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Fall of Ukrainian city of Bakhmut would not mean a strategic win for Russia:
Pentagon
乌克兰城市巴哈姆特的沦陷并不意味着俄罗斯的战略胜利：五角大楼
The fight for Bakhmut has been raging for months but, according to Secretary
of Defense Lloyd Austin, a Russian victory over the Donetsk city would not
prove all that strategically advantageous for Moscow.
对巴哈姆特的争夺已经持续了几个月，但根据国防部长劳埃德·奥斯汀的说法，俄罗斯对
顿涅茨克市的胜利并不能证明对莫斯科具有战略优势。
"I think it is more of a symbolic value than it is strategic and operational
value," Austin told reporters from Jordan Monday. "The fall of Bakhmut won't
necessarily mean that the Russians have changed the tide of this fight."
“我认为它更多的是像征性价值，而不是战略和运营价值，”
奥斯汀周一在约旦对记者说。
“巴赫穆特的陷落并不一定意味着俄罗斯人已经改变了这场战斗的趋势。”
Austin said he would not predict whether Moscow would be able to successfully
take Bakhmut, which both Ukrainian and Russian forces have said has been a
brutal fight.
奥斯汀表示，他不会预测莫斯科是否能够成功夺取巴哈姆特，乌克兰和俄罗斯军队都表示
这是一场残酷的战斗。
"What I do see on a daily basis is the Russians continuing to pour in a lot
of ill-trained and ill-equipped troops, and those troops are very quickly
meeting their demise," Austin said, referring to both Russian military
recruits and Wagner forces pulled from the Russian penal system last year.
“我每天都看到的是，俄罗斯人继续涌入大量训练不良、装备简陋的军队，这些军队很快
就会死亡，”奥斯汀说，他指的是俄罗斯新兵和瓦格纳去年从俄罗斯监狱系统撤出的力量
。
Ukrainian officials have said the fight for Bakhmut has been one of the
toughest yet as Russia continues to send men to the Donetsk sector despite
significant losses.
乌克兰官员表示，争夺巴赫穆特的战斗是迄今为止最艰难的战斗之一，因为尽管损失惨重
，俄罗斯仍继续向顿涅茨克地区派遣人员。
"The enemy, regardless of losses, does not stop storming the city of Bakhmut
and its surroundings," the General Staff of the Armed Forces said Monday.
武装部队总参谋部周一表示：“敌人，无论损失如何，都不会停止袭击巴赫穆特市及其周
边地区。”
It is unclear how many soldiers have been killed fighting over Bakhmut, which
has been all but decimated after more than four months of brutal ground and
air warfare, with some Ukrainian troops describing it last week as a city "on
fire."
目前尚不清楚有多少士兵在巴哈姆特的战斗中丧生，经过四个多月的残酷地面和空战后，
巴赫穆特几乎全军覆没，一些乌克兰军队上周将其描述为一座“着火的城市”。
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Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has led the charge for the city and has
attempted to employ similar tactics it used when it took Soledar earlier this
year by encircling the town.
俄罗斯的瓦格纳雇佣军组织带头进攻这座城市，并试图采用与今年早些时候占领索莱达时
类似的战术，包围该镇。
Austin also attributed any Russian progress in the area to the mercenary
troops but suggested the reported divisions between Wagner and the Russian
military were increasingly evident when he said, "The fissures are there."
奥斯汀还将俄罗斯在该地区取得的任何进展归功于雇佣军，但他表示，瓦格纳与俄罗斯军
方之间的分歧越来越明显，他说：“矛盾就在那里。”
"I would say the Wagner forces have been a bit more effective than the
Russian forces," he told reporters. "Having said that, we have not seen
exemplary performance from Russian forces."
“我会说瓦格纳部队比俄罗斯部队更有效一些，”他告诉记者。 “话虽如此，我们还没
有看到俄罗斯军队的模范表现。”
Defense officials have long argued that Russia’s efforts to take Bakhmut do
not hold up strategically with any tactical advantage it would gain in
correlation to the amount of resources it has thrown at just one sector along
the Ukrainian front lines.
长期以来，国防官员一直认为，俄罗斯夺取巴哈姆特的努力在战略上并没有与其在乌克兰
前线的一个地区投入的资源数量相关的任何战术优势。
Just after intense fighting began to kick off in the region, the U.K. defense
ministry in early December pointed out that the fight for Bakhmut had already
become "disproportionately costly" for Russia "relative to [the] possible
gains."
就在该地区开始激烈的战斗之后，英国国防部在 12 月初指出，与俄罗斯“可能获得的收
益”相比，为巴哈姆特而战对俄罗斯来说已经“付出了不成比例的代价”。
"Russia has prioritized Bakhmut as its main offensive effort since early
August 2022," the ministry said during an intelligence update. "The capture
of the town would have limited operational value.
自 2022 年 8 月上旬以来，俄罗斯已将巴哈姆特作为其主要攻势，”该部在一份情报更
新中表示。 “占领该镇的行动价值有限。
"There is a realistic possibility that Bakhmut’s capture has become
primarily a symbolic, political objective for Russia," the ministry argued
over three months ago.
“有一种现实的可能性是，夺取巴哈姆特已成为俄罗斯主要的象征性政治目标，”该部在
三个多月前表示。
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