俄罗斯制造的喷气式无人机袭击了乌克兰国家科学院——这个机构几乎孕育了该国所有重要的科学发现。
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
当时正值工作日，地点就在乌克兰首都的中心地带。周一，这架无人机击中了国家科学院，导致大楼的顶层两层起火，人们不得不从窗户逃出，等待救援。
There was no place to escape. In the middle of a workday, in the middle of the Ukrainian capital, a Russian jet-powered drone struck the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, setting the top two floors on fire and forcing people to crawl out of windows to await rescue.
消防员正在努力扑灭火势，而这个机构的工作人员们则只能通过梯子安全撤离。
As firefighters worked to put out the blaze, employees of an institution that has accounted for almost all major scientific discoveries in Ukraine were forced to climb down ladders to safety.
无人机袭击发生在基辅时间下午1点30分左右，当时大部分员工正在办公室里吃午饭。受伤者被紧急送往大楼外的街道上接受治疗。这座建筑始建于19世纪50年代，最初是为一位女伯爵设立的寄宿学校，其外观以黄色、粉色和白色为主色调。
As firefighters worked to put out the blaze, employees of an institution that has accounted for almost all major scientific discoveries in Ukraine were forced to climb down ladders to safety. The drone hit just before 1:30 p.m. Kyiv time, when people at the academy were on lunch break but most were eating in their offices. The injured were treated on the sidewalk outside the building — a yellow, pink and white architectural landmark originally designed in the 1850s to be a countess’s boarding school for girls.
“我的办公室已经毁了，”65岁的科学院副首席科学家维拉·叶夫拉福娃说，“它位于二楼，所有东西都毁了。”几周来，俄罗斯一直在使用喷气式无人机持续轰炸基辅，而乌克兰现有的防空系统难以有效拦截这些无人机。如今，基辅的日常生活总是伴随着防空炮火的轰鸣声，随后就会传来无人机袭击的警报——目标可能是数据中心、街道、加油站、仓库或高层建筑。
“My office is gone now,” said Vira Yevhrafova, 65, deputy chief scientist at the academy. “It was on the second floor — everything has collapsed, everything.” Russia has been pounding Kyiv around the clock for weeks with new jet-powered drones, which have proved difficult to knock down with Ukraine’s current air defenses. Daily life in the capital is now punctuated by the rat-a-tat of air-defense guns, followed by a drone hitting something — a data center, a random street, a gas station, a warehouse, a high-rise building.
周一的袭击至少造成1人死亡、6人受伤，还有1人失踪。这类袭击已经变得司空见惯，除非袭击造成的破坏非常严重，否则几乎不会被国际媒体报道。遇难者的女儿赶到现场后悲痛欲绝，但她什么也说不出来。
The attack on Monday killed at least one person and injured six. One man was missing. It is a typical toll for these drone strikes, now so regular they barely make the international news unless the images are particularly dramatic. The daughter of the woman who died showed up at the building and burst into tears. She was sad and angry but had nothing else to say.
乌克兰民众对那些才华横溢的科学家们不得不逃离燃烧中的办公室的景象感到痛心。“这场战争真是太愚蠢了，”乌克兰军方中尉、前政府官员安德烈·科瓦连科在社交媒体上写道，并附上了一张两人从窗户爬出的照片。
Ukrainians lamented the sight of brilliant scientific minds fleeing their burning offices. “What an idiotic war,” Andriy Kovalenko, a lieutenant in Ukraine’s military and a former government official, posted on social media along with a photo of two people crawling out of windows.
对这所科学研究院的袭击，仅仅是救援人员和军事无人机拦截团队忙碌一天的开始。不到两小时后，另一架无人机袭击了位于南部约一英里处的一家诊所；再过一小时，另一架无人机在撞击附近建筑物时被成功拦截。
The attack on the sciences academy was just the start of a busy day for rescue workers and military drone interception teams. Less than two hours later, another drone hit a clinic about a mile south. An hour after that, a drone was intercepted right as it hit a nearby building.
基辅又发生了一起致命袭击，又有一具尸体被用布盖住后被运走。乌克兰民众再次意识到：俄罗斯正试图通过轰炸迫使他们屈服。
The attack on the sciences academy was just the start of a busy day for rescue workers and military drone interception teams. Less than two hours later, another drone hit a clinic about a mile south. An hour after that, a drone was intercepted right as it hit a nearby building.
“他们现在的目的就是恐吓我们，让我们的生活陷入停滞，”43岁的维拉·巴拉诺夫斯卡说。她和9岁的女儿从燃烧中的研究院旁走过。“他们的目标不仅仅是摧毁仓库（从而让我们没有食物），他们还想让我们无法工作、学习、进行科学研究，或者做任何事情。”埃韦利娜·里亚贝恩科参与了这篇报道的撰写。
After yet another fatal strike in Kyiv, with yet another body covered by a sheet and then carted away, Ukrainians again took stock of Russia’s effort to bomb them into submission. “I think what they want now is to frighten us and bring our lives to a halt,” said Vira Balanovska, 43, who walked with her 9-year-old daughter past the burning academy. “It’s not just about attacking warehouses so that we won’t have food. They also want to intimidate us — to make it so that we can’t work, study, do scientific research or really do anything at all.” Evelina Riabenko contributed reporting.
金·巴克是《纽约时报》的记者，专门撰写关于乌克兰战争的深度报道；玛丽亚·瓦列尼科娃则负责报道乌克兰与俄罗斯之间的战争情况。
Kim Barker is a Times reporter writing in-depth stories about the war in Ukraine. Maria Varenikova covers Ukraine and its war with Russia.