By Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine ????????
Kolinkivtsi Over ten hours awake, hoping those terrifying shots you feel getting closer wont reach your home, the bunker where youre taking cover. Over twelve hours of sirens and desperate screams. The unbreathable air, while weaving between wrecked cars and the rubble of buildings to reach your vehicle, hoping to find it intact. The phone calls and messages, amid curses and prayers, the body count, and the official bulletins. Then, the images. Heartbreaking, as much as the hope that they will be seen by those with the power to ensure that similar atrocities never happen again.
As horrifyingly similar as they are, those broadcast yesterday in the West arent from the first night of the war but from the 1,283rd. Which, like all the others, was almost identical to the one we experienced in Ukraine on that fateful February 24, 2022.
The endless amount of time between now and then measures all the futile efforts to stop the one who knowingly created, released, and carried out that terror.
Ukraine was overwhelmed last night by at least 629 Russian drones and other missiles of various types, produced it should be remembered also thanks to the generous contributions to Russian terrorism by those European countries that, neither in the last 42 months nor in the previous 8 years, have been able to find an alternative to Russian gas and LNG and continue to purchase record quantities.
Enough to finance Putins war effort with 1.8 billion euros a month, according to the European Commissioner for Energy, Dan Jrgensen.
Between direct impacts and debris falling on at least twice as many residential areas, at least 39 districts in Ukraine have experienced harrowing moments like those described. More than any other city, Kyiv has been the most affected by the Russian Armed Forces.
Two of their cruise missiles aimed directly at two 25- and 16-story residential buildings in the capital, filled with civilians. Other vectors of death struck apartment buildings, kindergartens, and private homes in at least four of its districts (Darnytsky, Dniprovsky, Solomyansky, Shevchensky), injuring around fifty civilians and killing 22, four of whom were minors. The youngest victim was a two-year-old girl. Around ten civilians are still missing, while at the time of writing, rescuers continue to feverishly dig through the rubble of at least 80 damaged civilian buildings.
Through his spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin immediately denied intentionally targeting Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, claiming he had successfully targeted legitimate military targets.
Besides those described, Russian aircraft also struck the Intercity+ passenger train departing for Kharkiv and damaged othertargets that have nothing to do with the military, including the building housing the staff of the EU delegation on a diplomatic mission in Kyiv, the office of the British Council, the headquarters of the newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, as well as the kindergartens and apartment buildings mentioned above, and the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.
Im often asked what Ukrainians think of Donald Trump, expecting angry responses about an American betrayal that resulted in a six-month freeze on military supplies (which led to the collapse of the Avdiivka front, still pressing toward Pokrovsk) and the blackout of US intelligence agencies in Kyiv (followed by the Russian reclamation of much of the territory lost in Kursk), and which was fully realized in Alaska.
This should have been the main topic of a speech requested by RAI Radio Uno by yesterday, which I could not address precisely because of the intense Russian bombing just described.
Strange as it might seem,the American about-face has hurt but not surprised.
Widely anticipated by that MAGA world that views the tycoon as its mentor and inspiration, it had been in the air for at least two years, during which his predecessor in the White House had nevertheless shown considerable hesitation.
What deeply hurts Ukrainian civil society is the double-dealing and treachery of much of the world it fights for.
With data in hand, the B4Ukraine group and the Kyiv School of Economics explained how in addition to the aforementioned revenues from gas and LNG sales to the EU in 2024 alone,foreign companies operating in Russia effectively funded the recruitment of one million Russian contract soldiers by paying Moscow at least $20 billion in taxes every month.
The main financier of Russian terrorism remains a European company: Raiffeisen Bank, which pays $402 million annually. Following Chery Automobile ($222 million), Philip Morris International ($220 million), and Japan Tobacco International ($182 million), another European company stands out: Leroy Merlin, which, despite Pariss declarations and good intentions, continues to be present in the Russian market, effectively funneling $128 million a year to its army.
Hiding behind the fig leaf of tariffs on India, the worlds second-largest buyer of Russian crude oil, is certainly inglorious for the United States. Especially considering that in the third year of Russias large-scale invasion of Ukraine (the 11th year of the war), their European partners purchased nearly $104 billion (plus another $138 billion spent on various fossil fuels).
Way more is, however, for those who, faced with the bodies of Ukrainian children torn to pieces by the Russian missiles they finance, propose responding with a 19th package of sanctions that still excludes turning off the tap through which terror flows.
炸彈與恥辱
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
來自烏克蘭的現場報導
昨晚，烏克蘭遭受了至少629架俄羅斯無人機和各種類型導彈的襲擊，這些導彈的生產應該記住也得益於那些歐洲國家對俄羅斯恐怖主義的慷慨貢獻，這些國家在過去42個月和之前的8年裡，都未能找到俄羅斯天然氣和液化天然氣的替代品，並繼續購買創紀錄的數量。
深度傷害烏克蘭民眾和社會的是，它為之奮鬥的世界卻給予它太多兩面派行徑和背叛。
科林基夫齊醒著超過十個小時，希望那些你感覺越來越近的可怕槍聲不會擊中你的家，擊中你躲藏的掩體。超過十二個小時的警報聲和絕望的尖叫。令人窒息的空氣，在被毀的汽車和建築物的廢墟中穿梭，趕去你的車那裡，希望它完好無損。電話和簡訊，中間夾雜著詛咒和祈禱，死亡人數統計，以及官方公告。然後，就是影像。令人心碎，但同時也希望那些有能力確保類似暴行不再發生的人能夠看到這些。
令人恐懼的相似之處在於，這些昨天在西方媒體中播出的畫面，並非來自戰爭的第一夜，而是來自第1283天。就像所有其他的畫面一樣，這幾乎與我們在2022年2月24日那個災難性的日子以來在烏克蘭經歷的幾乎相同。
從那時到現在之間無盡的時間衡量了所有徒勞的努力，以阻止那個明知故犯地製造、釋放和實施恐怖的人。
根據歐盟能源專員丹約根森的數據，每月18億歐元足以為普京的戰爭行動提供資金支持。
在直接襲擊和至少兩倍於住宅區的碎片墜落地之間，烏克蘭至少有39個地區經歷了如上所述的可怕時刻。與任何其他城市相比，基輔受俄羅斯武裝部隊的影響最大。
他們的兩枚巡航導彈直接瞄準首都的兩棟25層和16層的住宅樓，裡面住滿了平民。其他死亡載體襲擊了其至少四個地區（達爾尼茨基、第聶伯羅夫斯基、索洛米揚斯基、舍甫琴科夫斯基）的公寓樓、幼兒園和私人住宅，造成約50名平民受傷，22人死亡，其中4人是未成年人。最小的受害者是一名兩歲的女孩。截至撰寫本文時，仍有大約有10名平民失蹤，救援人員仍在瘋狂地挖掘至少80棟受損民用建築的廢墟。
通過其發言人德米特里佩斯科夫，俄羅斯獨裁者弗拉基米爾普京立即否認有意瞄準烏克蘭民用基礎設施，聲稱他已成功瞄準「合法的軍事目標」。
除了上述情況外，俄羅斯飛機還襲中了從哈爾科夫出發的城際+客運列車，並損壞了其他與軍事無關的目標，包括在基輔進行外交訪問的歐盟代表團工作人員所在的大樓、英國文化協會的辦公室、《烏克蘭真理報》的總部，以及上述幼兒園和公寓樓，以及切爾諾貝利核電站。
我經常被問及烏克蘭人如何看待唐納德川普，他們期待聽到對美國背叛的憤怒回應，這場背叛導致了為期六個月的軍事物資凍結（導致了前線在阿夫迪夫卡的崩潰，和向波克羅夫斯克的推進）和美國情報機構在基輔的停擺（隨後俄羅斯收復了在庫爾斯克損失的大部分領土），美國的背叛在阿拉斯加完全展現在世人面前。
這本應是昨天RAI Radio Uno要求的演講的主要議題，但因為剛剛描述的俄羅斯猛烈轟炸，我無法準確地談論這個問題。
雖然看起來很奇怪，但美國的變臉令人痛心但不意外。
MAGA世界視這位大亨為導師和靈感來源，並對他報以很大期望，這種情況已經醞釀了至少兩年，在此期間，他在白宮的前任儘管如此任然表現出了相當大的猶豫。
憑藉掌握的數據，B4Ukraine組織和基輔經濟學院解釋說除了上述銷售給歐盟的天然氣和液化天然氣的收入外僅在2024年，在俄羅斯運營的外國公司通過每月向莫斯科繳納至少200億美元的稅款，有效地資助了一百萬俄羅斯合同士兵的招募。
俄羅斯恐怖主義的主要資助者仍然是一家歐洲公司：奧地利萊菲森銀行，每年支付4.02億美元。緊隨其後的是奇瑞汽車（2.22億美元）、菲利普莫里斯國際（2.2億美元）和日本菸草國際（1.82億美元），另一家歐洲公司脫穎而出：樂華梅蘭，儘管巴黎發表了聲明和良好的意願，該公司繼續在俄羅斯市場上市，每年有效地向其軍隊輸送1.28億美元。
隱藏在對印度徵收關稅這片遮羞布背後的是世界第二大俄羅斯原油買家，對美國來說這無疑是不光彩的。尤其是在俄羅斯大規模入侵烏克蘭的第三年（戰爭的第11年），他們的歐洲夥伴購買了近1040億美元原油（另外1380億美元用於購買各種化石燃料）。
然而，更重要的是，對於那些面對被他們資助的俄羅斯導彈撕成碎片的烏克蘭兒童的屍體的人來說，他們提出的回應是第19套制裁方案，但仍然不包括關閉恐怖之流的源頭。英國廣播公司
