Russia hammers Ukrainian rail and transport hubs near key fronts
KYIV, Sept 12 (Reuters) -Russian forces knocked out power and water to a rail hub in northern Ukraine and severed water supplies to the eastern town of Pokrovsk on Thursday, causing disruption behind front lines as they try to advance on the battlefield.俄罗斯军队周四切断了乌克兰北部一个铁路枢纽的电力和水供应，并切断了乌克兰东部城镇波克罗夫斯克的供水，试图在战场上推进的同时扰乱前线后的局势。More than 2-1/2 years since Russia's invasion, the war in Ukraine is at a critical juncture, with Moscow regularly pounding Ukrainian infrastructure as its troops try to complete the capture of the whole of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.自俄罗斯入侵乌克兰以来，战争已持续了两年半以上，目前正处于关键时刻，俄罗斯不断打击乌克兰的基础设施，企图完成对乌克兰东部顿巴斯地区的全面占领。The United States says Iran has supplied hundreds of ballistic missiles to Russia in a major escalation. Moscow has warned the West against greenlighting deep strikes into Russian territory with Western weapons, warning it would respond.美国表示，伊朗向俄罗斯提供了数百枚弹道导弹，这标志着局势的重大升级。俄罗斯警告西方国家不要批准使用西方武器对俄罗斯领土进行深度打击，否则将会作出回应。Russian forces have been gaining ground in parts of east Ukraine including Pokrovsk, whose capture could enable Moscow to open up new lines of attack and complicate Ukrainian logistics in the east.俄军在乌克兰东部的部分地区，包括波克罗夫斯克，正在取得进展，若该地被占领，俄罗斯可能会开辟新的进攻路线，并使乌克兰东部的后勤供应更加复杂。Donetsk's regional governor said a filtering station had stopped working because of heavy fighting, severing the water supply to Pokrovsk. He said it would be impossible to fix soon and renewed calls to civilians to flee the town.顿涅茨克地区州长表示，由于激烈战斗，过滤站已停止运作，导致波克罗夫斯克的供水中断。他表示短期内无法修复，并再次呼吁平民撤离该镇。"The situation is difficult and it won't get better soon. So I again call on you to evacuate!" the official, Vadym Filashkin, wrote in a statement on the Telegram messaging app.这位官员瓦迪姆·费拉什金在Telegram消息应用上写道：“情况很困难，而且短期内不会好转。所以我再次呼吁你们撤离！”
The town, which straddles several important roads that pass through the Donetsk region and has a rail line, has also lost supply of electricity and gas used for cooking and heating, local authorities said.当地当局表示，这个横跨顿涅茨克地区几条重要道路并拥有铁路线路的城镇，也失去了用于烹饪和取暖的电力和天然气供应。Russian momentum has slowed in the areas nearest Pokrovsk, but Moscow's forces have pressed south from that line of attack, closing in on the nearby town of Ukrainsk, open-source intelligence reports by Ukraine's Deep State analysts indicate.俄罗斯在波克罗夫斯克附近的进攻势头已经放缓，但俄罗斯的军队已从这一进攻线路向南推进，逼近附近的乌克兰斯克镇，乌克兰的Deep State分析师根据公开情报报告指出。Ukraine's military said their forces on the nearby Kurakhiv front, which includes Ukrainsk, were continuing to hold back Moscow's troops. Russia tried to break through Kyiv's lines in the area 23 times over the last day, it said.乌克兰军方表示，他们在包括乌克兰斯克在内的库拉希夫前线的部队，正在继续抵挡俄罗斯的军队。乌方称，俄罗斯在过去一天内试图23次突破乌克兰在该地区的防线。Some Russian military bloggers said Moscow's forces had almost taken control of Ukrainsk, which had a pre-war population of more than 10,000. There was no immediate update from Russia on its advance in the area.一些俄罗斯军事博主表示，俄罗斯的军队几乎控制了Ukrainsk，这个镇在战前的人口超过1万。俄罗斯尚未就其在该地区的进展提供即时更新。