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Resisting Indifference: How Pokovsk Is Not the Gateway to Donbas
By: Giorgio Provinciali
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Dnipro The war rages on all fronts, and Ukrainian cities are under increasing attack. This is what Donald Trumps so-called peace efforts have led to. Last night, at least three violent explosions shook Dnipro when Russian missiles hit a local civilian facility. This is just one of many non-military targets bombed daily across the country. Even before the American withdrawal,the Russian Federation had shown its rejection of every principle of international law; however, today,the lack of a superpower willing to impose limits allows it to act with impunity.
In the past week alone, Russia has dropped 1,170 guided aerial bombs on Ukraine and launched nearly 1,500 drones against its cities, along with another 70 missiles of various types, including ballistic and cruise ones. Commenting on this destruction, which has not received an adequate international response, the Ukrainian president urged his allies to act, saying,Normal people dont fight like this.
One of those shots, aimed at the Sloviansk power plant, killed two men and caused the entire Donetsk region to lose power for several hours. Another hit the television tower in Chernihiv, a city now under a 15-hour air raid siege. Others targeted civilian infrastructure in Sumy, including medical facilities where 15 injured people, including four children, were being rushed. The Russians also struck the Kherson market, killing two civilians and wounding seven. They launched an Iskander-M ballistic missile armed with a cluster warhead at Mykolaiv, with its submunitions hitting a gas station, killing one person and injuring 19, including a nine-year-old girl. They launched a combined attack on the Vinnytsia region, bombarding the skies with 90 drones and cruise missiles and damaging 23 homes, home to as many people, including a 7-year-old girl, who died. Not far from where Im writing, the Russian Armed Forces injured 23 people, including 6 children, in an attack on Zaporizhzhia that to call ferocious is an understatement. Between artillery, rocket-propelled shells, and drones, they launched 720 rounds in less than 24 hours on this oblast alone.More generally, yesterday, Moscow attacked Ukraine with 705 weapons, deliberately targeting mostly civilian sites with 653 drones and 52 other missiles of various types.
Over 37,000 attacks took place on the front lines. The occupiers are storming the Pokrovsk area to reclaim its rubble, despite the intervention of Ukrainian paratroopers from the GUPR special forces in recent hours to prevent this plan. Fighting is now street-to-street and bloody.
This is the context for Donald Trumps latest cynical peace effort, which consists in claiming thattheres no last straw that can break the camels backto show that Putin doesnt even want a truce. Saying thatsometimes you have to let the conflict play out, letting them fight among themselves,Trump has decided to wash his hands of the matter, believing that the American withdrawal will hasten the Ukrainian resistance in the Donbas and lead to the eventual fall of Pokrovsk. But from there to reality lies the Ukrainian Resistance.Immense, extraordinary. Superhuman.Fighting like titans, the Ukrainians repelled the Russian offensive at Myrnohrad, broke the enemy salient at Kupiansk, and neutralized over two hundred Russian raiders who had penetrated Pokrovsk.
Although the situation remains critical, contrary to what Donald Trump and peace theorists believe argueing that Ukrainian surrender is necessarythe eventual fall of Pokrovsk, due to Western disengagement, would by no means lead to the collapse of Donbas.
First of all,Pokrovsk is not part of the so-called Donbas fortress belt which includes cities such as Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivka, and Druzhkivkabut is right on its doorstep. That unified fortified zone marks the Donbas front. Pokrovsk does not, even though it was an important logistics and energy hub for Ukraine, and losing its coal mines would be a severe blow.Putin knows full well that Pokrovsk is not the key to Ukrainian Donbas, but he believes that capturing it would prove him right politically in the eyes of those who see every missile sent to Ukraine as a waste. Conversely,the Ukrainians defend Pokrovsk because it symbolizes their resilience against the Russian invader and Western apathy.
The inadequate military support of the free world Ukraine fights for makes the conflict even more dire.The Russians are gathering large amounts of military equipment and troops in Pokrovsk, relocating them from other fronts, such as nearby Kostiantynivka. At the same time, they are urging Trump to persuade Zelensky to give up the impenetrable Donbas defensive belt which does not include Pokrovsk thereby giving them control over the rest of Ukraine. This has led to increased bombings of cities and the destruction on the front described above. The approach of peace, according to Donald Trump.
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在过去的三年里，作为自由撰稿人，我们一直在乌克兰战争的所有前线进行报道，自从大规模
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抵抗冷漠：波科罗夫斯克不是顿巴斯的门户
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
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第聂伯（Dnipro）战火在各个战线持续蔓延，乌克兰城市遭受越来越多的攻击。这就是唐纳德川普所谓的和平努力所导致的结果。昨晚，至少三次激烈的爆炸震动了第聂伯罗，一处民用设施被俄军导弹击中。这仅是全国各地每日被轰炸的众多非军事目标之一。甚至在美国撤出和平努力之前，俄罗斯就已经表示拒绝遵守国际法的一切原则；然而，如今没有超级大国愿意施加限制，俄罗斯可以逍遥法外的采取行动。
（图：我在撰写本文后，在乌克兰第聂伯的一处避难所附近拍摄版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
仅在过去一周，俄罗斯就向乌克兰城市投下了1170枚制导空炸弹，发射了近1500架无人机，以及另外70多枚各类导弹，包括弹道导弹和巡航导弹。乌克兰总统谈到这些国际社会未能给予充分回应的破坏行动时，呼吁盟友行动起来，他表示：这不是正常人的作战方式。
其中一枚导弹瞄准的是斯拉维扬斯克的发电厂，造成两人死亡，整个顿涅茨克地区停电数小时。另一枚导弹击中了切尔尼希夫的电视塔，这个城市目前正遭受15小时的空袭围困。还有一些瞄准袭击了苏梅的民用基础设施，包括医疗设施造成那里15人受伤被急救，其中包括4名儿童。俄军还袭击了赫尔松的市场，造成两名平民死亡、7人受伤。
俄军发射了一枚装有集束弹头的伊斯坎德尔M弹道导弹袭击尼古拉耶夫，弹头击中了一座加油站，造成1人死亡，19人受伤，其中包括1名九岁的女孩。俄军对文尼察地区发动了联合袭击，发射了90架无人机和巡航导弹，造成23座房屋受损，包括1名7岁女孩在内的平民不幸遇难。就在我撰写本文的地方附近，俄军在扎波罗热发动的袭击造成23人受伤，其中包括6名儿童，用凶猛描述这场袭击都显得轻描淡写。在大炮、火箭弹和无人机之间，仅在24小时内，俄军在该地区就发射了720发子弹。总体来看，莫斯科昨天用705枚武器袭击了乌克兰，653架无人机和52枚其他类型的导弹蓄意瞄准的目标主要是民用设施。
前线发生了超过3万次袭击。侵略者正猛烈攻击波科罗夫斯克地区，试图夺回这片废墟，但最近几小时，来自GUPR特种部队的乌克兰伞兵进行了干预，阻止了敌人的计划。现在正在进行巷战，非常血腥激烈。
（图：很多乌克兰人每天用手工制作伪装网（如背后那些）支持乌军抵抗，我与其中一位的合影版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
这就是唐纳德川普最新的愤世嫉俗的和平努力的背景，他的言论相当犬牙交错，声称没有能压垮骆驼的最后一根稻草，意在表明普京甚至不想停战。川普说，有时候你必须让冲突自然发展，让他们自己战斗，并决定袖手旁观，认为美国的撤退会加快乌克兰在顿巴斯的抵抗，最终导致波科罗夫斯克的陷落。然而，从这一点到现实之间，乌克兰的抵抗是真实存在的，巨大而非凡的、超人般的。乌克兰人像巨人一样反击俄罗斯的攻势，击退了在马伊尔诺哈尔德的进攻，打破了在库皮扬斯克的突击，并消灭了超过两百名闯入波科罗夫斯克的俄罗斯突击队。
尽管局势依然严峻，但与唐纳德川普及和平理论家们所认为的乌克兰投降是必要的相反，因西方的撤退，波科罗夫斯克的最终陷落并不意味着顿巴斯的崩溃。
首先，波科罗夫斯克并不属于所谓的顿巴斯防御带后者包括斯洛维扬斯克、克拉马托尔斯克、科斯捷亚宁夫卡和德鲁日基夫卡等城市而是位于其门口。这片统一的防御区标志着顿巴斯前线。虽然波科罗夫斯克不是，但它是乌克兰重要的后勤和能源枢纽，失去其煤矿将是一次巨大的打击。普京非常清楚波科罗夫斯克并非乌克兰顿巴斯的关键，但他相信，在那些认为每一枚导弹送往乌克兰都毫无价值的人眼中，占领它可以证明自己在政治上的正确。相反，乌克兰人捍卫波科罗夫斯克，是因为它象征着他们抵抗俄国侵略者和西方冷漠的坚韧。
自由世界对乌克兰的军事实援不足，使局势变得更加危急。俄罗斯正从邻近的科斯捷亚宁夫卡等前线调动大量军事装备和兵力集中到波科罗夫斯克。同时，他们还在敦促川普说服泽连斯基放弃那块无法穿透的顿巴斯防御带（不包括波科罗夫斯克），以便夺取乌克兰其余地区的控制权。这导致对城市的轰炸和上述前线的破坏加剧。根据唐纳德川普的说法，这是和平的方法。
（图：这是我为意大利报纸La Ragione所写的专栏版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
