在赫尔松的杀戮地带，距俄军仅六百米
In the Kherson Kill Zone, Six Hundred Meters Far From the Russians
By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine
Kherson – Around 3:00 PM on Wednesday, a fiber-optic-driven russian drone reached the northern outskirts of Kharkiv for the first time, raising concernsamong military radio-technology expert (and advisor to the Ukrainian Defense Minister) Serhiy “Flash” Beskrestnov. The regional prosecutor’s office for that oblast’ confirmed the news, and several media outlets picked it up, using photos and maps to explain how the quadcopter traveled 23.4 km before striking a tree and landing in the snow.
Here in Kherson, that precious fiber is entirely incidental, since Russian drone operators have long been able to saturate the sky with radio-frequency drones launched from the opposite bank of the Dnipro. The distance is so short that any technological frills beyond explosives are superfluous: 600 meters.
When, at best – gracias vobis – some foreign delegation was taking a selfie in Kyiv to commemorate the fifth year of the war Russia has unleashed on a large scale in Ukraine – the thirteenth since its invasion – we were here: six hundred meters from those targeting the civilians of Kherson as human prey.
In a video reportage recorded for the YouTube channel of the Italian newspaper “La Ragione”, we documented how not a single building remained intact. Shot after shot, the Russian military demolished the entire historic center of the city with ruthless and obsessive precision, chasing defenseless victims right into shops and homes. The intersection of Voronchovska and Preobrajenska streets – which we filmed deserted, during rush hour and in the height of summer already in 2024 – is now a place so arid and inhospitable that nature has prevailed over buildings. Russian drones have targeted that too, dropping incendiary devices even on the bushes. Some buildings have been bombed five or more times, each time destroying what volunteers and civil engineers had barely restored. Already looted during the Russian occupation, the History Museum – which, among the symbols of the free world’s resistance to tyranny, also displays our worn-out clothing and chevrons – stubbornly resists the snipers of modern warfare: the sandbags at the windows, behind which we barricaded ourselves to film a clip when the city was liberated, stopped bullets and shrapnel, but what surrounds them is a sieve where rags and stones float with each new shot. Under the rows of trees on the edge of Ushakova vulitsia, just yesterday we noticed at least five car wrecks, a couple of them still smoking. Along that main artery of Kherson, which flows into the Dnipro, the headquarters of the regional administration from which we tooksome now historic shots is today a pile of rubble: as we documented last August, the Moscow Air Force dropped two high-tonnage KABs on it, almost completely demolishing it.
Since the war it unleashed began, the Russian Federation has fired more than 700,000 rounds of various types at Kherson. In January alone, the city was attacked approximately 500 times. Just last week, over a thousand drones rained down on our heads. More than 140 a day. Since months, those who pilot them have also been using them to litter roads, fields, and ruins with leaf mines: devices completely indistinguishable from rubble and foliage that maim and kill every hour.
Civilians are the targets, because the goal is always the same: to turn Kherson into a ghostly land incompatible with life, from which to flee, leaving the field open for the Russkij Mir.
Other quadcopters have long been used as mines, capable of waiting for people or vehicles for weeks and then taking flight, striking them as they pass. Still others are effectively loitering munitions, floating indefinitely in the air hundreds of meters above the ground before plummeting in a fraction of a second at over 130 km/h into defenseless human targets.
Every flight of a swallow, every buzz, every leaf or stone becomes a source of anguish.
Wandering through the ruins of such a kill zone, gaze feverishly between heaven and earth in the deserted streets of Kherson, the chatter of people at dinner or in other convivial moments often filters through the plywood panels and wooden planks nailed to the windows of eroded buildings. This buzz is often interrupted by the cawing of digital vultures, vectors of a death that in Kharkiv flows along a wire and here wanders within sight.
What the Russians are using in Kherson is not psychological or tactical pressure but the systemic saturation of a permanent no-go zone.
The transformation of this city recalls that suffered by Mariupol’ in 2022 due to physical annihilation, by Grozny in the 1990s due to the methodical demolition of its urban fabric, and by Aleppo due to human depopulation. Except that here, there is no total siege underway, but rather a continuous selective hunt.
In Kherson, there are no duels. There’s a chase.
Its urban space has become a predatory environment where killers who face no operational risk chase even children. In a previous video report, we reported the testimony of an 11-year-old boy who saw his best friend bleed to death while playing with him in the park. He was torn to pieces by someone who had targeted him from inside a bunker a few hundred meters away, in a human safari lacking symmetry. In this scenario, there is no reciprocity, so much so that even calling the attacker a “soldier” is superfluous.
What we’ve been describing for years now is the ontological transformation of the battlefield: cities reduced to programmed hostile ecosystems, overwhelmed by emptying.
Home, for us, here.
The ongoing blackouts severely damaged our house’s heating system in Western Ukraine while we were in the Donbas.
Without electricity, the pump couldn’t circulate the liquid while the fire was lit. As a result, the system caught fire, and the whole house was at risk of burning. Fortunately, it did not, but the whole system needs to be changed, and the house needs to be restored. Tubes are all bent, walls are blackened by haze, and the heating system doesn’t work, requiring an entirely new system.
We are doing our best since Alla’s parents live there, but there’s still a lot to work on here, too, as the people around us are in no better situation.
We’re renewing our fundraising campaign and thanking everyone who joins us in helping us restore what Russia is destroying. Even a small donation helps. We’ll keep you updated on developments.
Thank you all, dear friends
在赫尔松的杀戮地带，距俄军仅六百米
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
翻译：旺财球球
乌克兰前线报道
赫尔松——周三下午大约三点，一架由光纤引导的俄制无人机首次抵达哈尔科夫北郊，这一事态引起了军用无线电技术专家（同时也是乌克兰国防部长顾问）谢尔希·“闪电”·别斯克雷斯特诺夫的关注。该州地区检察院已证实此消息，数家媒体报道并配以照片与地图，解释该四旋翼无人机如何在击中树木并坠落在雪中之前飞行了23.4公里。
（图片来源与版权：RBK）
在赫尔松，这根宝贵的光纤并不重要，因为俄方无人机操作者早已能从第聂伯河对岸发射射频无人机使天空饱和。距离如此之短，以至于除了炸药之外任何技术花哨的东西都是多余的：600米。
当某些外国代表团在基辅自拍以纪念俄国对乌克兰发动大规模战争的第五年——也是自入侵以来的第十三年时——我们就在这里：距那些以赫尔松平民为猎物的袭击者六百米远的地方。
（图：我在写这篇文章前不久拍了这张照片。反无人机网之上的牌子写着“欢迎来到英雄城市赫尔松” ——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
在为意大利报纸“La Ragione”的YouTube频道录制的视频报道中，我们记录到几乎没有一座建筑完好无损。俄军一次又一次无情地、偏执般准确地摧毁了这座城市的整个历史中心，将手无寸铁的受害者驱赶到商店和住家内。早在2024年高峰和盛夏时段我们就曾拍到的沃隆乔夫斯卡街与普里奥布拉任斯卡街交叉口，如今已荒凉不堪，大自然已经战胜了建筑物。俄方无人机甚至连那里也不放过，对灌木投放燃烧弹。一些建筑被轰炸五次或更多，每一次都毁掉志愿者和土木工程师刚刚修复的部分。历史博物馆在俄罗斯占领期间曾被洗劫；作为自由世界抵抗暴政的象征之一，它也陈列着我们磨损的衣物与臂章——顽固抵抗现代战斗的狙击手：窗台上的沙袋曾在城市解放时挡住子弹和弹片，那时我们曾在其后进行拍摄，但其周遭已成筛子，每次新一轮射击都使破布与石块翻涌。就在乌沙科夫街边的树列下，昨天我们至少发现五辆车的残骸，其中几辆仍在冒烟。沿着通往第聂伯河的赫尔松主干道，我们曾拍下具有历史意义的地区行政总部，如今已成瓦砾堆：正如我们去年八月记录的，莫斯科空军向其投下了两枚大吨位制导炸弹，几乎将其夷为平地。
（图：我们在2024年从哈尔科夫州行政中心报道时为Alla拍摄的一张照片——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（图：几天前，我们在2026年2月24日从哈尔科夫州行政中心报道时为Alla拍摄的一张照片 ——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
自这场战争爆发以来，俄联邦向赫尔松发射了超过70万发各类弹药。仅今年一月，该市就遭受约500次袭击。就在上周，超过一千架无人机向我们头顶倾泻。每天超过140架。数月来，操控者还利用无人机在道路、田野与废墟中散布“叶雷”（叶状地雷）：这些装置与瓦砾与树叶完全难以区分，整日整夜致残并夺命。
平民成为目标，因为（敌方）目的始终如一：把赫尔松变成一个不宜居住的鬼城，迫使人们逃离，从而为“俄罗斯世界”腾出空间。
其他四旋翼无人机长久以来也被作为地雷使用，能够等待人或车辆数周，随后起飞，在目标经过时袭击。还有些无人机实际上是滞空弹药，它们在地面数百米高空长期徘徊，然后在一瞬间以超过130公里/小时的速度坠落，袭击毫无防备的人类目标。
每一次燕子般的掠过、每一次嗡嗡声、每一片落叶或石子都成为恐惧的源头。
（图：我与Alla在赫尔松市中心拍摄报道时紧张地凝视天空 ——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
徘徊在这片杀戮地带的废墟中，在赫尔松荒芜的街巷里，我的目光在天地之间疯狂扫视，人们晚餐或社交时的低语常常穿过钉在风化建筑窗户上的夹板与木板传来。这种嗡嗡声常被数字秃鹰（无人机）的呜鸣打断，那是死亡的载体：在哈尔科夫，死亡沿着一根线流动；在这里，死亡就在眼前游荡。
（地图来源：Maptiler）
俄军在赫尔松采用的不是心理或战术压力，而是系统性地把这里变成永久的禁区。
这座城市的变形让人想起2022年马里乌波尔因实体毁灭所遭受的折磨、上世纪90年代格罗兹尼因有计划地拆除城市结构所遭受的破坏，以及阿勒颇因人口外流而发生的衰落。但不同的是，这里并非全面围城，而是持续的有选择性的猎杀。
在赫尔松，没有对决，只有追捕。
其城市空间已成为一个围猎场，凶手们没有任何作战风险，甚至追逐儿童。在之前的视频报道中，我们记录了一名11岁男孩的证词：他在公园与朋友玩耍时目睹好友流血而死。那孩子被一个从几百米外的掩体中瞄准他的人撕裂，像一场不对等的人类狩猎。在这种情形中，不存在对打，甚至称攻击者为“士兵”都是多余的。
这些年来我们一直在描述的，是战场的本体论性转变：城市被降格为程序化的敌对生态系统，被清空吞噬。
家，对我们来说，在这里。
（图：我在撰写本文前不久在乌克兰赫尔松拍了这张照片 ——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
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持续的停电严重损坏了我们在乌克兰西部的家中的供暖系统，而我们当时就在顿巴斯。
没有电，点着的炉火无法通过水泵循环热水。结果，系统起火，整个房子面临着烧毁的风险。幸而未被烧毁，但整个系统需要更换，房子也需要修复。管道都是歪的，墙壁被烟雾熏黑，供暖系统无法正常工作，需要彻底更换。
我们正在尽最大努力，因为Alla的父母住在那里，但这里还有许多工作要做，周围的人处境也好不到哪儿去。
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