By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine ????????
Bohuslav The situation at the front is becoming increasingly dire for the Russian army, which is now partially encircled even on the northern front at Sumy, in Oleksiivka. As Ive already described in detail on these pages, it has been forced to retreat from nearby Kostiantynivka to the border between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, and now almost entirely from Volodymyrivka as well.
Zelensky arrived in Donetsk to congratulate those defending Ukraine who, participating in thevictorious counteroffensive in Dobropillia, encircled the Russian Armed Forces in at least three locations, driving them from those territories in Donbas and thus thwarting all of Russias offensive operations this summer.
All enemy groups attempting to enter the Dobropillia and Pokrovsk areas are being destroyed by our guys who, step by step, are liberating our land,the Ukrainian president emphasized, reeling off impressive figures:Since the beginning of our counteroffensive, more than 160 km2 of Ukrainian land has been liberated and another 170 km2 have been cleared. Seven settlements have been liberated and another nine have been cleared of their occupiers.
Nearly one hundred of them have been taken prisoner.
Over 2,500 have been neutralized and 1,300 have died.
These are alarming numbers, especially considering thatsuch a rapid response happened in just over a couple of weeks despite massive military efforts from the Russian side.
An official statement from the Ukrainian General Staff further detailed the current front-line situation, explaining that in the last 24 hours alone, Russian forces dropped 93 guided aerial bombs, carried out one missile attack and 67 air strikes, deployed 1,876 kamikaze drones, and conducted 3,219 bombing raids against Ukrainian Armed Forces positions.Ukrainian defenders have repelled every enemy advance, causing additional losses. One of those Russian glide bombs, a Kab-250, struck the residential area of Kostiantynivka yesterday morning around 10:00 a.m., killing five civilians: two women aged 62 and 65, and three men aged 65, 67, and 74.
The Russians keep striking blindly, and the Ukrainians keep resisting, hoping that someone in the West will decide to stop funding Russian terror. The general outrage feels even stronger now that the European Union is preparing its 19th round of (secondary) economic sanctions against Moscow.
Even now that Russian drones are raining down on them, they wont stop subsidizing their production:this is one of the many comments we overheard while standing at a kiosk where some soldiers were taking refreshments before returning to their positions in the rear.They have Russian missiles pointed at them from Kaliningrad and Belarus, that is, their borders, yet they do nothing to take away their fuel. In fact, they buy even more because what they have blocked at the door is being passed through the window, purchased from countries like India and Turkey.
In Pokrovsk alone, the Ukrainians neutralized 160 occupiers yesterday, killing nearly a hundred of them.Their uniforms still stained with blood, many exhausted soldiers spoke openly with us, venting their understandable frustration.
Most English speakers refer to the West asspineless.
Others use Ukrainian terms that, out of politeness, we avoid translating, but the gist is this.
Contrary to what one might sometimes believe,those defending their home, family, and land at the front are often well informed. Inside bunkers, they spend their time researching on their smartphones to understand how the free world they defend reacts to their sacrifice. What they get in return. What guarantees they will provide for their children. What will happen after them, in the worst case. How much their sacrifice will be valued. Were talking about people ready to die to defend absolute values that others, just hours away, trample upon.
Informed and aware, these soldiers openly share the feeling of fighting alone against an enemy also funded by those who pretend to support them.
With mud on his face and in his hair, and a blood-soaked bandage under a tattered uniform, a young man recently returned from Pokrovsk told us:Were fighting for ourselves. Every piece of land we wrest from the enemy is a conquest, but also a painful contradiction between our exultation and the deep bitterness of knowing that the sacrifices made to obtain it will remain largely unseen. Applauded from afar, but rarely honored in action, as if our blood had no value.
俄罗斯军队在苏梅一带也遭到了的包围，乌克兰人悲喜交加
作者: Giorgio Provinciali
乌克兰现场报道????????
Bohuslav对俄军来说，前线的局势正变得日益严峻，现在甚至在苏梅北线奥列克西伊夫卡一带，他们也遭到了部分包围。正如我在此前的报道中详细描述的那样，他们已被迫从附近的科斯江丁尼夫卡撤退至乌克兰与俄罗斯联邦的边境，现在也几乎完全从沃洛迪米里夫卡撤退了。
（图：找不到在线更新的地图，我根据Deep State的信息在这张图上绘制了最近的战况）
泽连斯基抵达顿涅茨克，祝贺那些保卫乌克兰的人，他们参加了多布罗皮利亚的胜利反攻、在至少三个地点包围了俄罗斯武装部队、将他们赶出顿巴斯地区、从而挫败了俄罗斯今年夏天的所有进攻行动。
乌克兰总统强调说，所有试图进入Dobropillia和Pokrovsk地区的敌军都被我们的人摧毁了，我军正在一步一步地解放我们的土地，并滔滔不绝的列举出惊人的数字：自从我们的反攻开始以来，已经解放了超过160平方公里的乌克兰土地，另有170平方公里已被肃清。七个定居点已被解放，另外九个定居点已被肃清。近一百名敌人被俘。超过2500名敌人已被消灭，1300人死亡。
这些数字令人震惊，尤其考虑到尽管俄罗斯方面做了大规模的军事部署，但乌军仅仅几周内即取得了如此战果。
乌克兰总参谋部的一份官方声明进一步详细说明了当前的前线局势，仅在过去24小时内，俄罗斯军队就投下了93枚制导航空炸弹，进行了一次导弹袭击和67次空袭，部署了1876架神风无人机，并对乌克兰武装部队阵地进行了3219次轰炸。
乌克兰守卫者击退了敌人的每一次进攻，给俄军造成了额外的损失。昨天上午10点左右，其中一枚俄罗斯滑翔炸弹Kab-250袭击了科斯江丁尼夫卡的居民区，造成五名平民死亡：两名分别62岁和65岁的妇女，以及三名分别65岁、67岁和74岁的男子。
（图：本人，正在乌克兰顿涅茨克州战区报道本文版权所有照片Giorgio Provinciali）
俄罗斯人继续盲目地进行打击，而乌克兰人则继续抵抗，希望西方有人会决定停止资助俄罗斯的恐怖活动。现在，即使欧洲联盟正在准备第19轮（二级）对莫斯科的经济制裁，公众的愤怒情绪似乎更加强烈。
即使现在俄罗斯的无人机像下雨一样落到他们（欧盟）头上，他们也不会停止补贴其生产：这是我们站在售货亭前无意听到的众多评论之一，当时一些士兵正在那里补充能量，然后返回后方阵地。
来自加里宁格勒和白俄罗斯--即边境国，的俄罗斯导弹瞄准着他们，但他们却并没有停止资助（俄罗斯）。事实上，他们购买的更多，因为那些被封锁的都从其他渠道流了进来，例如从印度和土耳其等国家购买。
（图：Alla在巴拉克利亚报道，片刻之后，一架俄罗斯无人机袭击了民用基础设施。连接该市与伊久姆的街道上，还有其他无人机在盘旋，甚至更多在从伊久姆到斯洛维扬斯克的方向上空徘徊。Giorgio Provinciali版权所有照片）
仅在波克罗夫斯克，乌克兰人昨天就消灭了160名侵略者，击毙了近百人。他们的制服仍然沾满了鲜血，许多疲惫不堪的士兵坦诚地与我们交谈，发泄着他们可以理解的挫败感。
大多数讲英语的人把西方称为没骨气。其他人使用了乌克兰语术语，出于礼貌，我们不翻译这次词，但要点是一样的。
与人们有时可能相信的相反，那些在前线保卫家园、家庭和土地的人往往消息灵通。在掩体里，他们花时间用智能手机研究他们所捍卫的自由世界如何对他们的牺牲做出反应。他们得到了什么回报。他们将为孩子们提供什么保障。在最坏的情况下，他们之后会发生什么。他们的牺牲将如何被珍视。我们谈论的是准备为捍卫绝对价值观而献出生命的人们，而仅仅几个小时的路程之外的那些人，却践踏着这些价值。
（图：我在乌克兰多布罗皮利亚记录了这段视频版权所有Giorgio Provinciali）
消息灵通且有察觉，这些战士们坦诚的分享了他们孤军奋战的感受，那些假装支持他们的人正在资助他们的敌人。一位脸上沾满泥土，头发蓬乱，在破烂的制服下缠着血迹斑斑的绷带，最近从波克罗夫斯克返回的年轻人告诉我们：
我们正在为自己而战。我们从敌人手中夺取的每一寸土地都是一场征服，但也是一种痛苦的矛盾，因为我们深知，为获得它所做的牺牲在很大程度上会被人们忽视。外面的世界只会远远的鼓掌，但很少付诸行动（支持），好像我们的鲜血没有价值。
(图：Alla和我与从苏梅执行军事任务归来的士兵们-版权所有照片)
