With a Caravan of Humanitarian Aid Moving Toward the Heart of the War
By: Giorgio Provinciali
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Khmelnytskyi While most media coverage focuses on the flotilla intercepted en route to Gaza by the Israeli navy, a group of Italian volunteers has set out to reach the front lines of a war that is perhaps too quiet in the streets of Italy, providing concrete and truly essential humanitarian aid.
We met them in Khmelnytskyi, a city that has experienced relentless attacks since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, causing frequent power and water outages in several areas, damaging a dozen skyscrapers and three schools, and injuring multiple civilians and killing one rescuer.
Following Antonino Alfio Moschetto, an Italian businessman in Ukraine who was later forced to flee the bombings, we met Dr. Marco Sarboraria, an anesthesiologist who had traveled from Aosta with Silvio Gasparella and Roberto Sangiorgio; Carlo Ferrari from Florence (whom we had already met during previous operations supporting the Ukrainian resistance); Gianpiero Cavarero from Cuneo; and little Dante, Moschettos four-year-old son and the groups mascot. They drove a support vehicle and five ambulances purchased thanks to the generous contributions of organizations such as the Aosta Valley Community Foundation, the Chornobyl Childrens Rights Forum, Roberto Benelli, and the Lunigiana Pontremoli Rotary Club, as well as the Ukrainian parish communities in Italy coordinated by Father Yuriy Ivanyuta.The reason is simple: as Moschetto who, in addition to living in this city for a long time, has led more than 60 similar humanitarian missions knows well,Khmelnytskyi has been severely impacted by the Russians, especially its hospital infrastructure. The broader emergency facing the Ukrainian healthcare system is such that it requires diverting many medical vehicles and equipment to areas closer to the fighting. With him and Chaplain Vitaly Futorskyi, who coordinates similar humanitarian missions, we visited the local hospital, damaged by a violent Russian attack that has devastated several other private and residential buildings this year, killing three civilians.
As we reported on these pages, a few months earlier,a swarm of Russian drones had targeted the area of the local nuclear power plant, marking one of the most critically important moments of the war on the night between October 25 and 26, 2024: clear proof thatPutin considers even those highly sensitive civilian infrastructures as strategic targets for blackmailing West.
Due to that attack which severely damaged local power lines, 1,860 households in the Slavuta and Netishyn districts of this region were completely disconnected. Eleven apartment buildings, nine private homes, two schools, an administrative building, a shop, a fuel depot, and several cars were destroyed.
Pausing with the Italian volunteers in front of one of those ruins to take some photographs, we noticed that the already valuable convoy of ambulances they were about to deliver contained an equally precious cargo: medical devices including a complete ultrasound scanner, medications, clothing, food, and 150 shoulder and knee prostheses with corresponding operating kits for use in delicate surgeries to restore function and dignity to those who suffered the most serious consequences of those bombings.
The presence of courageous Italians like those we met today in Khmelnytskyi demonstrates how important it is to stay focused on initiatives like theirs becauseonly by listening to and working with those who truly experience war can we make sure that the necessary aid gets to the right place at the right time.
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作者：喬治普羅溫恰利
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Khmelnytskyi雖然大部分媒體報道集中在被以色列海軍攔截的前往加沙的艦隊上，但一群意大利誌願者正前往前線提供具體且真正重要的人道主義援助，可能因為意大利街頭的對他們來說太安靜了。
我們在赫姆尼察基與他們相遇，這座城市自俄羅斯全麵入侵烏克蘭以來遭遇了持續不斷的攻擊，導致多個區域頻繁停電斷水，十幾棟摩天大樓和三所學校被毀，造成多名平民受傷，一名救援人員遇難。
跟隨烏克蘭的意大利商人安東尼諾阿爾菲奧莫斯切托--他後來被迫逃離轟炸，我們見到了麻醉師馬可薩博拉裏亞博士和同樣來自奧斯塔的西爾維奧加斯帕雷拉和羅伯托桑吉奧，來自佛羅倫薩的卡洛法拉利（我們在之前支持烏克蘭抵抗的行動中見過他），來自庫尼奧的吉安皮耶羅卡瓦雷羅，以及莫斯切托四歲的兒子、團隊的吉祥物小達尼爾。他們駕駛一輛援助車和五輛救護車，這些車輛均由奧斯塔穀社區基金會、切爾諾貝利兒童權利論壇、羅伯托貝內利和盧尼吉亞納蓬特雷莫利扶輪社、以及尤裏伊萬尤塔神父協調的意大利烏克蘭教區社區等組織的慷慨捐助。
原因很簡單：正如莫謝托這位在赫姆尼察基居住了很長時間、並領導過60餘次類似人道任務所了解的，赫姆尼察基受俄羅斯攻擊的影響嚴重，尤其是其醫院基礎設施。烏克蘭醫療保健係統麵臨的更廣泛的緊急情況是，它需要將許多醫療車輛和設備轉移到離戰區更近的地方。
在他和維塔利富托斯基牧師（負責協調類似人道主義行動）的陪同下，我們參觀了當地醫院，該醫院被俄羅斯猛烈襲擊破壞，今年俄軍的襲擊還摧毀了其他多棟私人和住宅建築，造成三名平民死亡。
（圖：我，在文章描述的救護車前，版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
正如我們在此刊報到的，幾個月前，一群俄國無人機定向襲擊了當地核電站區，使2024年10月25日至26日夜間成為戰爭最重要的時刻之一：充分證明普京將高度敏感的民用基礎設施視為威脅西方的戰略目標。
那次襲擊嚴重破壞了當地的電力線路，使斯拉夫塔和涅蒂尚地區的1860戶家庭完全斷電。十一座公寓樓、九棟私人住房、兩所學校、一座行政樓、一家商店、一處燃料倉庫以及數輛汽車被摧毀。
（圖，意大利誌願者正在從救護車上卸載醫療設備版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
我們在一處廢墟前與意大利誌願者們合影時注意到，他們即將交付的本身彌足珍貴的救護車車隊滿載著同樣珍貴的貨物：包括一台完整的超聲掃描儀的醫療設備、藥品、衣物、食物，以及150個肩膝義肢和相應的精細手術包，用於修複傷者遭受的這些爆炸嚴重後果引致的功能和尊嚴受損。
今日在赫姆尼察基遇到的這些勇敢的意大利人，展示了保持專注於像他們這樣行動的重要性，因為隻有傾聽並與那些真正經曆戰爭的人合作，我們才能確保必要的援助及時、到達正確的地點。
（圖：從左到右：我、維塔利富托斯基牧師、卡洛法拉利、安東尼諾阿爾菲奧莫斯切托版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
