The Ritual and the Desert
By:Giorgio Provinciali
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Blahodatne As in Hitlers bunker, the ritual of the Russian imperial liturgy will outlast reality for a little longer: then reality will come knocking again, and it will do so ever closer.
While we were filming theclipbelow, a SuperCam reconnaissance drone started operating between this location and the nearby villages of Muzykivka and Bohdanivka, after other Russian multirotors had dropped flyers shaped like 200 hryvnia bills, which invited people to scan a QR code to receive real money in exchange for useful information on how to break through Ukrainian defensive barriers. Other flyers also displayed the hammer and sickle symbol and messages of brotherhood among peoples, which the so-called Victory Day would commemorate on May 9th:Our grandfathers fought together in the trenches. History has separated us, but victory will unite us. Who is the real Zelensky and why should we be proud of him?, to name just a few.
Shortly thereafter, the Russian occupiers launched a brutal attack with FPV drones, which swarmed this and other villages like Darivka, targeting anyone within visual range of the remote killers hired by the Moscow regime who were piloting them. That strike was followed by a second, launched shortly after from the opposite bank of the Dnipro with multiple rocket launchers against the communities of Tiahynka and Beryslav. Then KAB glide bombs rained down on the Korabel neighborhood, and at least five Shahed/Gerbera/Geran flew toward the center of Kherson and its districts of Shumen and Tavria, then toward Mykolaiv, passing through Kyselivka and Posad-Pokrovske. An FPV drone in idle mode effectively an active mine capable of attaching itself to its victim as it passes got stuck on the road right at the entrance to nearby Shevchenkove, in the Beryslav district. Using other quadcopters, Russian drone operators scattered the Ostrovsky Highway and the area around the bridge over the Kosheva River with Pryanik (or Plushka) anti-personnel mines, while using high-explosive UAVs they then targeted other bridges and civilian rail convoys to and from the center of Kherson. Two warships have moved from the Kinburn Peninsula toward Oleksandrivka and, as of the time of this report, are ready to launch. More Shahed/Geran UAVs have just taken off from Hvardiyske Airport illegally occupied by Russian forces in Crimea against our positions.
This is the truce that, according to Vladimir Putin, Ukraine should accept without question so that the May 9th parade can take place in Moscow in an atmosphere already grotesque due to Russias bitter defeats.
No armored vehicles will parade on Red Square: in Ukraine, rashist troops burned nearly 12,000 tanks, 25,000 troop transport vehicles, 42,000 mobile artillery systems, 1.4,000 air defense systems, 1.8,000 MLRS, nearly a thousand planes and helicopters, as well as 33 ships, 2 submarines, over 4,000 pieces of special equipment, and more than 1.3 million men.
Those veterans, whose chests Putin will adorn with a Z made of St. Georges ribbon, will evoke images of the boys of the Hitler Youth decorated in the Fhrers garden during his final propaganda ritual, when the Reich had already suffered military defeat.
The flyers shaped like banknotes that rained down on us point to the same logical conclusion:a regime at the end of its ropetrying to gather intelligence cheaply, watching from above and then venting its blind rage against a people it failed to subjugate.
The Russian May 9th celebration no longer aims to commemorate the victory over Nazism but to hijack it, even manipulating nostalgia.
In 1945, even Nazism displayed decorations, symbols, and young men in uniform, while its strategic space had already collapsed. Eighty-one years later, the Kremlin is demanding a truce to preserve the spectacle of May 9th, even as the war it started has drained that celebration of its original meaning.
Two hundred hryvnias is a modest, easily spent denomination like the young men Moscow sends to their deaths today, just to prolong its own suffering.
The parade Putin envisions, filled with military music, is the stage of a power that no longer controls the reality it claims to represent because war his war is so embedded in the ceremony that it distorts its meaning, exposes its fear, and destroys its myth.
It is the empire that celebrates its walls even as the desert has entered the fortress. It is the Masque of the Red Death: the plague entering a princes hall, hosting a feast to keep it at bay.
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儀式與荒漠
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
翻譯：旺財球球
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布拉霍達特內就像希特勒地堡裏的情景一樣，俄羅斯帝國禮儀的儀式會比現實多苟延殘喘片刻：然後現實會再次來敲門，而且會越來越近。
當我們拍攝下方視頻時，一架超級攝像偵察無人機開始在此地與附近的穆齊基夫卡和博赫達尼夫卡村莊之間活動，此前其他俄羅斯多旋翼無人機散發了形似200格裏夫納紙幣的傳單，邀請人們掃描二維碼以換取現金，條件是提供有關如何突破烏克蘭防禦工事的有用情報。其他傳單還印有鐮刀與鐵錘的標誌以及民族之間的兄弟情之類的信息，宣稱所謂的勝利日將在5月9日紀念：我們的祖父曾在戰壕裏並肩作戰。曆史把我們分開，但勝利會把我們團結起來。誰才是真正的澤連斯基，我們為什麽要為他自豪？諸如此類。
（視頻：Alla和我在烏克蘭布拉霍達特內錄製了這些影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：類似本文提到的那種傳單）
不久之後，俄占者發起了一次殘酷的FPV無人機襲擊，這類無人機如蜂群般掠過包括達裏夫卡在內的村莊，針對任何進入被莫斯科政權雇用的遠程操控者視野範圍內的人實施打擊。隨後不久，從第聶伯河對岸又發動了第二次打擊，使用多管火箭向蒂亞金卡和別裏斯拉夫社區發射。隨後KAB滑翔炸彈傾瀉在科拉貝爾街區，至少有五枚沙赫德/格爾貝拉/格蘭向赫爾鬆市中心及其舒門區和塔夫裏亞區飛去，隨後飛向尼古拉耶夫，經過基塞利夫卡和波薩德波克羅夫斯克。一架處於待命模式的FPV無人機實質上是一枚能夠在飛過時粘附受害者的主動地雷在通往附近舍甫琴科沃別裏斯拉夫區入口的道路上卡住了。俄方操作者又用其他四旋翼無人機在奧斯特羅夫斯基公路及科舍瓦河橋周邊散布了Pryanik（或稱Plushka）反人員地雷，同時俄軍用高爆型UAV襲擊了通往赫爾鬆市中心的其他橋梁和民用鐵路車隊。兩艘軍艦已從金本角半島向奧列克桑德裏夫卡移動，截至本報道發出時，已做好發射準備。更多沙赫德/格蘭無人機剛從被俄軍非法占領的克裏米亞赫瓦爾迪伊斯克機場起飛，正飛向我們的陣地。
這是普京所說的停火，烏克蘭應當無條件接受，以便5月9日在莫斯科舉行的閱兵能夠在一種由於俄羅斯慘敗而顯得荒誕的氛圍中進行。
（圖：Alla與我在烏克蘭赫爾鬆被俄聯邦摧毀的加油站前報道版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
紅場上不會有裝甲車遊行：在烏克蘭，侵略者軍隊幾乎損失了1.2萬輛坦克、2.5萬輛裝甲運輸車、4.2萬輛機動炮兵係統、1.4萬套防空係統、1.8萬套多管火箭係統、近千架飛機和直升機，以及33艘軍艦、2艘潛艇、超過4,000件特種裝備和逾130萬名人員。
那些普京將授予用聖喬治絲帶拚成Z標裝飾胸章的老兵，會令人想起希特勒最後宣傳儀式中元首花園中希特勒青年團少年的記憶，那時帝國已然遭受軍事失敗。
那雨點般落下、形如紙幣的傳單指向同一邏輯結論：一個走到盡頭的政權，試圖用廉價手段收集情報，從上方窺視，然後將盲目的憤怒發泄到它未能征服的人民身上。
（圖：Alla與我在烏克蘭赫爾鬆布拉霍達特內廢墟中並行版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
俄羅斯的5月9日慶典不再旨在紀念戰勝納粹，而是在劫持那段曆史，甚至操縱懷舊情緒。
1945年，即便納粹還在展示徽章、標誌和著製服的青年，其戰略空間也已崩潰。八十一年後，克裏姆林宮要求停火以保全5月9日的表演，即便這場它發動的戰爭已耗盡了該慶典的本意。
兩百格裏夫納是一種麵額不大、易於花掉的紙幣就像莫斯科今天派去送死的青年，隻為延續其自身的苦難。
普京所設想的閱兵，充滿軍事音樂，是一個已無法掌控其所聲稱代表的現實的權力舞台，因為戰爭，普京的戰爭，已深嵌於儀式之中，扭曲了它的意義，暴露了它的恐懼，摧毀了它的神話。
那是一個在慶祝城牆的帝國，而荒漠已進入了堡壘。那是紅死病的假麵舞會的現實寫照：瘟疫闖入王子的大廳，而王子卻在舉辦盛宴以圖驅逐它。
（圖：Alla與我在烏克蘭赫爾鬆布拉霍達特內為本文報道版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
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