Kramatorsk Does Not Forget
By:Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine ????????
Kramatorsk, Donetsk At dawn on Sunday, the Russian air force launched a heavy attack on the city center, dropping two 250-kilogram KAB guided aerial bombs. In the immediate vicinity, we documented howthe attack deliberately targeted civilians, killing a 77-year-old woman, wounding four others including an Inter TV Channel journalist and affecting a total of eleven buildings in an area of approximately 25.000 square meters in the city center. About four hours later, around 9:00 a.m., a Russian drone struck a civilian car traveling along the main road connecting Kramatorsk to Sloviansk. Around 2:30 p.m., another Russian drone, equipped with high explosive potential, struck a gas station directly along that road, causing a massive explosion.
More generally,explosions are occurring in and around Kramatorsk every minute, marking the timing of a nightmare people are reliving for the second time.
It was preciselyin February 10, when exactly eleven years ago the Russianslaunched32 missiles against the city center, killing 17 people and wounding 60. The Russian invasion of Ukraine had already been underway for a year, Crimea had already been illegally occupied and then unilaterally annexed by the Russian Federation, and Malaysia Airlines flight MH-17 had already beenshotdown by a Russian Buk missile, killing all 298 civilians on board most of them Dutch yetthe European response was thesigningof preliminary agreements for the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, marked a few months later to strengthen the EUs economic ties with Moscow.
It was a huge strategic error, which consolidated Moscows structural impunity, legitimizing its systematic use of violence against civilians as a political tool.
Since then,every European concession, every energy compromise disguised as pragmatism, has served as a strategic multiplier of Russian aggression, financing the war, normalizing its methods, and delaying its containment.
In Kramatorsk today, this dynamic is not a geopolitical abstraction dismissed as a mistake but a concrete sequence of craters, bodies, and gutted homes.The presence of Russian FPV drones makes life impossible, keeping the population in a state of permanent terror.Yesterday, seeing us film a few frames of that destruction, a civilian opened a hole in the wooden boards he had used to replace the glass in his homes windows, urging us to be careful becauseno place is safe and no time is neutral. He was at first wearing a down jacket and gloves because since the occupiers destroyed the local heating plant on the evening of January 11th, the management company has been forced to drain the water from the heating networks, leaving homes like this one freezing.
Faced with the first missiles in Kramatorsk, the European Union chose to hope for analysis rather than responsibility. Indignation rather than interests. Today we pay for that fracture, finding ourselves prey to infernal technological means that Moscow did not possess and that it now produces or purchases in quantities far beyond the entire Unions ability to sustain.The bombs falling on Donbas for 12 years are not just Russian: they are the product of a long chain of Western decisions that have prioritized gas over deterrence, contracts over security, and the illusion of stability over conflict prevention.
Yesterday evening, the Russians struck Kramatorsk with incendiary aerial bombs, flattening at least three dozen residential buildings and a school. KABs, FABs, and drones continued to explode within an increasingly gray area linking the center of Kramatorsk to the front line. Nearby Druzhkivka, where wespentperhaps the worst night of the entire war, is now in the midst of an evacuation. During the evacuation of a nine-story residential building in that now-former city south of Kramatorsk, a Ukrainian rescuer died while helping an elderly woman into her car: a Russian drone operator deliberately targeted the passenger-side roof with his FPV. The apartments of nearly all the buildings are ablaze. The cars in the courtyards are torn apart.The use of drones as selective artillery now allows the Russians to strike those spaces one by one, making them incompatible with life.
Theres no trace of what were writing in the major Italian newspapers because since a Russian drone operatorkilledtwo journalists and Freedom TV on October 23rd, no one has come to report on life in Kramatorsk. As of this writing, the outside temperature is 13 degrees below zero, with temperatures expected to drop to -25C. The city has been in darkness for 20 hours straight, and spotting an FPV drone is made even more difficult by the hum of internal combustion generators, some of which were donated by the European Union. Meanwhile, according to datareleasedby the Bruegel analytical center andreportedby the international press,January 2026 also set a new all-time high for the EU in Russian gas and LNG purchases: 2.276 billion cubic meters of the latter alone. Thats more than in any previous month and significantly higher than January 2025.
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, friends ????????
克拉馬托爾斯克不會忘記
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
翻譯：旺財球球
烏克蘭前線報道????????
克拉馬托爾斯克，頓涅茨克周日黎明，俄羅斯空軍對市中心發動了猛烈攻擊，投下兩枚250公斤的KAB製導航炸彈。我們在附近記錄到，這次襲擊故意針對平民，造成一名77歲婦女死亡，另有四人受傷包括一名Inter電視台記者市中心約2.5萬平方米範圍內共有11棟建築受損。大約四小時後，約上午9點，一架俄製無人機襲擊了沿克拉馬托爾斯克通往斯洛維揚斯克主幹道行駛的一輛民用汽車。下午約2:30，另一架具備高爆能力的俄製無人機直接襲擊了該公路沿線上的一座加油站，導致巨大爆炸。
更普遍地說，克拉馬托爾斯克及周邊每一分鍾都有爆炸發生，人們正在再次經曆一場噩夢。
（圖：俄羅斯是一個恐怖主義國家）
正是在2月10日，恰好十一年前，俄方向市中心發射了32枚導彈，造成17人死亡、60人受傷。彼時俄羅斯對烏克蘭的入侵已持續一年，克裏米亞已被俄方非法占領並單方麵吞並，馬航MH-17客機也已被俄製布克導彈擊落，機上298名平民全部遇難大多數為荷蘭人但歐洲的回應卻是簽署北溪2號天然氣管道的前期協議，數月後又推進以加強歐盟與莫斯科的經濟聯係。
這是一個重大的戰略錯誤，鞏固了莫斯科的結構性有恃無恐，使其將針對平民的係統性暴力作為一種政治工具的使用合法化。
從那時起，每一次歐洲的讓步、每一次以務實之名的能源妥協，都成了俄羅斯侵略的戰略倍增器，為戰爭提供資金、使其手段常態化並推遲了對其的遏製。
（圖：截至我撰寫本文當日，克拉馬托爾斯克的氣溫Apple天氣應用）
在克拉馬托爾斯克，這一動態並非可被歸為錯誤的地緣政治抽象，而是一連串具體的彈坑、屍體與被掏空的房屋。俄方FPV無人機的出現讓生活變得無法忍受，使民眾長期生活在恐懼之中。昨天，當我們拍攝那片廢墟的幾幀影像時，一位平民，他在用木板上開了個洞代替窗玻璃，提醒我們小心，因為沒有什麽地方是安全的，也沒有什麽時刻是中立的。他起初穿著羽絨服和手套，因為自從占領者在1月11日晚毀壞了當地供熱廠後，管理公司被迫把供暖管網的水排空，像他家一樣的房子都冷若冰窖。
（圖：文中所述的這位男子在克拉馬托爾斯克看到我們時，打開了窗，給了我們一些忠告，脫下手套並在我們的旗幟上簽名版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
麵對克拉馬托爾斯克的首次被導彈襲擊，歐盟選擇了寄希望於分析而非追究責任，選了憤慨而非自身利益。今天我們為那一裂痕付出代價，（歐盟）成為莫斯科所掌握並現已大規模生產或購買的地獄般技術手段的獵物這些手段早已超出整個歐盟所能承受的規模。十二年來落在頓巴斯的炸彈不僅僅是俄羅斯製造的：它們是西方長期決策鏈的產物，這些決策把天然氣置於威懾之上，把合同置於安全之上，把穩定的幻想置於衝突預防之上。
昨晚，俄方用燃燒彈襲擊了克拉馬托爾斯克，至少夷平了三十多棟住宅樓和一所學校。KAB、FAB和無人機在連接克拉馬托爾斯克市中心與前線的日益擴展的灰色地帶內持續爆炸。在附近的德魯日科夫卡，我們在那兒度過了整個戰爭中可能是最糟糕的一夜，目前正進行撤離。在那座曾經位於克拉馬托爾斯克南部的城市撤離一棟九層居民樓時，一名烏克蘭救援人員在將一位老人扶上車時犧牲：一名俄方無人機操作者用其FPV故意瞄準並打中了乘客側車頂。幾乎所有樓宇的公寓都在燃燒，院子裏的汽車被炸毀。無人機作為選擇性火炮的使用讓俄方能夠逐一攻擊這些空間，使之不再適於居住。
我們所發的報道在意大利主流報紙上看不到一絲蹤影，因為自從10月23日一名俄方無人機操作者擊斃兩名記者和自由電視（Freedom TV）後，就再無人前來報道克拉馬托爾斯克的生活。截至撰稿時，室外溫度為零下13度，預計將降至零下25C。該市已連續20小時處於黑暗之中，而內燃發電機的嗡鳴使得發現FPV無人機更加困難其中一些發電機由歐盟捐贈。與此同時，根據布魯格爾（Bruegel）分析中心發布並被國際媒體報道的數據，2026年1月歐盟從俄羅斯購入的天然氣及液化天然氣創下曆史新高：僅液化天然氣就達22.76億立方米。這比以往任何一個月份都多，且顯著高於2025年1月。
（圖：Alla，我們在克拉馬托爾斯克為本文報道時????????版權所有）
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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。
感謝大家，朋友們。
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