原文鏈接：https://medium.com/@giorgioprovinciali/a-war-denied-35ad204b74e0?sk=2eb354342d4ea37b53031d8ff68566f4
A War Denied
By:Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine ????????
Dnipro These days, in 2022, there was talk of recognizing, while today there is talk of normalizing. Yet,the geopolitical logic remains the same: transforming might into right.
After a lengthy historical excursus identical to the onegiventhe day before yesterday in Geneva by his emissary Vladimir Medinsky Russian dictator Vladimir Putinannouncedon February 21, 2022, the decision to recognize the independence and sovereignty of the Donetsk and Luhansk Peoples Republics. This was the prelude to a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which materialized within hours thanks to the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance with the Russian Federationsignedby the leaders of those chimerical enclaves.
During a lengthy speech, historical falsehoods and fabrications abounded: Putin went so far as toclaimthat NATO weapons and troops were already deployed in Ukraine against Moscow and that Kyiv had alreadylostits sovereignty, becoming a servant of Western masters. Hepointedthe finger at the allegedingratitudeof its neighbor in the face of thezealous solidarityof the Russian people, who supposedly shouldered Ukrainian debts when the opposite occurred: Ukraine never succumbed to that blackmail,demandinga list of its share of the former USSRs assets and liabilities.
Over the years, we have reported on these pages that those phantom Western wunderwaffen did not exist (if only they had!), along with the valuable testimonies of people of the highest integrity, such as David Piguet one of the ten regional directors and team leaders of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine whoconfirmedthat their reports did not mention thediscrimination against Russian-speakers in Ukrainethat Putinfantasizedwas instead takingthe form ofgenocide.
There is no trace of this in the reports of other international organizations, such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Council of Europe. The reason is simple:it never happened, and fact-checkers from major global media outlets confirmed it in the years that followed. Too late.
In a televised address to the nation that same day, Putinclaimedthat Ukrainian society was neo-Nazi (while right-wing and ultranationalist parties failed to win a single seat in the 2019 parliamentary elections) and that Russia had set itself the goal ofdemilitarizing and denazifyingUkraine.
Except by sending real Nazis like Dmitri Wagner Utkin a military commander with the SS symbol tattooed on both sides of his neck among the Russian troops entering Donbas in full force.
The parallel with todays times is less rhetorical than it seems.
The logic is more sophisticated but similar, because it no longer speaks of the recognition ofindependencebut ofspecial economic zones,demilitarized areas, andtransitionalorjoint civilianadministration.
The essence, however, is the same:transforming a military reality into a political one.
When RussiainvadedCrimea in 2014, it presented the world with a de facto situation on the ground and then asked the international community to adapt. Back then, it constructed the moral legitimacy of its intervention with unproven pretexts, such as the alleged genocide of Russian-speaking people. With Washingtons complicity, it now seeks to construct the moral legitimacy of partition by claiming that it is time forrealistic compromises. Itdemandselections under martial law,insistingthat the Ukrainian people are no longersovereignbut subservient to a regime, referring to this as to aquestionable legitimacy.
The language is more diplomatic, of course, because the Russian delegation no longer speaks ofdenazificationbut ofprogressive demilitarization, butthe essence is the same: reducing Ukraines capacity for self-defense while Russia maintains its offensive structure. Putin today doesnt need immediate formal recognition because functional recognition is enough.No one needs to explicitly state this is Russia; its enough that no one says this is Ukraine anymore.
Its the same principle that led to the freezing of the front in 2015 under theMinsk agreements:a line of contact that became a political line.
We know how it ended.
On February 21, 2022, Putin violated history to construct the legal basis for the invasion. Four years later, his emissaries in Geneva did the same to establish the basis for its irreversibility.
The international communitys reaction at the time was swift on the declarative level but less uniform on the structural one.The special military operation was labeled a war, yet it was not fought as such.
Putin did the opposite, waginga total warin the most classic sense of the term and progressively expanding its objectives and theater of operations. It was a thoughtful choice that avoided the consequences of a formal declaration of war and the initial general mobilization, while allowing him to maintain a semblance of internal normality and limit the perception of the conflict abroad.
The paradox is that while Moscow rejected the word war, it was the international community itself that defined it as such.
Today, we are witnessinga reversal of perspective, as many international actors treat the war as if it were a frozen crisis, a manageable territorial dispute, or a conflict that can be contained with administrative tools, whilePutin himself now openlycallsitwar.They speak ofnormalization,final settlement, andregional stability, usinga vocabulary more reminiscent of a political process than of a military reality.
Late in the evening of February 20, 2022, then-British Prime Minister Boris JohnsontoldFrench President Emmanuel Macron:Putin wants a diplomatic solution.
Today, the president of the United States isusingthe same phrase.
Two million lives lost later,yet the crux remains the same: formally recognize the war but treat it as a fait accompli to be administered.
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 ????????
被否認的戰爭
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
翻譯：旺財球球
烏克蘭前線報道????????
第聶伯如今，在2022年有人談及承認，而今天人們談起的是常態化。然而，地緣政治邏輯依然如故：把強權變為正當。
在進行了一段冗長的曆史性回顧之後與前天在日內瓦由其特使弗拉基米爾梅金斯基所做的回顧如出一轍俄羅斯獨裁者弗拉基米爾普京於2022年2月21日宣布決定承認頓涅茨克和盧甘斯克人民共和國的獨立與主權。這成為對烏克蘭進行全麵入侵的前奏；數小時內，這場入侵得以實現，得益於這些虛構飛地的領導人與俄羅斯聯邦簽署的友好與互助條約。
在一場冗長的演講中，曆史謬誤與捏造比比皆是：普京竟聲稱北約的武器和部隊已部署在烏克蘭，對準莫斯科，並稱基輔已喪失主權，成為西方主人的仆從。他指責其鄰國的所謂忘恩負義，而在俄羅斯人民熱忱的團結麵前理應承擔烏克蘭債務，事實上情況正好相反：烏克蘭從未屈服於那種勒索，而是要求列出其在前蘇聯資產與負債中應分得的份額。
（圖：Alla在烏克蘭頓巴斯的戰區版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
多年來，我們在本欄中報道過，那些西方幻影般的神兵並不存在（（要是有就好了！），並刊登了許多高誠信人士的寶貴證詞，例如戴維皮蓋前任歐安組織駐烏克蘭特別監測任務的十位區域主任與組長之一他證實他們的報告中並未提及普京所幻想的對俄語使用者的歧視，更不可能演變成種族滅絕。
聯合國人權事務高級專員辦公室與歐洲委員會等其他國際組織的報告中也未見此類記載。原因很簡單：這從未發生，而主要國際媒體的事實核查在隨後數年也證實了這一點。為時已晚。
同日，在一次全國電視講話中，普京聲稱烏克蘭社會是新納粹（盡管右翼和極端民族主義政黨在2019年議會選舉中未贏得任何席位），並宣稱俄羅斯的目標是非軍事化和去納粹化烏克蘭。
然而，現實是俄羅斯派出了真正的納粹分子，如德米特裏瓦格納烏特金這位軍隊指揮官脖頸兩側紋有納粹黨衛軍（SS）標誌與大批俄軍一道進入頓巴斯。
（圖：德米特裏瓦格納烏特金照片來源：La Regione）
與今日的情形相比，這種類比並非看起來那麽具有修辭性。
邏輯更為複雜但相似，因為如今不再談論承認獨立，而是談論特別經濟區、非軍事區以及過渡或聯合民事管理。
然而本質相同：把一種軍事現實轉化為政治現實。
2014年俄羅斯入侵克裏米亞時，它向世界呈現了一個既成事實，然後要求國際社會適應。那時，它用未經證實的借口構建了其幹預的道德合法性，例如所謂對俄語人群的種族滅絕指控。如今在華盛頓的縱容下，它試圖通過聲稱該到現實的妥協之時來構建分割的道德正當性。它要求戒嚴下的選舉，堅持稱烏克蘭人民不再主權獨立，而是服從於一個政權，並將其稱為值得質疑的合法性。
措辭當然更為外交化，因為俄方代表不再談論去納粹化，而改稱漸進式非軍事化，但實質相同：削弱烏克蘭的自衛能力，同時俄羅斯保留其進攻性結構。普京如今不再需要立刻的形式承認，因為功能性的承認已足夠。無需有人明確宣稱這是俄羅斯；隻要沒人再說這是烏克蘭就夠了。
這正是導致2015年在明斯克協議下戰線被凍結的邏輯：接觸線變成了政治線。
我們知道其結局如何。
2022年2月21日，普京篡改曆史以構建入侵的法律依據。四年後，他在日內瓦的特使們重複了同樣的把戲以確立其不可逆性的基礎。
當時國際社會的反應在宣言層麵迅速，但在結構性層麵則不夠統一。那場特別軍事行動被貼上戰爭標簽，然而並未以戰爭方式來應對。
普京采取了相反的策略，以最經典意義發動了一場全麵戰爭，並逐步擴大其目標與作戰範圍。這是一個深思熟慮的選擇：避免了正式宣戰和最初的大規模動員隨之而來的後果，同時又讓他得以維持一種內部常態的假象並限製衝突在國外的認知。
矛盾在於：莫斯科拒絕戰爭一詞，而國際社會自己卻將其定義為戰爭。
（圖：我們在烏克蘭基輔錄製了這段錄像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
如今，我們目睹著視角的逆轉，許多國際行為體將這場戰爭視為一個已凍結的危機、一個可控的領土爭端或一個可用行政手段遏製的衝突，而普京本人現在卻公開稱之為戰爭。他們談論常態化、最終解決和地區穩定，使用的詞匯更像是政治進程而非軍事現實。
2022年2月20日深夜，當時的英國首相鮑裏斯約翰遜對法國總統埃馬紐埃爾馬克龍說：普京想要一個外交解決方案。
如今，美國總統也在使用同樣的措辭。
兩百萬條生命已逝，關鍵仍然如故：在形式上承認戰爭，卻把它當作一個可被管理的既成事實來處理。
（圖：我在烏克蘭頓巴斯戰區????????版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
***
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。
感謝大家，朋友們。
????????如果你相信我們的工作，請支持我們????????????
在過去的三年裏，我們一直在烏克蘭戰爭的各個前線進行報道
https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/9mFvpzKUrU
