乌克兰鲍里斯皮尔/顿涅茨克地区，9月25日电——“你什么时候回来？”两岁的斯尼扎娜问正在乌克兰东部服役于一个炮兵部队的父亲。
BORYSPIL/DONETSK REGION, Ukraine, Sept 25 - "When are you coming?" two-year-old Snizhana asked her father, a soldier serving with an artillery unit in eastern Ukraine.
叶夫根尼·博里先科在数百英里外的手机屏幕前笑着准备回答，这时附近传来三声巨响，迫使他匆匆结束了通话。“好吧，宝贝，我稍后再给你打电话！”
Smiling into his smartphone hundreds of miles away, Yevheniy Borysenko started to reply when three loud explosions nearby forced him to cut the conversation short. "Okay, bunny, I'll call you later!"
成千上万的乌克兰家庭因战争而分离，这增加了前线生存的压力，也让远离前线的地区面临更大危险，因为俄罗斯加大了对全国的导弹和无人机袭击。
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian families have been separated by the war, adding to the stress of survival on the front lines and the growing dangers further away as Russia escalates missile and drone attacks across the country.
叶夫根尼的妻子阿丽娜和女儿斯尼扎娜，以及她前婚所生的11岁女叶利扎维塔，住在基辅东南部的鲍里斯皮尔。
Yevheniy's wife, Alina, lives with Snizhana and Yelyzaveta, her 11-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, in Boryspil, southeast of Kyiv.
这对夫妇于2023年全面战争的第二年在一个交友网站相识，几个月后结婚。斯尼扎娜于2024年初出生，只有父亲休假回家时才能见到他。
The couple met on a dating website in 2023, the second year of the full-scale war, and married several months later. Snizhana was born in early 2024 but only sees her father when he takes home leave.
他的探亲很少，往往突如其来且时间很短，这反映了作为一名乌克兰士兵、面对装备更精良、规模更大的俄罗斯军队作战时生活的不可预测性。
His visits are rare, often unexpected and usually short, reflecting the unpredictability of life as a Ukrainian soldier fighting a larger and better-equipped Russian army.
“每次他来看我，简直太棒了！惊喜！意想不到！”32岁的阿丽娜坐在公寓楼外的儿童游乐区长椅上看着斯尼扎娜玩耍，说道。
"Every time he comes to visit me, it's just wow! A surprise! Unexpected!" said Alina, 32, as she sat on a bench watching Snizhana play in a children's area outside her apartment block.
“然后他的战友就打电话叫他：‘再去那边（前线）！’我的心又碎了一次。他只能见孩子几个小时，就这样。” 威胁与日俱增35岁的叶夫根尼服役于第43独立炮兵旅，驻扎在顿涅茨克，这是乌克兰东部一个争夺激烈的地区，俄罗斯军队多年来一直试图完全控制该地区。
"And then his colleagues call him: 'Go there (to the front) again!' And once again, everything inside me just breaks. He saw his child for a couple of hours, and that's it." GROWING THREATS Yevheniy, 35, serves with the 43rd Separate Artillery Brigade in Donetsk, a fiercely contested region in eastern Ukraine which Russian forces have been trying to take full control of for several years. "When he goes to his position, I worry about him so much, probably more than he worries about himself," Alina said.
“当他去阵地时，我为他担心得要命，可能比他担心自己还要厉害，”阿丽娜说。担心是双向的。
The worry goes both ways.
近几个月来，乌克兰和俄罗斯陷入升级的空战，让远离前线的城镇和城市生活也变得更加危险。
In recent months, Ukraine and Russia have engaged in an escalating air war, making life more dangerous in towns and cities far from the front.
喷气式俄罗斯无人机和弹道导弹将对乌克兰平民的威胁提升至战争初期以来的最高水平。虽然俄罗斯平民伤亡人数要低得多，但今年也急剧上升。
Jet-powered Russian drones and ballistic missiles have raised the threat to Ukrainian civilians to its highest level since the early stages of the war. Russian civilian casualties, while much lower, have also risen sharply this year.
本月早些时候，博里先科家附近的一栋公寓楼在一次此类袭击中严重受损。
An apartment block close to the Borysenkos' home was badly damaged earlier this month during one such attack.
“我不想让孩子听到这些爆炸声，”叶夫根尼在顿涅茨克一个不愿透露的地点值班间隙说道。
"I don't want my child to hear these explosions," said Yevheniy, speaking at an undisclosed location in Donetsk during a break in his duties.
“当‘见证者’无人机飞向鲍里斯皮尔时，我让妻子带着孩子们去外婆的村庄……因为孩子们晚上会害怕。妻子对她们说：‘是雷雨，雷雨’，两岁半的女儿却说：‘砰砰！’。”阿丽娜目前至少没有远走他乡的打算。
"When Shahed drones were flying toward Boryspil, I asked my wife to take them to their grandmother's village ... Because children get scared at night. My wife tells them: 'It's a thunderstorm, a thunderstorm,' and my daughter, who's two-and-a-half, says: 'Bang-bang!'." Alina has no intention of going far, at least for now.
“我会留在这里，因为我的大女儿出生在这里，小女儿也出生在这里，我的丈夫在这里，婆婆也在这里。我想待在这里！” 路透社
"I'll stay here because my older daughter was born here, my younger daughter was born here, my husband is here, my mother-in-law is here. I want to be here!" REUTERS