By: Giorgio Provinciali
Chernovtsy In response to a recent combined drone and missile attack by Russian forces that struck a clinic in Odessa along with its entire ambulance fleet, the Ukrainian president expressed strong criticism By stating: The missile attacks and the Russian Shaheds are more powerful than the efforts of the United States and other countries to compel Russia to seek peace.
Yesterday, 315 drones were launched from the Russian Federation and the territories of Ukraine that it occupies illegally. Of these, 250 were shot down, along with 7 missiles, 2 of which were from North Korea.
This demonstrates thatthe exchanges within the so-called axis of evil continue unabated, despite the (few) international communitys efforts. These actions openly violate the UN resolutions we recently discussed, which were signed, including by Moscow, with the intent of isolating countries like Iran and North Korea. As Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense in Kyiv, pointed out in a recent interview with The War Zone,North Korea now can strike targets with lethal precision, thanks to the technology received from the Russiansthat improved missiles such as the KN-23. Notably, before that, at least half of these missiles had deviated during flight or exploded mid-air.
Budanov also stressed that there are agreements under which Moscow will help Pyongyang to start large-scale industrial production of unmanned aircraft carriers such as the Harpy or the Geran (which is the Russian clone of the Iranian Shahed, ed.) on the territory of North Korea.
In addition to theattack on the Odessa maternity hospital, where three civilians were killed and fifteen injured,hundreds of drones targeted at least seven large neighborhoods in Kyiv last night. This assault lasted for 5 hours and 7 minutes. The neighborhoods of Darnytskyj, Obolonskyj, Holosiivskyj, Desnyanskyj, Podilskyj, Shevchenkivskyj, and Poznyakij were set on fire, leaving them engulfed in thick,toxic clouds of black smoke at dawn. As a result, the air quality in the last two of these areas has become the worst on record.
Whatleaves one speechless, to say the least, is knowing that Zelensky had agreed with the Biden administration to transfer 20,000 anti-drone missiles to Ukraine, but the United States has decided to transfer them to the Middle East.
The president of Ukraine revealed this during an interview with ABC News: We were counting on those missiles he said afflicted but just this morning my defense minister told me that the United States has changed its mind.
Faced with devastating attacks like those never seen in any war which for brutality and volume of fire establish a sad record over the previous one every day,the USA therefore not only does not impose sanctions on the aggressor but also takes away the possibility of defending itselfby going back on its word.
In a similar vein, faced with states that sponsor terrorism and continue to exchange weapons, money, skills, intelligence, and data with the declared goal of escalating nuclear conflict towards the West,the European Union has opted to fund this terrorism by purchasing record amounts of Russian LNG.
In that interview,Zelensky expressed his frustration with the stance of Western partners regarding the sanctions on Russia. He pointed out that one reason for their refusal to lift the sanctions is the belief that Ukraine should enlist its barely 18-year-olds in the army. To challenge this notion, he referenced successful blitz operations, such as the one where Ukraine significantly diminished Russian strategic aviation without losing a single soldier. Zelensky emphasized thateffectiveness does not solely depend on the number of personnel involved; rather, it is proportional to the quality of weapons and technology at their disposal.
Stating that Moscow can mobilize about 4050 thousand people a month, while Kyiv does not recruit about 27,000and that sanctions should be aimed at the money that the Russians use to finance the war, Zelensky provides incontrovertible evidence, so obvious as to be disconcerting after 11 years of war.
The Wests hesitation to impose severe sanctions on Moscow is evident in a recent statement by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. When asked if he believed thatthe risks for NATO would increase once a lasting ceasefire is achieved in Ukraine, Rutte frankly responded, I think that is a fact.
In light of all this, it is no wonder thatmore than half of Ukrainians are adamantly against any territorial concessions(a survey conducted yesterday by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology). These people are fed up with trading away their countrys resources for words.
失去美國
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
切爾諾夫策針對俄羅斯軍隊最近對敖德薩一家診所及其整個救護車隊的無人機和導彈聯合襲擊，烏克蘭總統表達了強烈批評，他聲明：導彈襲擊和俄羅斯沙赫德無人機比美國和其他國家為迫使俄羅斯尋求和平所做的努力更強烈。
昨天，從俄羅斯聯邦和其非法佔領的烏克蘭領土發射了315架無人機。其中250架被擊落，同時還有7枚導彈，其中2枚來自朝鮮製造。
這表明，儘管（少數）國際社會做出了努力，所謂的邪惡軸心內的交易仍然有增無減。這些行為公然違反了我們最近討論過的聯合國決議，包括莫斯科簽署的決議，其目的是孤立伊朗和朝鮮等國家。正如基輔國防部情報總局局長布達諾夫在最近接受戰區採訪時指出的那樣，由於從俄羅斯那裡獲得的技術改進了KN-23等導彈，朝鮮現在可以以致命的精度打擊目標。值得注意的是，在此之前，至少有一半的導彈在飛行過程中偏離或在空中爆炸。
布達諾夫還強調，根據協議，莫斯科將幫助平壤在朝鮮領土上開始大規模生產無人機航母，如Harpy或Geran（它是伊朗Shahed無人機的俄羅斯克隆版）。
（圖片說明：俄羅斯最近一次襲擊敖德薩一家婦產醫院的影響圖片來源：敖德薩行政部門）
除了對敖德薩婦產醫院的襲擊（造成3名平民死亡，15人受傷）外，昨晚還有數百架無人機襲擊了基輔至少七個大型街區。這次襲擊持續了5小時7分鐘。達爾尼茨基區、奧博隆區、霍洛西伊夫區、德斯尼揚區、波多爾區、舍甫琴科夫區和波茲尼亞基區燃起了大火，在黎明時分被籠罩在濃厚的有毒黑煙中。結果，最後兩個地區的空氣質量已達到有記錄以來的最差水平。
最令人無語的是，澤連斯基已經與拜登政府達成協議，向烏克蘭轉移20,000枚反無人機導彈，但美國已決定將它們轉移到中東。
烏克蘭總統在接受ABC新聞採訪時透露了：我們一直指望著這些導彈他痛苦地說但就在今天早上，我的國防部長告訴我，美國已經改變了主意。
面對如此在任何戰爭中都前所未見的毀滅性的襲擊，其殘酷性和火力之大每天都在創造悲慘的記錄，美國不僅未對侵略者實施制裁，而且還通過背信棄義剝奪了我們自衛的可能性。
同樣，歐盟面對支持恐怖主義並繼續交換武器、金錢、技能、情報和數據的國家，其公開目標是向西方升級核衝突，已選擇通過購買創紀錄數量的俄羅斯液化天然氣來資助這種恐怖主義。
在那次採訪中，澤連斯基對西方夥伴在制裁俄羅斯問題上的立場表示失望。他指出，他們拒絕解除制裁的一個原因是他們認為烏克蘭應該徵召剛滿18歲的青年入伍。為了挑戰這種觀點，他提到了成功的閃電戰行動，例如烏克蘭在沒有損失一名士兵的情況下大大削減了俄羅斯戰略航空兵。澤連斯基強調，效力不僅取決於所涉人員的數量，而且還取決於他們所掌握的武器和技術的質量。
為了挑戰這一觀念，他提到了成功的閃電戰行動，例如烏克蘭在沒有失去一名士兵的情況下大幅削減了俄羅斯的戰略航空。Zelensky強調，有效性不僅取決於所涉人員的數量；相反，它與他們可支配的武器和技術的質量成正比。
澤連斯基說，莫斯科每月可以動員約4萬至5萬人，而基輔不會招募約27,000人，制裁應該針對俄羅斯人用來資助戰爭的資金，他提供了無可爭辯的證據，這些證據非常明顯，以至於在經歷了11年的戰爭後令人不安。
西方在對莫斯科實施嚴厲制裁問題上的猶豫態度在北約秘書長馬克呂特的最新聲明中可見一斑。當被問及他是否認為一旦在烏克蘭實現持久停火，北約面臨的風險會增加時，呂特坦率地回答說：我認為這是一個事實。
鑒於這一切，難怪超過一半的烏克蘭人堅決反對任何領土讓步（這是基輔國際社會學研究所昨天進行的一項調查的結果）。這些人民已經厭倦了為了換取空洞的承諾而出賣自己國家的資源。
