Blood On the Snow, And On The Horizon
By: Giorgio Provinciali
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Pavlohrad For five days, the civilian population of Vyshhorod, a satellite city of Kyiv, has been without water or heating. As I write this article, I continue to receive messages from friends and acquaintances desperate for help amid isolation and freezing temperatures (in some parts of Ukraine, the mercury has dropped more than 20 degrees below zero), while the Russian Federation continues to target Ukraines energy sector. Two violent Russian attacks have caused identical blackouts in Nizhyn and Chernihiv, forcing the national carrier Ukrzalisnytsia to temporarily limit rail traffic.
Mandatory evacuations have been imposed in 14 border villages in that region to avoid repeating themistakein Hrabivske, where civiliansrefusedevery invitation to evacuate and were later held hostage by the Russians after having overexposed and restricted Ukrainian military personnel stationed in those border areas of Sumy oblast.
As in Vyshhorod, the main problem is thatmost essential services depend on electricity, and the Russians continue to bomb those power plants daily. For these reasons, local authorities are seeking alternative methods to ensure heating and water supplies for residents of urban areas far from the front, while having no options other than evacuating areas the Russians are bombarding with FPV drones and mortar fire. Due to the bombing,as many as 470 residential buildings connected to the Kherson thermal power plant have been cut off.
Despite Vladimir Putins cynical statements including telling Donald Trump that he wants to see Ukraine win and is ready to help it by providing low-cost Russian electricity the Russians continue to target Ukrainian thermal power plants, making it impossible for technicians to repair them.
In case the Western world has forgotten,this is what Братская помощь (Russian: fraternal aid) is all about. Destroy, repress, leave to the cold, and starve to the point of breaking even the most resilient will, only to then lead people to beg for help from the same hand that killed, plundered, and annihilated.
With that term, Moscow justified direct military interventions in the Warsaw Pact countries during the Soviet era, as in Budapest in 1956 and Prague in 1968.
It should be remembered.
Especially to Italians, since the Conte governmentagreedin 2020 to send dubious Russian medical teams and supplies to Italian soil as part of an operation that Moscow called precisely that: fraternal aid, guaranteeing them access to Italian healthcare and IT infrastructure.
The Kherson example is emblematic: on December 3rd, the Russian Armed Forces carried out a carpet bombing of the citys largest thermal power plant. Three days later, they fired another hundred heavy artillery shells at the same facility, and on December 17th, they again bombarded it with drones and other missiles, also targeting Ukrainian rapid-response and rescue teams. Naftogaz offered stoves and alternative heating methods, and the Russians targeted those as well, even though they were providing humanitarian aid.
Through their spokesman in Washington, Donald Trump, top Russian officials have made it known that Moscow is willing to help the very Ukrainians from whom it has deprived everything, including humanitarian aid.
Although 45 settlements along the Kherson coast remain cold and freezing, the residents determination has remained undiminished, prompting top Ukrainian technicians to develop alternative solutions, the details of which have not been disclosed for security reasons.
Despite Donald Trumps continued assertion of faith in the good intentions of this centurys worst dictator, the Russians have continued to launch devastating attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure.
A total of 608 attacks targeted 25 settlements in Zaporizhia alone. Further east, they have overwhelmed the Dnipropetrovsk region, including the Nikopol and Pavlohrad areas, where I am writing.The blood of Ukrainian civilians now permeates the snow in so many villages along the road to Pokrovsk that further comment is superfluous. In Sumy Oblast, the Russians even attacked a car carrying bread. In Odesa, two civilian ships, Emmakris III and Captain Karam, were hit as they entered the port to load grain.
This scenario is reflected in the statements of European leaders who, after yet another round of consultations, claimed yesterday thatpeace is on the horizon.
Its unclear what horizon theyre looking at, given that the Baltic states are preparing to blow up the bridges on the border with Russia and Belarus.
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雪上的血，和地平線上的希望
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
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帕夫洛赫拉德在基輔的衛星城市維什霍羅德，居民已斷水斷暖五天。當我撰寫本文時，我不斷收到朋友和熟人發來的求助信息，他們在被隔絕中煎熬，忍受著嚴寒在烏克蘭的某些地方，溫度已經降到零下20多度，而俄羅斯聯邦還在不斷襲擊烏克蘭的能源部門。俄軍兩次猛烈的攻擊導致了尼任和切爾尼戈夫停電，迫使國家鐵路公司烏克蘭鐵路暫時限製了鐵路交通。
在該地區的14個邊境村莊已實施了強製撤離，以避免重蹈哈拉比夫斯克的錯誤，在那裏，平民拒絕了所有撤離請求，後來被俄羅斯人劫持扣為人質，同時導致駐紮在蘇梅州邊境地區的烏克蘭軍人的行動遭到過度暴露和限製
（圖：今天的庫皮揚斯克，經曆了俄羅斯和平後的景象照片由烏克蘭武裝部隊提供）
如維什霍羅德一樣，主要問題在於大多數基本服務依賴於電力，而俄羅斯人每天仍在轟炸這些發電廠。基於這些原因，當地政府正在尋找替代方法以確保遠離前線的城市居民的供暖和供水，而別無選擇，隻能撤離遭俄方用FPV無人機和迫擊炮轟炸的地區。由於轟炸，赫爾鬆熱電廠相連的多達470座住宅樓已被切斷電力供應。
盡管弗拉基米爾普京發表了驚世申明包括告訴唐納德川普他希望看到烏克蘭獲勝，並準備通過提供低成本的俄羅斯電力來幫助烏克蘭但俄羅斯人仍繼續襲擊烏克蘭的熱電廠，導致技術人員無法修複這些設施。
（圖：我站在一處被俄羅斯聯邦摧毀的烏克蘭民用基礎設施旁版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
如果西方世界已經忘記了，這就是Братскаяпомощь（俄語：兄弟援助）的真諦。摧毀、壓製、讓人們置身寒冷、讓人挨餓，甚至摧毀最堅韌的意誌，隻是為了讓人向那隻曾殺戮、掠奪和滅絕的手乞求幫助。
正是在這個術語的幌子下，莫斯科為在蘇聯時代對華沙條約國家的直接軍事幹預辯護，例如1956年的布達佩斯和1968年的布拉格一樣。
這一點應該被銘記。
尤其是對意大利人而言，因為孔特政府在2020年同意向意大利派遣可疑的俄羅斯醫療隊和物資，作為莫斯科稱之為兄弟援助的一部分，保證他們能進入意大利的醫療和IT基礎設施。
（圖：另一個被俄羅斯聯邦摧毀的烏克蘭民用基礎設施版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
赫爾鬆的例子是典型的：12月3日，俄羅斯武裝部隊對該市最大的熱電廠進行了地毯式轟炸。三天後，他們又對同一設施發射了一百多枚重型炮彈，12月17日，他們再次用無人機和其他導彈轟炸該設施，同時也襲擊烏克蘭的快速反應和救援隊。納夫托加茲國油公司提供了爐具和替代供暖方法，而俄羅斯人也將這些作為目標進行了攻擊，盡管這些是人道主義援助。
通過他們在華盛頓的發言人唐納德川普，俄羅斯高級官員表示，莫斯科願意幫助那些被它自己剝奪了一切，包括人道主義援助，的烏克蘭人。
盡管赫爾鬆沿岸的45個定居點依然寒冷刺骨，但居民們的決心依然堅定，這促使烏克蘭頂級技術人員開發替代解決方案，具體細節出於安全原因予披露。
盡管唐納德川普持續宣稱對這世紀最惡劣獨裁者的善意充滿信心，俄羅斯人卻繼續對烏克蘭的民用基礎設施發動毀滅性攻擊。
僅在紮波羅熱，針對25個居民定居點的攻擊總數就達608次。進一步向東，他們對第聶伯羅彼得羅夫斯克地區的攻擊愈發猛烈，包括我所在的尼科波爾和帕夫洛赫拉德地區。烏克蘭平民的鮮血浸透了通往波克羅夫斯克道路上的許多村莊的積雪中，進一步的評論已顯得多餘。在蘇梅州，俄羅斯甚至攻擊了一輛載著麵包的汽車。在敖德薩，兩艘民用船隻Emmakris III和Captain Karam在駛入港口裝載糧食時遭到襲擊。
這一情況在歐洲領導人的聲明中有所體現，他們在又一次磋商後，昨天宣稱和平即將來臨。
鑒於波羅的海國家正準備炸毀與俄羅斯和白俄羅斯的邊境橋梁，我們不能不對他們所看到的地平線感到困惑。
（圖：經曆了俄羅斯和平後，目前的庫皮揚斯克照片由烏克蘭武裝部隊提供????????）
