One Life Taken Every Minute
By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine
All you read on this page was experienced.
All the footage was recorded with a smartphone.
No troupes, just brave hands holding it.
Synelnikove — The dawn of the 1,500th day of full-scale warfare was broken by the cries of a child who had lost his father. Not far from us, in the preceding hours, a violent Russian attack targeting agricultural, commercial, and residential facilities in Synelnykove had already killed a man and wounded a 12-year-old boy and his mother. In nearby Pavlohrad, other Russian drones had damaged more industrial buildings in addition to those already eroded by bombs. Still others had injured two boys, aged 16 and 19, in Zaporizhzhia.
The Russian Federation’s full-scale war in Ukraine enters its 1,500th day, while?Russian losses have simultaneously?surpassed 1.3 million men. Precisely 1,300,030,?according?to the Ukrainian General Staff, a progression consistent with the rate of attrition detected by British intelligence. On average, nearly 867 Russian soldiers are killed or seriously injured every 24 hours, totaling well?over a thousand casualties daily, including Ukrainian losses. This means that, between civilians and soldiers,?the failed special operation launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022, has so far claimed more than fifty lives every hour.?
However, in a speech to the nation that night, the Russian leader justified the inevitability of?a blitz designed to last??three days??under the guise of??protecting the Russian-speaking people of Donbas?.
Math clearly show how it (didn’t) end:?
it has destroyed?a life almost every minute, for more than four years.?
Mostly among Russians and Russian-speakers.
In his delirious — and failed — plan to annihilate Ukraine, Putin has so far destroyed 11,830 tanks, 435 aircraft, 350 helicopters, 33 ships, 2 submarines, 39,228 artillery systems, 1,338 air defense systems, 86,773 assault vehicles, and 1,773 Russian MLRS missile launchers.?
These figures show the Ukrainian General Staff’s?statistics?converging with the trend?detected?by independent OSINT analysts like those at Oryx.
Under the pretext of “denazification,”?his regime sent entire brigades of outright Nazis?like Dmitri “Wagner” Utkin (founder?of the Wagner PMC, with “SS” tattooed on his neck), who raped, massacred, and dismembered an uncountable number of civilians. Under the guise of protecting the Russian language and “culture”, he did everything he could to erase the Ukrainian ones, persecuting anyone who didn’t submit to his terror.
When, under Ukrainian fire, Russian soldiers retreated from Izium, we found?mass graves containing the dismembered parts of 449 corpses.?
In nearby Balakliia, there?was?the lifeless body of?a nine-year-old girl, slashed from vagina to mouth and hung?beneath the inscription??we will be back?.
When we entered Trostianets’, after its liberation, we?found?rooms where the Russians were holding Ukrainian civilians, using them as?living blood bags: blood types written on their foreheads and forced to bleed to death. In an adjacent room, there?was?a pool of blood?so deep that the marks could still be seen on the walls even after several coats of lime and paint. The Russian kapos locked the Ukrainian civilians there and shot them blindly, through a closed door.
In Bucha—whose liberation is being celebrated these days—unspeakable atrocities?were committed against Ukrainian civilians of all ages. Many of our closest friends are survivors of that massacre, while others were taken from us forever by the russkiy mir. On April 2, 2022, a colleague from Agence France-Presse?testified?to seeing?at least twenty civilians' bodies with their hands tied, lying in the streets, all shot in the back of the head. Despite this, several Italian journalists had the audacity to?deny?that massacre from afar.
It's impossible to forget all this.
Just a few hours ago, we collected —not only verbal ones— testimonies from those who suffered through the horrors of?mass graves, torture, and mobile crematoria.
Yes, because — as that and other evidence we have collected confirms — the executioners of the rascist regime could not get rid of so many corpses with just bulldozers. From Chernihiv to Mariupol’, where our families still live.
How can we forget them, living in a kill zone ourselves? We simply can’t.
Especially if, after so many days of resistance,?those who argue — from a distance — about the future are the ones fueling other conflicts. They make it coincide with?the scars of a past whose edges will never match?and?a present that plagues our loved ones and us?in Donbas.?
Surrendering it — as the accomplices of Moscow’s bloodthirsty regime desire — would mean sinking more towns like Bukha, Trostianets’, Izium, Balakliia, and Mariupol’ into?a shadow of infamy.
Pretending that the terror we know doesn’t exist, until the regime that exported it grows strong enough to swallow more land and lives.
No,?rewarding aggression with forced annexations cannot be the epilogue of this daily bloodshed.
In 1.500 days of war,?we recorded over 250 videos from ground zero and wrote more than 1,500 articles.
We are doing our best to provide genuine, first-hand reports from zones where almost no press dares to go. This means living constantly in a kill zone. We take the risk, but without your invaluable support, our voices would remain unheard and silent. Without brave people sharing our articles from afar, they would remain unread. Our reports would go unseen, and our efforts would be lost. There’s still a lot of work to do here, as the people around us are also in no better situation.
We’re renewing our?fundraising campaign?and thanking everyone who joins us in helping to restore what Russia is destroying. Moving forward with only a small reimbursement for each article from a brave newspaper that believes in us is extremely challenging. That’s why we are grateful to all the kind people who support us and trust in our mission.
Even a small donation helps.
We’ll keep you updated on developments.
Thank you all, dear friends
每一分鍾都有生命逝去
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
翻譯：旺財球球
烏克蘭前線報道?
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本文所列，皆為親身經曆。
所有影像均以智能手機拍攝。
沒有攝製隊，隻有勇敢之手在記錄。
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西涅利尼科韋?—?全麵戰爭進入第1500天的黎明，被一名失去父親的孩子的哭聲打破。就在之前幾個小時內，在離我們不遠處，俄方針對西涅利尼科韋的農業、商業和平民設施發動了猛烈襲擊，造成一人死亡、一名12歲男孩和他的母親受傷。在附近的帕夫洛赫拉德，俄方無人機損壞了多處已被此前炸彈損毀的工業建築。還有在紮波羅熱，襲擊炸傷了兩名分別為16歲和19歲的男孩。
（圖：我與Alla在烏克蘭紮波羅熱遭遇又一次俄方襲擊後拍下了這張照片——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
俄羅斯聯邦對烏克蘭的全麵戰爭進入第1500天，與此同時俄方損失已超出130萬人。根據烏克蘭總參謀部的數字，準確數字為1,300,030，這一增長與英國情報所得出的俄軍消耗速度一致。平均每24小時近867名俄軍被殺或重傷，日總傷亡（含烏方）遠超一千人。這意味著，自2022年2月24日弗拉基米爾·普京發動那場失敗的特別行動以來，平民與軍人合計，迄今每小時損失超過五十人。
然而，俄國領導人在戰爭爆發那晚向全國的講話中，為那場被標榜為將持續“三天”的閃電戰辯護，偽稱其為“保護頓巴斯的俄語人口”而為之。
數學清晰地表明它（並未）結束：
在四年多的時間裏，幾乎每一分鍾就有一條生命被摧毀。
受害者多為俄羅斯人及俄語人口。
（圖片來源與致謝：烏克蘭總參謀部）
在他那妄想並失敗的消滅烏克蘭的計劃中，普京迄今已摧毀11,830輛坦克、435架飛機、350架直升機、33艘艦艇、2艘潛艇、39,228門炮兵係統、1,338套防空係統、86,773輛突擊車輛和1,773套俄方多管火箭係統。
這些數據表明烏克蘭總參謀部的統計與獨立開源情報分析者（如Oryx）所評估的趨勢一致。
（圖：這裏有人居住。我們在布查解放後不久拍了這張以及許多其他的照片。俄軍在此殘忍地殺戮、強奸和綁架——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：四年前我與Alla在這幢樓裏報道時，俄軍曾拷打烏克蘭平民。這裏是電影《布查》中的一些場景的原型——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：約兩個月前，我與Alla在布查報道時拍下這張照片。臉部打了馬賽克的這名婦女是布查大屠殺的幸存者，她的兒子為保衛烏克蘭而犧牲。這張照片中，她在向廚房窗台堆放箱子和紙箱，因為外麵氣溫已到零下27攝氏度，而俄方襲擊使取暖係統損壞——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：布查解放後，我們在那位婦女家門口拍下了這張照片。俄軍撬開了這扇門和其他所有門，綁架平民並占據他們的房屋——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：在布查與伊爾平之間的“車墓地”裏，有一堆汽車殘骸，紀念那些在車輛內試圖逃離俄軍時喪生的人們——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
以“去納粹化”為借口，普金的政權派遣了成編製的納粹分子，如德米特裏·“瓦格納”·烏特金（瓦格納私營軍事公司創始人，頸部有“SS”紋身），這些人強奸、屠殺並肢解了無數平民。以保護俄語與“文化”為名，他竭力抹去烏克蘭的文化，對任何不屈從於其恐怖的人進行迫害。
（圖：我與Alla在烏克蘭特羅斯季亞涅茨錄下了這些影像——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
當俄軍在烏克蘭火力下從伊久姆撤退時，我們發現了裝有449具屍體的萬人坑，這些屍體有被肢解的痕跡。
在附近的巴拉克利亞，有一名九歲女孩的屍體，被從陰道割到嘴部，並懸掛在寫著“我們會回來的”字樣下方。
（圖：我與Alla在巴拉克利亞城市被解放後，從一處刑訊室拍下了這張照片——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：平民在巴拉克利亞臨時製做的取暖蠟燭——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：我與Alla在巴拉克利亞一幢曾被俄軍占據的民用建築內報道時拍下這張照片——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：巴拉克利亞解放後我與Alla拍下的照片——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：我與Alla在烏克蘭巴拉克利亞報道時拍下這張照片，圖中顯示幸存者們正在誌願幫助士兵——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：我們在烏克蘭巴拉克利亞錄製了這些影像——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
當特羅斯季亞涅茨解放後，我們進入那裏調查時，發現了俄軍關押烏克蘭平民並將他們當作活體血包的房間：他們的額頭上寫著血型，強迫放血致死。鄰室地麵曾有一個血池，塗了多層石灰與漆後，牆上的血痕仍隱約可見。俄方看守將烏克蘭平民關在那兒，通過關著的門盲目射殺他們。
（圖：若幹張在特羅斯季亞涅茨解放後在當地拍攝的可發布照片，Alla與我表情說明了一切——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
在布查——日前正式它的解放紀念日——俄軍對各年齡段的烏克蘭平民犯下了不可言說的暴行。我們許多摯友是那場屠殺的幸存者，而另一些人則永遠被“俄式世界”奪去生命。2022年4月2日，一位來自法新社的同事作證稱，至少見到二十具雙手被綁、躺在街上、後腦中彈的平民屍體。盡管如此，仍有若幹遠在意大利的記者竟膽敢否認那場屠殺。
這一切不可能被忘記。
（圖：我們在烏克蘭布查錄製了這些影像——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
就在幾小時前，我們收集了來自親曆過萬人坑、酷刑與流動火化恐怖的人的證詞，不僅限於口述。
是的，正如我們收集到的和其他證據所示，那個種族主義政權的劊子手們無法僅靠推土機處置如此多的屍體。從切爾尼希夫到馬裏烏波爾，仍生活在那些地區的我們的家人都留下了長期的陰影。
（圖：若幹張在伊久姆解放後拍攝的可發布的照片，窗戶上仍帶有被用來阻擋FPV無人機的封堵窗——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：我們在烏克蘭伊久姆錄製了這些影像——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
我們如何能忘記這些？我們自己就生活在一個“殺戮區”之中，根本無法忘記。
尤其是在前線抵抗多日後，依然有人在遠處以疏離的視角討論烏克蘭未來的人，正是那些煽動其他衝突的人。他們將衝突與一個永遠無法對齊其創傷邊緣的過去並為我們及我們所愛的人在頓巴斯造成持續困擾的現在混為一談。
向莫斯科嗜血政權的同謀者所要求的那樣投降，意味著讓更多城鎮如布查、特羅斯季亞涅茨、伊久姆、巴拉克利亞和馬裏烏波爾沉入恥辱的陰影。
假裝我們親眼目睹的恐怖不存在，直到輸出這種恐怖的政權強大到可以吞噬更多土地與生命。
不，靠強行吞並來獎勵侵略，不能成為這日日鮮血的結局。
（圖：我與Alla在戰壕中撰寫本文報道；在經曆1500天戰爭後，這些戰壕仍在保衛烏克蘭——版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
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在1500天的戰爭中，我們從前線錄製了250多段視頻，並撰寫了1500多篇文章。
我們盡最大努力從幾乎沒有媒體敢進入的地帶進行真實的一手報道，這意味著我們長期生活在“殺傷區”。我們承擔風險，但若沒有你們寶貴的支持，我們的聲音將無從傳出。若沒有遠方的勇敢的人們轉發分享我們的文章，它們將無人問津。我們的報道會被忽視，我們的努力將付諸流水。這裏還有大量工作要做，周圍的人們境況同樣艱難。
我們正在更新籌款活動，感謝每一位加入我們、幫助修複俄羅斯破壞的人們。僅靠一家勇敢的報紙為我們每篇文章支付微薄稿酬以維持前線報道極為困難。因此，我們感激所有支持並信任我們使命的善良人們。
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