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BBC発 : Bakhmut defenders plea for Western tanks

2023年1月17日(Tue.)17:00UP     :   何度でも言う、ロシア国民よ決起せよ、日和見主義と決別せよ、プーチン政権を打倒せよ、金権政治とオサラバせよ! (ニュースソース: BBC  1月17日発 )

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Ukraine war: Bakhmut defenders plea for Western tanks

(注: 写真は転載不可)

Ukraine is pleading for Western-made, modern tanks to fight off the Russians

As the UK and other European nations prepare to send tanks to Ukraine to help it liberate more territory from Russia, our correspondent Andrew Harding has been to visit members of a front-line Ukrainian tank unit already engaging Russian forces near the fiercely contested towns of Bakhmut and Soledar.

The explosions come every few seconds, sometimes in rapid clusters of six or more short blasts, sometimes deep and long and rib-cage-rattling, thundering across the snow-speckled hills that stretch along the front lines close to Bakhmut and Soledar.

Then come the distant booms, the shorter punch of a mortar round blasting off on the roadside, and, occasionally, the bone-chilling, fizzing whoosh of an incoming artillery shell that sends us diving for cover on the frozen fields.

This is the daily, constant, percussive chorus of war in the Donbas, where Ukrainian and Russian artillery, rocket and tank crews are slugging it out, trading blows in a fierce, but largely inconclusive struggle to break a months-long deadlock.

 

"We have a target," said Roman, a Ukrainian tank unit commander, suddenly pulling off his gloves, clambering up onto the slippery, snow-covered turret of a dark green T-72 tank, and swinging open a heavy steel hatch.

(注: 以下、転載省略。 原文サイトは下記のリンクへ )

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ロシアは対艦ミサイルをウクライナの民間居住域(アパートビル)に打ち込んでいます。これによってこれまでに35人の死者と35人ほどの行方不明者が出ています。プーチン政権は、人の命を何とも思っていません。彼らにとって大切なのは自分達の権益だけなのです。ロシア国民は良くもこんな体制を黙認できるものですね。プーチンの資産や愛人の資産が法外であることを知っているのでしょうか?!

*** 下の写真は、記事内容とは関係ありません。

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