The Ceasefire That Wasnt: Trumps Three Days Let Russia Breathe
By: Giorgio Provinciali
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Mykolaiv Three days is all it takes for Moscow to move an armored division, saturate Ukrainian skies with drones, and have the families of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia count the dead.
As was easy to predict,the Russians also systematically violated the so-called three-day truceclaimedby the White House leader as a personal success after yet another productive phone call with the Kremlin.
Since the alleged ceasefire took effect, Russia has attacked Ukraine at night with an Iskander-M ballistic missile and 43 high-explosive drones.
The Russian military has struck hard in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine, killing a man and his son on their farm in the village of Novhorod-Siverskyj. It then struck Sumy, sparking widespread fires in the Berezivka area that forced rescuers to suspend operations to avoid becoming victims. It then struck a nine-story building in Kharkiv, killing at least five people. On the other side of the country, a Russian FPV drone struck a civilian car in the Polohivskyj district of Zaporizhzhia, killing the 67-year-old driver on the spot and seriously injuring a man and a woman in the vehicle.
On May 9, Russian weapons continued to be deployed even in the contact zones, where Vladimir Putins army lost another 840 soldiers, 75 artillery systems, 1,489 drones, and 227 military vehicles during assault operations. Its important to remember this, since after yet another false legal and factual equivalence between the aggressor and the attacked, Donald Trumpassuredthat, thanks to him, Ukraine and Russia would no longer kill any more men.
Despite the declared ceasefire,even on May 10, the Russian Armed Forces continued to attack Ukrainian defensive positions. By 4:00 PM on Sunday, the Kyiv General Staff had already recorded 60 attempted breakthroughs, half of which were concentrated toward the Pokrovsk district.
The purpose of these truces, favored by the best support the Kremlin has ever had in Washington, remains the same: to transfer weapons and troops to the hottest areas while Ukrainian weapons remain silent.
Exploiting this latest pretext,Russian troops moved the 90th Tank Division to Pokrovsk, using the citys rubble to amass forces and equipment.
There,the Russians have managed to concentrate a contingent of 106,000 men and are also setting up command posts in Myrnohrad, attempting to use that former urban settlement as a bridgehead to break through toward Rodinske.
The three-day interval granted to Moscow provided the necessary lead time to move such a massive strike force, which otherwise would have required impeccable synchronization among the chain of command, transport vehicles, and supply lines. These are parameters the Russian command certainly could not have optimized under Ukrainian fire.
Advancing toward Hryshyne remains the occupiers priority, andany means of forcing the Ukrainian defenders to slow their pace is a gift to Putin, who can now project the operational capacity of another armored division into combat readiness against the Ukrainian fortress belt of the Donbas.
Until the end of the false truce, hailed as a success in Washington, the Russians hammered Ukraines most troubled regions.
They attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region with two drones, also wounding a child, and overwhelmed the communities of Marhanets and Nikopol with shells launched from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which they illegally occupy.They intensified attackson Huliajpole,carried out personnel rotations that would otherwise be impossible without a ceasefire regime, andcontinued bombing all Ukrainian frontline regions, pouring more than 5,000 drones and 1,500 artillery shells into them during the third day of the so-called truce.
On the night of May 9, even the Latvian Armed Forcesreporteda possible aerial threat in airspace bordering the Russian Federation, where,in addition to flying its own drones, Moscow is attempting to direct Ukrainian ones toward NATO countriesby spoofing and manipulating GNSS/GPS signals and inertial navigation parameters with other electronic warfare tools.
All of this must be recorded in the chronicles of this senseless war; especially now thatthose who should represent and defend the free world more than anyone else are trying to drown the facts in piles of lies, equal in number to the corpses it has produced.
Every second of silence imposed on Ukrainian weapons corresponds to a recalibration of the coordinates of Russian terror at the expense of Ukrainian civilians.
What remains of this truce is a lesson Europe should learn:as long as Washingtons diplomatic clout continues to favor the aggressors rather than the defenders, every ceasefire will merely be the prelude to an offensive.Every productive phone call, a blank signature on the next massacre.
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並非停火的停火：特朗普的三天讓俄羅斯得以喘息
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
翻譯：旺財球球
烏克蘭前線報道??
尼古拉耶夫對莫斯科來說，僅僅三天就足以調動一支裝甲師，用無人機飽和烏克蘭天空，讓切爾尼戈夫、蘇米、哈爾科夫和紮波羅熱的家庭清點屍體。
正如預料之中，俄羅斯人再次係統性地違反了所謂的為期三天的停火，這項停火被白宮領導人在其與克裏姆林宮又一次富有成效的通話後宣稱為個人成就。
（圖：Alla與我在烏克蘭蘇米戰區附近的一戶人家拍下了這張照片版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
自所謂停火生效以來，俄羅斯在夜間使用伊斯坎德爾-M彈道導彈和43枚高爆無人機襲擊了烏克蘭。
俄羅斯軍隊在烏克蘭切爾尼戈夫州進行了猛烈打擊，在諾夫哥羅德-謝韋爾斯基村的一處農場中殺死了一名男子及其兒子。隨後襲擊了蘇梅地區，在別列佐夫卡地區引發大規模火災，迫使救援人員中止行動以避免成為攻擊目標。接著又襲擊了哈爾科夫的一棟九層樓房，造成至少五人死亡。在國土另一側，俄羅斯一架FPV無人機襲擊了紮波羅熱波洛希夫斯基區的一輛民用車輛，造成67歲司機當場死亡，車內一男一女重傷。
（圖：Alla與我一同在烏克蘭哈爾科夫戰區報道版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
5月9日，即便在接觸線區域，俄羅斯武器仍在持續部署，在那裏的交戰行動中，弗拉基米爾普京的軍隊又損失了840名士兵、75件炮兵係統、1,489架無人機和227輛軍用車輛。
記住這一點很重要，因為在對侵略者與被侵略者再次進行虛假的法律與事實對等的論調之後，唐納德特朗普保證多虧他，烏克蘭和俄羅斯將不再有人死亡。
（視頻：我在烏克蘭頓涅茨克州錄製了這段影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
盡管宣布了停火，即便在5月10日，俄羅斯武裝力量仍繼續攻擊烏克蘭防禦陣地。到周日16:00，基輔總參謀部已記錄到60次突破行動，其中一半集中在波克羅夫斯克方向。
這些由華盛頓迄今給予克裏姆林宮的前所未有的支持所促成的停火，目的仍然如故：在烏克蘭武器沉默之時，俄軍乘機將武器和部隊轉移到最激烈的戰區。
利用這一最新借口，俄軍將第90坦克師機動到波克羅夫斯克，利用該市的廢墟集結兵力與裝備。在那裏，俄方已設法集結起約106,000人的部隊，並在米爾諾格勒設置指揮所，試圖把那個曾經的城市定居點作為突擊橋頭堡，向羅津斯克方向突破。
（視頻：Alla與我在烏克蘭赫爾鬆錄製了這段影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
給予莫斯科的這三天時間窗口，使其得以完成調動如此龐大的兵力，否則這本將需要鏈條指揮、運輸車輛與補給線之間近乎完美的協同能力。而這些在烏克蘭火力壓製下顯然無法實現。
向赫裏辛涅推進仍是占領者的優先目標，任何迫使烏克蘭防守者放慢步伐的手段，都是送給普京的禮物他現在可以將另一裝甲師的作戰能力調動為對抗烏克蘭頓巴斯防禦帶的戰備力量。
（視頻：Alla與我在米爾內錄製了這段影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
在被華盛頓譽為成功的這場虛假停火結束前，俄軍猛轟了烏克蘭最艱難的地區。
他們用兩架無人機襲擊了第聶伯羅彼得羅夫斯克州，打傷一名兒童，並從他們非法占領的紮波羅熱核電站向馬爾加涅茨和尼科波利地區發射炮彈。俄軍加大了對胡裏亞波勒的攻擊，在停火掩護下進行了原本不可能完成的人員輪換，並在所謂停火的第三天向所有烏克蘭前線地區投下超過5,000架無人機和1,500枚炮彈。
在5月9日夜間，甚至拉脫維亞武裝部隊也報告了在與俄聯邦接壤的空域可能存在的空中威脅：莫斯科除了投放自身無人機外，還試圖通過欺騙與操控GNSS/GPS信號及慣性導航參數等電子戰手段，將烏克蘭的無人機導向北約國家。
（視頻：Alla與我在烏克蘭哈爾科夫錄製了這段影像版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
所有這些都必須記錄在這場無意義戰爭的編年史中；尤其是在那些本應比任何人都更代表並捍衛自由世界的人們，正試圖用謊言掩蓋事實，而這些謊言的數量，幾乎與戰爭製造的屍體數量相等。
對烏克蘭武器施加的每一秒沉默，換來的就是俄羅斯恐怖行動坐標的重新校準，而代價始終是烏克蘭平民的生命。
這場停火的遺產是歐洲應當學到的教訓：隻要華盛頓的外交影響力繼續偏向侵略者而非防禦者，每一次停火都不過是進攻的前奏。每一次富有成效的通話，都是為下一次大屠殺簽上的空白支票。
（圖：Alla與我在莫斯科對基輔的一次襲擊現場報道版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
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