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Fall of Ukrainian city of Bakhmut would not mean a strategic win for Russia:
Pentagon
烏克蘭城市巴哈姆特的淪陷並不意味著俄羅斯的戰略勝利：五角大樓
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.
對巴哈姆特的爭奪已經持續了幾個月，但根據國防部長勞埃德·奧斯汀的說法，俄羅斯對
頓涅茨克市的勝利並不能證明對莫斯科具有戰略優勢。
"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."
“我認為它更多的是像徵性價值，而不是戰略和運營價值，”
奧斯汀週一在約旦對記者說。
“巴赫穆特的陷落並不一定意味著俄羅斯人已經改變了這場戰鬥的趨勢。”
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.
奧斯汀表示，他不會預測莫斯科是否能夠成功奪取巴哈姆特，烏克蘭和俄羅斯軍隊都表示
這是一場殘酷的戰鬥。
"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，俄羅斯人繼續湧入大量訓練不良、裝備簡陋的軍隊，這些軍隊很快
就會死亡，”奧斯汀說，他指的是俄羅斯新兵和瓦格納去年從俄羅斯監獄系統撤出的力量
。
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.
烏克蘭官員表示，爭奪巴赫穆特的戰鬥是迄今為止最艱難的戰鬥之一，因為儘管損失慘重
，俄羅斯仍繼續向頓涅茨克地區派遣人員。
"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.
武裝部隊總參謀部周一表示：“敵人，無論損失如何，都不會停止襲擊巴赫穆特市及其周
邊地區。”
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戰鬥中喪生，經過四個多月的殘酷地面和空戰後，
巴赫穆特幾乎全軍覆沒，一些烏克蘭軍隊上週將其描述為一座“著火的城市”。
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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.
俄羅斯的瓦格納僱傭軍組織帶頭進攻這座城市，並試圖採用與今年早些時候佔領索萊達時
類似的戰術，包圍該鎮。
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."
奧斯汀還將俄羅斯在該地區取得的任何進展歸功於僱傭軍，但他表示，瓦格納與俄羅斯軍
方之間的分歧越來越明顯，他說：“矛盾就在那裡。”
"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."
“我會說瓦格納部隊比俄羅斯部隊更有效一些，”他告訴記者。 “話雖如此，我們還沒
有看到俄羅斯軍隊的模範表現。”
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.
長期以來，國防官員一直認為，俄羅斯奪取巴哈姆特的努力在戰略上並沒有與其在烏克蘭
前線的一個地區投入的資源數量相關的任何戰術優勢。
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."
就在該地區開始激烈的戰鬥之後，英國國防部在 12 月初指出，與俄羅斯“可能獲得的收
益”相比，為巴哈姆特而戰對俄羅斯來說已經“付出了不成比例的代價”。
"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 月上旬以來，俄羅斯已將巴哈姆特作為其主要攻勢，”該部在一份情報更
新中表示。 “佔領該鎮的行動價值有限。
"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.
“有一種現實的可能性是，奪取巴哈姆特已成為俄羅斯主要的象徵性政治目標，”該部在
三個多月前表示。
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