Compromised Leaders Still Ask Ukrainians For A Compromise
By:Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine ????????
Zaporizhzhia On February 15, 2022, then-US President Joe Bidendeclaredhimselfready to negotiate written agreementswith Vladimir Putin after German Chancellor Olaf Scholzmetwith the Russian dictator to offercompromisespreviously obtained from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The day before, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hadassuredthat Russian troops were already partially withdrawing from the western border with Ukraine. On February 16, the Russian Ministry of Defensepublishedimages of an allegedRussian withdrawal from Crimea, while both Zelensky and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenbergstatedthe opposite:Moscow is not withdrawing, it is simply bringing troops closer, and they have increased, not decreased. On February 17, Moscowdeclareditselfready to engage in serious dialogue,callingthemilitary scenariosevoked by Washingtondangerous and deplorableandrejectingasunfoundedthe accusations from the US and its European allies that it was seeking a pretext to invade Ukraine.
That intense day concluded with aspeechat the UN by then-U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was more explicit:Moscow challenges the international order and will attack Ukraine under the false pretext of a Russian genocide in Donbas.
Exactly four years later, Vladimir Putin, through his Deputy Foreign Minister addressed the United Nationscallingfor its governance of Ukraineafter the completion of the special military operationhe unleashed. Washington is clearly on his side, so much so that it wants to exclude its (former) European allies from what they insist on callingpeace negotiations. The international order, as we have understood it for 80 years, no longer exists. As European Commission Vice President Kaja Kallasobserved,it is precisely at the table of those alleged negotiations that Moscow achieves more than it ever did on the battlefield.
In January, the Russians occupied 245 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory. This figure is almost half that of December and January last year, and the trend is steadily declining: for comparison, last week they occupied 33 square kilometers of rubble, while the week before, 60.
Having set foot in Pokrovsk which is 50 kilometers from where they were 12 years ago and still outside the Donbas fortress belt Russian soldiers were ordered to kill all remaining civilians, following a pattern already seen in Bucha, Izium, Trostianets, and other martyred cities of Ukraine. The same explicit instructions were given in Zelenyj Haj and Myrnohrad, where Moscow is even parachuting in its best units, giving them carte blanche to search every house for the Ukrainian military personnel who, along with civilians, are putting up fierce resistance.
The directive to leave no one alive has been issued from above since 2022, underscoring Moscowsreadiness to engage in serious dialogue. This constant is repeatedly evident in therelentless targeting of the Ukrainian civilian population, which, despite the many world leaders who have come and gone over nearly five years, no one has managed to stop through so-called diplomacy.
Between Friday and Saturday, the Russian air force again bombed the town of Kramatorsk, killing four civilians. Around noon on Sunday, it struck a childrens hospital in Sumy, continuing to launch drones at half-hourly intervals against the children and medical personnel inside. On Monday, it again attacked a residential center in Kramatorsk, killing two 19-year-olds and their 8-year-old brother, who were staying with their mother and grandmother at home. It dropped a glide bomb on a house, destroying an entire family and killing a 44-year-old father and his 23-year-old son, while seriously injuring their 11-year-old brother, 16-year-old sister, and 42-year-old mother. In the Kharkiv region, another Russian attack on Monday killed two-year-old twins and their one-year-old sister, leaving their pregnant mother critically ill. Another attack destroyed the Novhorod-Siverskyj district administration building, and another struck the maternity clinic in the city from which I am reporting for this article, injuring mothers and newborns.
This is just the well-known and certainly incomplete list of horrors perpetrated by the Russians over the past weekend alone.
In the more than 1,450 days since, the Russian Federation has carried out approximately 2,000 documented attacks on Ukraines healthcare system, over 3,700 on its schools, and nearly 700 on religious institutions. It has left no energy infrastructure intact, leaving the Ukrainian population in freezing cold, without electricity, and often without water. It has illegally deported at least 19,000 minors.
Yesterday alone, here in Zaporizhzhia, the Russian occupiers launched 668 attacks on 32 inhabited settlements. In Sumy, they bombed 33. Not far from here, in Nikopol, they flew FPV drones 10 times in search of civilian targets.
The American delegation, comprising Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Finance Minister Scott Bessent, Jared Kushner, and White House Senior Advisor Josh Groenbau,describedthe meeting with the Russian delegation asproductive and constructiveandenthusiastic. Witkoff evenwrotethat Russia is working to ensure peace in Ukraine.
In response to Donald Trumps umpteenth demand forcompromises, ZelenskysaidUkraine has already made many, and the biggest of all is that Putin and his associates are not in prison.
A week from now will mark the fourth anniversary of the start of a full-scale nightmare Ukraine has endured for 12 years.
As it becomes increasingly clear that those who continue to use that vile refrain are compromised, the most important intelligence sources are converging on the fact thatthe Russian Federation is planning a new full-scale attack on Ukraine.
The ongoing blackouts severely damaged our houses heating system in Western Ukraine while we were in the Donbas.
Without electricity, the pump couldnt circulate the liquid while the fire was lit. As a result, the system caught fire, and the whole house was at risk of burning. Fortunately, it did not, but the whole system needs to be changed, and the house needs to be restored. Tubes are all bent, walls are blackened by haze, and the heating system doesnt work, requiring an entirely new system.
We are doing our best since Allas parents live there, but theres still a lot to work on here, too, as the people around us are in no better situation.
Were renewing our fundraising campaign and thanking everyone who joins us in helping us restore what Russia is destroying. Even a small donation helps. Well keep you updated on developments.
Thank you all, dear friends ????????
被妥協的領導人仍在要求烏克蘭人妥協
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
翻譯：旺財球球
烏克蘭前線報道????????
紮波羅熱2022年2月15日，當時的美國總統喬拜登在德國總理奧拉夫朔爾茨會見俄羅斯獨裁者並提出從烏克蘭總統弗拉基米爾澤連斯基處獲得的妥協後，宣稱自己已準備好就書麵協議與弗拉基米爾普京進行談判。前一天，俄羅斯外長謝爾蓋拉夫羅夫曾保證俄羅斯部隊已部分從與烏克蘭接壤的西部邊境撤出。2月16日，俄羅斯國防部發布了所謂從克裏米亞撤軍的影像，而澤連斯基與北約秘書長延斯斯托爾滕貝格則表示相反：莫斯科並未撤軍，而是在行近，而且兵力是增加了，不是減少了。2月17日，莫斯科宣布準備進行嚴肅對話，稱華盛頓所提出的軍事情形是危險且可悲的，並駁斥美歐盟友指控其借口入侵烏克蘭的說法為毫無根據。
那緊張的一天以時任美國國務卿安東尼布林肯在聯合國的演講畫上句號，他更為直白地表示：莫斯科挑戰國際秩序，並將以頓巴斯發生俄羅斯種族滅絕為虛假借口對烏克蘭發動進攻。
整整四年後，弗拉基米爾普京通過其副外長向聯合國發表講話，呼籲在他發動的特別軍事行動結束後對烏克蘭進行治理。華盛頓顯然站在他一邊，甚至希望將其（曾經的）歐洲盟友排除在他們堅持稱之為和平談判的進程之外。我們過去80年所理解的國際秩序已不複存在。正如歐盟委員會副主席卡婭卡拉斯所指出的，恰恰是在那些所謂談判的桌上，莫斯科得到的比它在戰場上得到的更多。
今年1月，俄軍占領了245平方公裏的烏克蘭領土。這個數字幾乎是去年十二月和一月的一半，且呈穩步下降趨勢：相比之下，上周他們占領了33平方公裏的廢墟，而前一周為60平方公裏。
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俄羅斯士兵踏入波克羅夫斯克後距他們12年前所在之地僅50公裏，且仍位於頓巴斯堡壘帶之外接到命令屠殺所有剩餘平民，這種模式此前已在布查、伊久姆、特羅斯蒂亞涅茨等烏克蘭受難城市中出現過。在澤列尼伊哈伊和米爾諾赫拉德俄軍也下達了同樣明確的指令，莫斯科甚至空降其精銳部隊，給予他們對每戶人家進行全麵搜查之全權許可，以尋找與平民一道頑強抵抗的烏克蘭軍人。
自2022年以來，上層已下達不留活口的指令，凸顯莫斯科準備進行嚴肅對話的真相。而這一常態通過對烏克蘭平民的持續無情打擊不斷顯現，盡管近五年間許多世界領導人來來去去，但沒有人能通過所謂外交阻止這種暴行。
周五至周六間，俄空軍再次轟炸了克拉馬托爾斯克鎮，造成四名平民死亡。周日午間，他們襲擊了蘇梅的一家兒童醫院，繼續以半小時一次的頻率發射無人機，對醫院內的兒童和醫護人員進行攻擊。周一，他們再次襲擊克拉馬托爾斯克的一個居民中心，導致兩名19歲的青年和他們的8歲弟弟遇難，三人當時與母親和祖母同住在家中。俄軍向一棟房屋投下一枚滑翔炸彈，摧毀了整個家庭，導致一名44歲父親和其23歲兒子死亡，另有11歲兄弟、16歲姐姐和42歲母親重傷。在哈爾科夫地區，周一的另一輪襲擊導致兩歲雙胞胎和他們的一歲妹妹死亡，孕母重傷危殆。另一次襲擊摧毀了諾夫霍羅德-西維爾斯基區行政大樓，另一枚則打中了我為本文報道的那座城市的產科診所，造成產婦和新生兒受傷。
以上僅是眾所周知且肯定不完整的清單，列舉的僅為俄軍上周末單獨實施的暴行。
在此後的1,450多天裏，俄羅斯聯邦對烏克蘭醫療係統的已記錄攻擊約有2,000起，對學校的攻擊超過3,700起，近700起針對宗教場所。沒有一處能源基礎設施幸免，導致烏克蘭民眾在嚴寒中失去供電，常常連水也斷供。至少有19,000名未成年人被非法驅逐。
僅昨天，在紮波羅熱，俄占領軍對32個有人居住的定居點發動了668次攻擊。在蘇梅，他們轟炸了33次。在此不遠的尼科波爾，他們使用FPV無人機10次，搜索民用目標。
（圖：我與Alla在烏克蘭紮波羅熱報道為此文做報道版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
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美方代表團由特使史蒂夫威特科夫、財政部長斯科特貝森特、賈裏德庫什納和白宮高級顧問喬什格倫鮑組成，他們稱與俄方代表團的會麵富有成效且具有建設性，並表示熱情洋溢。威特科夫甚至寫道，俄羅斯正在致力於確保烏克蘭的和平。
對唐納德川普再次提出的妥協要求，澤連斯基回應說烏克蘭已經做出了許多妥協，而最大的一項妥協則是普京及其同夥仍然沒有坐牢。
再過一周，將是烏克蘭經曆的這一場長達12年的全麵噩夢爆發的四周年。
隨著越來越清楚地看到那些仍在使用可憎陳詞濫調的人已被妥協，最關鍵的情報來源趨向一致：俄羅斯聯邦正在策劃對烏克蘭的新一輪全麵進攻。
（圖：我，在寫這篇文章之前，在烏克蘭紮波羅熱的一個庇護所附近????????版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
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持續的停電嚴重損壞了我們在烏克蘭西部的家中的供暖係統，而我們當時就在頓巴斯。
沒有電，點著的爐火無法通過水泵循環熱水。結果，係統起火，整個房子麵臨著燒毀的風險。幸而未被燒毀，但整個係統需要更換，房子也需要修複。管道都是歪的，牆壁被煙霧熏黑，供暖係統無法正常工作，需要徹底更換。
我們正在盡最大努力，因為Alla的父母住在那裏，但這裏還有許多工作要做，周圍的人處境也好不到哪兒去。
我們正在重啟籌款活動，感謝每一位支持我們修複被俄羅斯摧毀一切的朋友。即使是小額捐款也有幫助。我們會及時更新進展。
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