The Normalization Of Terror
By:Giorgio Provinciali
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Kherson The images we captured in this oblast in our latest video report available on this newspapers YouTube channel are horrifying. Even on the rubble of Khersons already destroyed villages,Russian drones are raining down an impressive number of leaf mines. These explosives are indistinguishable from foliage and rocks, making them deadly and hard to detect.
While we were filming, Ukrainian air defenses were trying to shoot down dozens of these vectors of death. Unpunished by the international community, the Russian Federation continues to carry out a deadly campaign that spares no one: civilians of all ages including many children are daily torn apart by kamikaze FPV drones piloted from the opposite bank of the Dnipro and by the mines they drop.
Around 7 a.m. on Monday, March 16, one of these deadly drones targeted a car moving through the city center with a 67-year-old man inside. Moments after the attack, a second drone flew over the area, targeting the rescuers as they tried to extract the badly disfigured body of the man to save his life. Not far from the city center, a UAV with more explosive power hit a moving bus full of people in broad daylight. Nineteen people died, including a 17-year-old teenager. Just moments after we passed through the village of Muzykivka, another Russian drone struck a minibus, killing more civilians. The images are so disturbing that they clash withsocial media rules that allow vast amounts of Russian disinformation to spread but prevent sharing its devastating effects.
In nearby Mykolaiv, Russian drone pilots attacked an ambulance rushing through the streets of Kutsurubska, disfiguring the driver and a doctor on board. Other Russian munitions damaged a school and an apartment building, repeatedly targeting them day and night. Others hit the community of Ochakiv seven times. One was shot down by the Ukrainian ППО just as we were recording footage between the Kherson and Mykolaiv areas.
Meanwhile, in the Kharkiv region, remote Russian Federation killers attacked a bus near the village of Nova Oleksandrivka, killing one person and injuring four. In the same community of Velykoburlutskyj, in the Kupiansk district, the Russian army had earlier struck a medical car moving through the streets of Chervona Khvylia, killing a doctor and a nurse and seriously wounding another healthcare worker. Also in Kharkiv, the latest Russian attack on the city killed an elementary school teacher, her son, and another young girl, who was found next to her mothers lifeless body.
In the past few hours, Russian air forces dropped a 500-kg bomb on the center of Kramatorsk, wounding at least six civilians, including three children born in 2010, 2016, and 2024, and damaging a dozen buildings and 22 cars. In nearby Sloviansk, the Russians dropped three glide bombs, killing four civilians and injuring about twenty, including a 14-year-old girl.
Thehorrifying perversion of this horror hushed up by most foreign media and the international community reached new extremes with the handing over of a Ukrainian soldiers body to the Chernivtsi authorities, inside which the Russians had planted an explosive. Experts from the local forensic medicine bureau discovered this and, during the autopsy, were forced to order the evacuation of the building.
Russian terror even extended to Moldova after an attack on the Novodnistrivka dam in that same region caused a spill of petroleum products into the Dniester. So much so that Moldovan authorities handed the Russian ambassador a note of protest, along with a bottle of contaminated water from that river.
The silence of the international community not only indicates inattention but also suggests a conscious denial or, at the very least, a culpable omission in the face of an increasingly industrialized, widespread, and deliberate methodology of terror. The technology at their disposal allows the Russians to extend their manhunt across space and time, not only increasing their ability to strike but also lowering the moral and operational costs of assassination. Virtually all of the crimes described in this article largely experienced firsthand by us were carried out remotely against defenseless victims. Double taps, bombed corpses, and shots fired at buses, medical vehicles, and moving ambulances show, four years after the Bukha massacre, how impunity has led to further aberration. Witnessing a repeated yet silent horror reveals the existence of a perceptual asymmetry. The problem is not so much the lack of information as its normalization. The concealment or underestimation of facts like those described ultimately favors the continuation of impunity. If we dont want to call it complicity, at least it remains acquiescence: a form of moral and political degradation with which the West ends up reflecting, in its silence, that of the Russian army.
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.
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Well keep you updated on developments.
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恐怖的常態化
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
翻譯：旺財球球
烏克蘭前線報道????????
赫爾鬆我們在本報YouTube頻道最新視頻報道中於該州拍攝到的畫麵令人震驚。即便是在赫爾鬆那些已被摧毀的村莊廢墟上，俄方無人機仍在投下數量驚人的葉片地雷。這些爆炸物與樹葉和岩石幾乎無異，難以辨認，致命且難以偵測。
在我們拍攝時，烏克蘭防空部隊正在努力擊落數十架這樣的死亡載體。未受到國際社會懲戒的俄羅斯聯邦，繼續實施一場無差別的致命行動：各個年齡段的平民包括許多兒童每天都被俄軍從第聶伯河對岸操控的自殺式FPV無人機及其投放的地雷炸得支離破碎。
3月16日周一約早上7點，其中一架無人機襲擊了一輛正在市中心行駛的汽車，車內有一名67歲男子。襲擊發生後不久，第二架無人機飛到現場上空，專門襲擊正在試圖救援該名嚴重毀容男子的救援人員。離市中心不遠處，一架裝有更大爆炸物的無人機在大白天襲擊了一輛載滿乘客的公交車，造成19人死亡，其中包括一名17歲少年。就在我們經過穆濟基夫卡村不久後，另一架俄軍無人機擊中一輛小巴，更多平民遇難。畫麵過於殘忍，以至於與違反了社交媒體的規則，這些平台允許大量俄方虛假信息傳播卻阻止發布其毀滅性後果。
在附近的尼古拉耶夫，俄方無人機駕駛員襲擊了一輛疾馳在庫楚魯布斯卡街道上的救護車，致車內司機和一名醫生被嚴重毀容。其他俄方彈藥還損毀了一所學校和一棟公寓，晝夜反複攻擊。另有彈藥七次襲擊奧恰科夫社區。我們在赫爾鬆與尼古拉耶夫地區間拍攝時，烏克蘭防空係統擊落了其中一架。
與此同時，在哈爾科夫地區，俄方無人機遠程操作手襲擊了諾瓦奧列克桑德裏夫卡村附近的一輛公交車，致1人死亡、4人受傷。在同一地區的庫皮揚斯克區的維利科布爾魯茨基社區，俄軍早前襲擊過一輛在契爾沃納赫維利亞街道行駛的醫療車輛，殺死一名醫生和一名護士，另一名醫護人員重傷。同樣在哈爾科夫，俄方對該市的最近的襲擊造成一名小學教師、她的兒子以及另一名年輕女孩死亡，該女孩被發現在母親屍體旁。
在過去數小時內，俄空軍在克拉馬托爾斯克市中心投下一枚500公斤炸彈，造成至少六名平民受傷，其中包括出生於2010年、2016年和2024年的三名兒童，並摧毀了數十幢建築和22輛汽車。在附近的斯洛維揚斯克，俄方投下三枚滑翔炸彈，造成4名平民死亡，約20人受傷，其中包括一名14歲女孩。
（圖：我與阿拉在烏克蘭赫爾鬆州就葉片地雷進行報道????????版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
而大多數外國媒體與國際社會對俄達到變態新極端的恐怖行為選擇噤聲：在向切爾尼夫齊當局移交一名烏克蘭士兵遺體時，俄方在遺體內安裝了爆炸裝置。當地司法醫學鑒定專家在屍檢中發現了這一點，並在檢驗過程中被迫下令疏散整棟大樓。
俄方的恐怖甚至蔓延到摩爾多瓦：俄軍對同一地區諾沃德尼斯特裏夫卡水壩的襲擊導致石油類汙染物泄入第聶伯河。摩爾多瓦當局因此向俄方大使遞交了抗議照會，並隨附一瓶受汙染的河水作為證據。
（圖：這是我與Alla在烏克蘭赫爾鬆灰色地帶報道????????版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
國際社會的沉默不僅顯示出漠視，更暗示了一種有意識的否認，或至少是一種在麵對日益工業化、規模化且蓄意化的恐怖手法時的罪責性不作為。俄軍掌握的技術使他們能夠跨越時空延伸其獵殺行動，不僅提高了打擊能力，也降低了暗殺的道德和操作成本。本文所描述的幾乎所有罪行，大多是我們親眼目睹，都是遠程遙控對手無寸鐵的受害者實施的。二次襲擊、屍體炸彈以及襲擊公交車、醫務車輛和行進中的救護車，顯示出在布查大屠殺四年後，逍遙法外如何導致更嚴重的畸變。目睹反複發生且被沉默的恐怖，讓我們看清一種感知上的不對稱。問題並非信息匱乏，而是恐怖的被常態化。對如本文所述事實的隱瞞或淡化最終隻會助長繼續逍遙法外。如果我們不願稱之為同謀，至少也可稱之為默許：一種道德與政治的淪喪，西方最終在沉默中反映出與俄軍相似的墮落。
（圖：我與Alla在烏克蘭赫爾鬆殺戮區報道????????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。
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