在強調局勢的危急性的呼籲中宣布：向被俄羅斯人挾持的埃內霍達爾工廠供電的二級柴油發電機壞了，其餘的發電機從未運作過這麽久。
希望最終陷入同樣停擺的政府的主管會明白這一點，尤其是在需要做出具體的政治決策時。
外交手段已經失敗，從戰斧導彈開始，人們又開始談論大規模向烏克蘭注入武器，讓普丁明白他已經失敗，這是他唯一聽得懂的語言。這從一開始就很明顯，但為了取悅目前的美國政府，我們最終陷入了等待和半心半意的決策的困境，在過去九個月裏沒有取得任何進展。烏克蘭再也無法承受華盛頓方麵進一步的政治搖擺，綏靖美國對俄羅斯侵略的脆弱反應。
（圖：Alla在楚胡伊夫報道， 版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
