基辅，10月14日 - 乌克兰高级指挥官周三表示，乌克兰在其最新的反攻行动中，已从俄罗斯军队手中解放了顿涅茨克东部地区的16个村庄，这是他所说的在其他地区俄军空袭加剧的情况下，前线的一次主要推进的一部分。
KYIV, Oct 14 - Ukraine has freed 16 villages from Russian forces in the eastern Donetsk region in its latest counteroffensive, a senior commander said on Wednesday, part of what he called a major frontline pushback amid increased Russian air attacks elsewhere.
基辅第三军团一直在开展上月宣布的行动，旨在驱逐驻扎在战略城市斯洛维亚斯克北部的俄军，斯洛维亚斯克是乌克兰所谓“要塞带”的两大主要据点之一，这一要塞带构成了乌克兰东部防御的基石。
Kyiv's Third Army Corps has waged an operation, announced last month, to dislodge Russian troops north of the strategic city of Sloviansk, one of the two main bastions in Ukraine's so-called "fortress belt" anchoring its eastern defences.
安德里伊·别列茨基准将表示，乌克兰近期的进攻行动已解放了反攻地区的三个更多村庄——这些村庄位于斯洛维亚斯克以北约30公里（19英里）处——使解放领土总面积达到277平方公里（107平方英里），解放的定居点数量达到16个。
Brig. Gen. Andrii Biletskyi said recent Ukrainian assaults had liberated three more villages in the area of the counteroffensive - some 30 km (19 miles) north of Sloviansk - bringing the total of freed territory to 277 square kilometres (107 square miles) and the number of settlements to 16.
俄军在战场上的推进速度今年有所放缓，俄方曾要求乌克兰在停止战斗前割让其仍控制的顿涅茨克地区20%的领土。
Russia, whose pace of battlefield gains has slowed this year, has demanded that Ukraine cede the 20 percent of the Donetsk region it still controls before it stops fighting.
“克里姆林宫计划夺取顿涅茨克和卢甘斯克地区的企图在可预见的未来不会得以实现，”别列茨基在一段视频讲话中表示。顿涅茨克和卢甘斯克地区被俄罗斯几乎完全占领，构成了乌克兰富含矿产的顿巴斯地区。
"The Kremlin's plan to seize the Donetsk and Luhansk regions will not be implemented in the foreseeable future," Biletskyi said in a video address. Donetsk and Luhansk, which Russia almost entirely occupies, make up Ukraine's mineral-rich Donbas.
备受关注的此次行动，代号“维瓦尔第”，正值乌克兰军队在第五年交火中试图从俄军手中夺回主动权之际，部分方式是通过拥抱技术和新战术。
The highly publicised operation, dubbed "Vivaldi", comes as Ukrainian forces aim to seize the ground initiative from Russia in the fifth year of fighting, in part by embracing technology and new tactics.
俄军经常报告称其占领了前线村庄。路透社无法立即核实战场情况的报告。
Russia regularly reports seizing frontline villages. Reuters could not immediately verify the battlefield reports.
乌克兰周三指责埃隆·马斯克的SpaceX限制了星链服务，导致其无人机瘫痪，即便就在俄罗斯导弹击毁电力设施之际，乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基称之为“对唐纳德·特朗普的夸张不尊重”。
Ukraine accused Elon Musk's Space X on Wednesday of limiting Starlink services, crippling its drones even as Russian missiles knocked out power in what President Volodymr Zelenskiy called "ostentatious disrespect" to Donald Trump.