Sloviansk Under Bombs: Russia Lays the Groundwork for the Battle of Donbas
By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine ????????
All the footage visible on this page was recorded with a smartphone.
No troupes, just brave hands holding it.
Sloviansk The city we write from is at the heart of the war waged by Russia in Ukraine for at least 12 years. On the night of March 31, Moscows air force carried out a devastating airstrike on Sloviansk, dropping two 250-kilogram high-explosive glide bombs on a densely populated residential area. This injured several civilians including a 12-year-old girl and damaged about twenty homes and cars. In the following hours, the occupiers targeted the local railway infrastructure, seriously injuring four workers, one of whom was a woman.
An asymmetric challenge for Ukrainian short-range air defensethat continues the human and infrastructure destruction wedocumenteda few days ago, when on March 24 and 29, a similar attack resulted in civilian deaths in Kramatorsk including a 13-year-old boy and other glide bombs destroyed six apartment buildings in Sloviansk, leading to approximately twenty casualties, including a 9-year-old and a 15-year-old.
Donetsk Oblast remains the Russians primary target. The Russian spring-summer offensive of 2026 is underway against the Donbas Fortress Belt, and the large-scale mechanized attack wementionedlast Tuesday that was repelled is just the beginning.Accordingto Dmytro Zaporozhets, spokesman for the 11th Ukrainian Army Corps (which is defending the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk-Druzhkivka-Kostiantynivka area),the Kremlin aims to reach the administrative borders of this oblast by years end. However, Zaporozhets and other authoritative military sourcesinterviewedby Uliany Bezpalko for RBK-Ukraine doubt the feasibility of such an objective under these conditions.
What we clearly observe from the field is that the occupiers are attempting to lay the groundwork for the battles that will determine the fate of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
The main road supplying both passes through Izium, and the Russians are trying to disrupt it in every possible way.
Traveling by car is now nearly impossible due to constant drone and artillery attacks, as well as mines dropped by other UAVs.
A torment intensified by the new technology of selective terror.
With adequate resources and coverage, we did it.
Pushing even further beyond all those areas already under attack since 2022, where we had captured exclusive footage that is still available on the YouTube channel of the Italian newspaper La Ragione.
Already razed to the ground, Kamianka, Dovhenke, and Dolyna are reliving the nightmare we faced back then.
So oppressive that it forced the remaining survivors whom we know almost individually to leave their homes a second time. ЗАНЯТО Z: occupied by Z.
Three and a half years ago, the few remaining walls were covered in similar graffiti as they stubbornly returned to what was left of their homes.
We were there with them and filmed everything.
As they retreated, the Russians also poisoned the wells and wrote ДЛЯ ВАС (to you) on the wreckage of burned cars, with an ominous warning that they would return. And here it is, the russkij mir (meaning, Russian world and peace, in their language).
This is what the occupiers call what they export to Ukraine: terror.
A terror that haunted us too while we were filming among the rubble of theDolynaand Sviatohirsk monasteries, which ended up giving us some shelter, albeit minimal.
Today, Russian snipers no longer carry rifles but joysticks. They dont expose themselves to fire; they operate remotely, receiving rewards for every cross, PRESS sign, or clasped hands they fire at.
We couldnt advance beyond Donetsk and Mykolaivka, because the Russian commands order was to press toward Lyman and Yampil.
Further up, the occupiers are trying to squeeze Borova. Even further north, theyve never taken their sights off Kupiansk.
And then there are Huliaypole, Hryshyne, Rodynske, Novopavlivka, Stepnenska, Zelene, Orikhiv, and the other settlements from which we wrote our most recent dispatches.
Because Donetsk Oblast remains the Russians main objective but not their final one.
In 1.499 days of war, we recorded over 250 videos from ground zero and wrote more than 1,500 articles. Here are just some.
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斯洛維揚斯克在遭受轟炸：俄羅斯為頓巴斯之戰鋪路
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
翻譯：旺財球球
烏克蘭前線報道????????
本文所有影像均由智能手機拍攝。
沒有三腳架，隻有勇敢之手在握持。
斯洛維揚斯克我們撰稿所在的這座城市位於俄羅斯對烏克蘭長達12年戰爭的核心地帶。3月31日夜間，莫斯科空軍對斯洛維揚斯克實施了毀滅性空襲，在一處人口密集的居民區投下兩枚250公斤高爆滑翔炸彈，造成數名平民受傷，包括一名12歲女孩，並毀壞約二十戶民房和若幹車輛。隨後數小時，侵略者又攻擊力當地鐵路基礎設施，嚴重傷及四名工人，其中一人為女性。
（視頻：我們在烏克蘭頓涅茨克州斯洛維揚斯克拍攝此段影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
這對烏克蘭短程防空體係構成了不對稱挑戰，延續了我們數日前所記錄的人員與基礎設施的損壞：3月24日與29日的類似攻擊已造成克拉馬托爾斯克平民死亡包括一名13歲男孩另有滑翔炸彈在斯洛維揚斯克摧毀了六座公寓樓，導致約二十人傷亡，其中包括一名9歲和一名15歲兒童。
（視頻：Alla與我在烏克蘭頓涅茨克的克拉姆托爾斯克拍攝了這些影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
頓涅茨克州仍是俄軍的首要目標。俄羅斯2026年春夏攻勢正在對頓巴斯的堡壘帶展開，而我們上周二提到的那場大規模機械化進攻，雖已被擊退但隻是開始。根據負責守衛斯洛維揚斯克克拉馬托爾斯克德魯日基夫卡科斯蒂安蒂尼夫卡地區的第11烏克蘭軍團發言人德米特羅紮波羅熱茨所言，克裏姆林宮的目標是在年底前推進至該州行政邊界。然而，紮波羅熱茨與其他接受《RBK-烏克蘭》記者烏利安娜別茲帕爾科采訪的權威軍方消息源對在現有條件下實現該目標表示懷疑。
我們在前線清楚地觀察到，侵略者正試圖為將來決定斯洛維揚斯克和克拉馬托爾斯克命運的戰鬥鋪平道路。
（視頻：我們在烏克蘭頓涅茨克的克拉馬托爾斯克拍攝了此段影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
兩城的主要補給線均經過伊久姆，俄方正想方設法破壞這條通道。
（視頻：我們在烏克蘭哈克裏夫州伊久姆拍攝了此段影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
由於持續的無人機攻擊與炮擊，以及其他無人機投放的地雷，駕車出行幾乎已不可能。
這種折磨因選擇性恐怖的新技術而愈演愈烈。
（視頻：我們在烏克蘭頓巴斯，從伊久姆經斯洛維揚斯克到克拉馬托爾斯克沿線拍攝了此段影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
憑借足夠的資源與掩護，我們做到了。
我們甚至進一步深入那些自2022年起已遭襲擊的區域，在那裏拍攝到獨家影像，仍可在意大利報紙《La Ragione》的YouTube頻道上看到。
（視頻：我們在烏克蘭東部前線拍攝了此段影像，當時俄軍撤退後仍持續轟炸。這是一枚相對較小的KAB滑翔炸彈的效果版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
卡米安卡、多夫亨克和多利納已被夷為平地，正重演我們當年所經曆的噩夢。
（視頻：我們在烏克蘭多夫亨克拍攝了此段影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
壓迫感如此強烈，迫使那些僅存的幸存者我們幾乎認識每一位不得不第二次離開了他們的家。ЗАНЯТОZ：被Z占領。
（視頻：我們在烏克蘭卡米安卡拍攝了此段影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
三年半前，殘存的牆上也寫滿類似塗鴉，人們倔強地回到所剩無幾的家園。
我們曾與他們同在那裏並拍攝了一切。
（視頻：我們在俄軍撤退時於烏克蘭東部前線拍攝了此段影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
在撤退時，俄軍還下毒了水井，並在燒毀車輛的殘骸上寫下給你們，以此陰森地警告他們會回歸。而這，就是所謂的russkij mir，意即俄式世界、俄式和平。
這便是侵略者所謂向烏克蘭輸出的：恐怖。
（視頻：我們在烏克蘭頓涅茨克多利納拍攝了此段影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
當我們在多利納與斯維亞托希爾斯克修道院的廢墟中拍攝時，這種恐怖也一直籠罩著我們，修道院最終提供給我們一些（雖極少的）庇護。
（視頻：我們在烏克蘭頓涅茨克多利納拍攝了此段影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
如今，俄方狙擊手不再扛著步槍，而是握著操縱杆。他們不再暴露自己於火力之下；他們遠程操作，每打中一個一個十字架、帶PRESS標誌、或祈禱的雙手，便能獲得獎勵。
（視頻：我們在烏克蘭斯洛博津斯科耶拍攝了此段影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
我們無法繼續向頓涅茨克和米科萊夫卡方向前進，因為俄方指揮部下令向利曼和亞姆皮爾方向推進。
（視頻：我們在烏克蘭頓涅茨的克利曼拍攝了此段影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
再往北，侵占者正試圖包夾博羅瓦。再往更北，他們從未將目光從庫皮揚斯克移開。
（視頻：我們在烏克蘭伊久姆拍攝的俄軍留下的萬人坑處拍攝了此段視頻版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
除此之外，還有胡利亞伊波勒、赫裏希涅、羅丁斯凱、新帕夫利夫卡、斯捷普涅斯卡、澤勒內、奧裏希夫，以及其他我們最近報道的村鎮。
因為頓涅茨克州仍是俄軍的主要目標，但並非其最終目標。
（視頻：在一個看似平靜的瞬間，Alla在我們走出戰壕時拍下了這張照片????????版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
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