The Front Thats Not On Maps
By: Giorgio Provinciali
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Synelnykove To gauge the wars progress, simply take a walk around these areas. You would see that once-thriving and lively towns like Synelnykove, just forty kilometers from major cities like Dnipro (Ukraines third-largest city and industrial hub), are now turned into ghostly wastelands where military vehicles speed back and forth from the frontlines. Garbage bins spill over onto deserted streets, where every so often a small group of children can be seen chasing each other toward the nearest shelter, while the deep voice that accompanies the air raid sirens announces yet another Russian attack.ПОВ?ТРЯНА ТРИВОГА! ПОВ?ТРЯНА ТРИВОГА!!With each repetition, that serious, deep tone shifts into a plea:Take cover! Take cover, theres a violent air strike underway! Take cover!!
Despite that plea, the civilians inside the supermarket on the square of the local train station one of the few businesses in Synelnykove that hasnt closed its doors continue to move through the aisles as if nothing had happened. Christmas decorations are already displayed on those shelves, including lights, despite the fact that the very same supermarket is powered by internal combustion generators. The electricity in Synelnykove sometimes goes out for twenty-four hours at a time, and even simple tasks like paying by card in a store can take up to ten minutes. As part of a series of strikes targeting Ukrainian railway infrastructure, Russian aircraft recently struck the local train station, which is now almost completely covered in plywood. This is how, two days after the violent Russian attack on the Kamianske station, I found myself documenting an identical crime that very few in the West have reported.
Thanks to the forward-thinking decisions of the Zelensky government, which among its first actions was to invest in rebuilding Ukraines road network, Ukrainian military logistics have not been disrupted as the Russians would have liked. For these reasons, car transporters loaded with armored vehicles and fuel tankers are often seen moving smoothly on untouched roads, where just a few years ago the situation was very different.Transporting those loads from Lviv to Kramatorsk now takes less than 24 hours, whereas before that major change enforced by the current government, it took more than twice that long.
This has effectively saved Ukraine, preventing its paralysis during a critical moment.
Pokrovsk is a full 142 km away, and the southern front of Orikhiv is about the same distance. Despite this,in Synelnykove, one begins to breathe an air that only those who have experienced the front lines can perceive.Holdingthose bastions is crucialbecauseevery Russian advance on the front has brutal repercussions in the rear areasfor similar distances.Russian i.e., largely Chinese Geran drones now strike these areas almost daily, often followed by old Soviet-era glide bombs now equipped with turbojet engines again, Chinese capable of extending their range up to 200 km. These are inaccurate but devastating bombs, capable of destroying five-story buildings. Moscow uses them heavily in southern Ukraine to strike beyond Ukrainian defenses. In fact, in such areas, craters the size of soccer fields are often found near energy and transportation infrastructure.
If this is the situation 150 km from it, explaining how hot the front is is superfluous. In October alone, the Russians released more than 2,700 such glide bombs near Pokrovsk. Thats half as many as fell across all of Ukraine. Speaking for over an hour with a Ukrainian soldier who recently returned from that hell for a brief rest in this purgatory, I confirmed that Russian troops managed to infiltrate nearly 300 men into about half of that sector, without establishing their positions. Yesterday alone, they attempted to break out nearly 200 times once every fifteen minutes. Yet, the negligently absent media are reporting the opposite: the Russians have lightened the load on Pokrovsk to break the Ukrainian front in Zaporizhzhia. Another breakthrough narrated from afar by those who assume a map alone is enough to understand where the front is.
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作者：Giorgio Provinciali
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西梅尼克沃（Synelnykove）要了解戰爭的進展，隻需在這些地區走一走。你會發現，曾經繁榮熱鬧的城鎮如西梅尼克沃，距離第聶伯（烏克蘭第三大城和工業中心）僅四十公裏，現在已經變成鬼魅般的荒原，軍用車輛從前線來回飛速行駛。垃圾桶散布在荒蕪的街道上，不時可以看到幾個孩子追逐著跑向最近的掩體，而伴隨著空襲警報的低沉廣播聲宣布又一次俄羅斯的襲擊。ПОВ?ТРЯНАТРИВОГА！ПОВ?ТРЯНАТРИВОГА!!每次重複，那嚴肅、深沉的語調聽來都是一個懇請：快躲起來！快躲起來，有猛烈的空襲！快躲起來！！
盡管廣播上的懇請，火車站廣場上的超市裏這是西梅尼克沃為數不多沒有關閉的商鋪之一，仍有不少平民像往常一樣穿梭於貨架間。貨架上已經掛滿了聖誕裝飾品和燈飾，盡管這家超市依靠內燃發電機供電。西梅尼克沃的電力有時會中斷長達24小時，甚至在商店裏用卡付款這樣簡單的操作也可能需要耗費十分鍾。在對烏克蘭鐵路基礎設施係列打擊行動中，俄羅斯飛機最近轟炸了當地的火車站，而後者現在幾乎完全被膠合板覆蓋。就在俄羅斯瘋狂襲擊卡米安斯克火車站兩天後，我意識到自己在現場記錄了一件幾乎沒人報道的類似襲擊事件。
（圖：當Alla在為意大利報紙La Ragione作現場報道時，一個俄羅斯FPV無人機正在我們頭頂上盤旋版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
多虧澤連斯基政府的前瞻性決策，尤其是在重建烏克蘭道路網絡方麵的投資，使得烏軍的後勤工作並沒有如俄軍所願那樣受到幹擾。出於這些原因，裝載裝甲車輛和燃料油罐車的汽車運輸車，經常在未受破壞的道路上平穩行駛，而就在幾年前，情況非常不同。現在，從利沃夫到克拉馬托爾斯克的運輸時間不到24小時，而在現任政府進實施重大改革之前，這一距離通常需要兩倍以上的時間。
實際上，這極大地挽救了烏克蘭，在關鍵時刻避免了物流癱瘓。
（圖：我在一片被俄軍摧毀的工業區版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
波克羅夫斯克距離這裏正好142公裏，奧裏科夫南線也差不多是同樣的距離。盡管如此，在西梅尼克沃，人們開始呼吸到隻有經曆過前線的人才能感知到的空氣。守住這些堡壘至關重要，因為俄羅斯在前線的每一次推進，都會在類似範圍的後方地區帶來同樣的血腥後果。俄軍傑蘭無人機，主要是中國製造，現在幾乎每天都在襲擊這些地區，隨後通常是舊蘇聯時代的滑翔炸彈，現在配備了渦輪噴氣發動機也是中國製造的，能夠將其射程擴大到200公裏。這些炸彈精度不高，但破壞力巨大，能夠摧毀五層建築。莫斯科在烏南地區大量使用它們，攻擊防線以外的目標。事實上，在這些地區，常常能在能源和交通基礎設施附近找到像足球場那麽大的彈坑。
（圖像來源：Telegraf）
（圖：這就是俄羅斯聯邦對烏克蘭民用基礎設施的破壞行為版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
如果150公裏開外的情況已經是這樣，那前線的激烈程度已無需多言。僅在十月份，俄方就在波克羅夫斯克附近投下了超過2700枚滑翔炸彈，這隻是烏克蘭全境受到攻擊炸彈數量的一半。在與一名最近剛從地獄般的戰場返回、在這個煉獄中短暫休整的烏克蘭士兵長談一個多小時後，我確認俄軍已成功滲透了近300名士兵到該區域的約一半範圍內，卻未能建立起鞏固的陣地。僅昨天，他們就試圖突破近200次幾乎每十五分鍾一次。然而，那些疏忽缺席的的媒體卻在作相反的報道：俄軍減少了在波克羅夫斯克的軍力，以突破紮波羅熱的烏克蘭戰線。那些假設僅憑地圖就足以了解前線位置的人從遠處敘述了另一個突破。
（圖：我在烏克蘭西梅尼克沃火車站版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
