空袭警报在凌晨3点11分响起，但几乎没有起到任何预警作用。三分钟后，导弹就开始坠落，连续发出了近10声震耳欲聋的爆炸声，将尼基塔·霍尔斯基（Nikita Horskyi）和阿洛娜·霍尔斯卡（Alona Horska）从睡梦中惊醒。
The air-raid alarm went off at 3:11 a.m. but offered little warning. Within three minutes, the missiles started to hit, almost 10 teeth-rattling booms that jolted Nikita Horskyi and Alona Horska awake. The couple launched into what has become a familiar ritual in recent weeks.
这对夫妇立刻开始了他们最近几周已经习以为常的“应急行动”：霍尔斯基先生迅速抱起了他们的两个孩子，而霍尔斯卡女士则在走廊里临时搭建了简易的床铺。他们居住的16层公寓楼内没有任何避难设施；他们知道，与仅依靠外墙相比，两堵墙能提供更多的保护。
Mr. Horskyi scooped up their two children. Ms. Horska assembled makeshift beds in the hallway. Their 16-story apartment building has no shelter, and they knew that two walls offered more protection than the exterior wall alone.
10岁的马克（Mark）在每次爆炸后都会这样祈祷：“上帝啊，救救我们。”他紧紧抱着自己的毛绒玩具，蜷缩在走廊里，旁边铺着一张看起来像绿色怪物的薄垫子和一个枕头。5岁的阿丽娜（Arina）则躺在一张铺着粉色兔子图案床单的简易床上。
Mark, their 10-year-old, thought, “God, help us,” as he said he does after every explosion. He hugged his stuffed goose and curled up in the hallway on a thin mat and a pillow resembling a smiling green monster. Arina, 5, lay down on a blowup bed with sheets of pastel bunnies and hedgehogs.
这个家庭渐渐习惯了这种“噩梦般的现实”，直到下一波导弹来袭——其中有两枚导弹落在了他们附近，其中一枚甚至导致两名保安丧生。马克被窗外玻璃破碎的声音惊醒，他又睡了一会儿，随后便和妹妹一起起床准备去上学。很快，那些由喷气发动机驱动的无人机就会再次降临……“这当然会影响我的心理状态和神经健康，”马克说，“我必须想办法让自己平静下来。”尼基塔·霍尔斯基和他的妻子阿洛娜·霍尔斯卡，以及他们的两个孩子马克和阿丽娜，正在基辅的公寓里为新的一天做准备。
The family fell back asleep, accustomed to this particular nightmare, until the next missiles hit, two of them nearby, including one that killed a pair of security guards. Mark woke to the sound of glass shattering outside. He fell asleep for a bit longer, then he and his sister got up for school. Soon the jet-powered drones would arrive. “Of course, it affects my mental state and my nerves,” Mark said. “I have to come up with things to calm myself down.”Nikita Horskyi and his wife, Alona Horska, and their children, Mark and Arina, getting ready for their day in their apartment in Kyiv.
上周在基辅的一个市场摊位前，购物已经变成了一件毫无意义、徒劳无功的任务——因为许多大型商店在警报响起后都会立即关闭。
A market stall in Kyiv last week. Shopping has turned into a Sisyphean task, because many larger stores make people leave when the sirens start.
这就是最近一个周三的基辅故事，也是这座乌克兰首都生活状况日益恶化的写照。如今，俄罗斯的导弹袭击变得更加频繁，不仅发生在夜间，而且全天都在发生。
This is the story of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on a recent Wednesday, and how life here has deteriorated. The Russian missiles come more often now, not just at night but all day.
八月份，俄罗斯开始使用新型喷气发动机驱动的无人机，这些无人机的飞行速度高达每小时375英里，数量也在急剧增加。它们几乎总是在毫无预警的情况下发动攻击。乌克兰至今仍未找到有效拦截这些无人机的办法。
In August, new Russian drones powered by jet engines and capable of going up to 375 miles an hour, began streaking into cities in exponentially larger numbers. They hit almost without warning. Ukraine has not figured out how to consistently intercept them.
特朗普总统最近解除了对俄罗斯柴油销售的制裁，施压乌克兰停止对俄罗斯炼油厂的袭击，并建议乌克兰换一位总统。他对俄罗斯对基辅的行动未发表任何评论。莫斯科正在乌克兰杀害的平民人数超过全面入侵开始以来的任何时期。
President Trump has recently lifted sanctions on Russian diesel sales, pressured Ukraine to stop attacking Russian oil refineries and suggested that Ukraine get a new president. He has said nothing about what Russia is doing to Kyiv. Moscow is killing more civilians in Ukraine than at any time since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
这个星期三将是一个普通的日子。既不会太安静，也不会太吵闹。防空警报将响起七次，使基辅处于警戒状态的总时长约为10个半小时。城市部分地区将停电和停水。六人将死亡。
This Wednesday would be an average day. Not too quiet, not too loud. The air-raid alarm would go on and off seven times, keeping Kyiv under alert a total of about 10½ hours. Parts of the city would lose power and running water. Six people would die.
在战争的第五年，俄罗斯正试图让首都变得无法居住，驱散民众，并迫使乌克兰投降。基辅，一座形状如心的城市，已成为远离乌克兰东部前线的新型战场，而俄罗斯部队在那里一直未能赢得战争。基辅尚未表现出将放弃的迹象。但它将承受苦难。
In the fifth year of war, Russia is trying to make the capital unlivable, drive people away and force Ukraine to capitulate. Kyiv, a city shaped like a heart, has become a new kind of battlefield far from the front in eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces have been unable to win the war. Kyiv has given no indication that it will give up. But it will suffer.
这里的人们曾经每隔七到十天就要应对一次大规模导弹袭击，偶尔也有无人机突破基辅的防御。生活有时很痛苦，就像去年冬天的停电期间。但生活也常常充满欢乐，有《银翼杀手》主题的狂欢派对，还有爱抱怨的网红们带着摄制队在时尚街道上游行。如今的基辅已经安静下来。生活变得灰暗。
People here once coped with major missile attacks every seven to 10 days and the occasional drone that made it past Kyiv’s defenses. Life was sometimes miserable, like during power cuts last winter. But it was often joyful, with “Blade Runner”-themed raves and pouty influencers parading down hipster streets with camera crews. That Kyiv has been muted. Life has become grayer.
俄罗斯威胁今冬要切断基辅的电力、供暖和供水。本月，莫斯科开始试图通过袭击第聂伯河上的桥梁来把城市一分为二——这条河将东部（租金较低的地区）与西部（大多数人工作的地区）分隔开来。
Russia has threatened to knock out power, heat and water in Kyiv this winter. This month Moscow started trying to cut the city in two by hitting bridges over the Dnipro River, which divides the east, where rents are lower, from the west, where most people work.
无论是小决定还是大决定，人们都觉得充满了可能改变人生的“如果”。基辅的人们首先要决定在哪里睡觉。地铁站里的帐篷。地下停车场里的汽车。走廊里的床垫。床上的赌注。
Every decision, small or big, feels fraught with what-ifs that could be life-changing. People in Kyiv first decide where to sleep. A tent in a subway station. A car in an underground parking garage. A mattress in the hallway. A gamble in bed.
购物变成了西西弗斯式的任务，因为许多大型商店在警报声响起时会让人们离开。学校经常被打断，因为孩子们必须在每次警报时前往学校的防空洞。
Shopping has turned into a Sisyphean task, because many larger stores make people leave when the sirens start. School is constantly interrupted, because children must go to the schools’ shelters for every alert.
马克经常发现自己待在学校的地下室，该地下室被出租给了一家名为“武士格斗俱乐部”的健身房。
Mark often finds himself in his school’s basement, which is rented out to a gym called the Shogun Fight Club.
那里有沙袋、摔跤垫和混凝土墙，但没有课桌或椅子。孩子们无法在那里学习。有些孩子通过手机应用追踪无人机的飞行路径。
There are punching bags, wrestling mats and concrete walls, but no desks or chairs. The children cannot study there. Some follow the paths of drones on apps.
其他孩子则在玩游戏，比如有几个男孩假装成乌克兰征兵官员，然后在摔跤垫上扑倒其他男孩，把他们“送往”想象中的前线。或者另一个游戏：男孩们向健身房墙上用铅笔画出的燃烧建筑投掷纸飞机和纸制无人机，画面中还有人们挥手求救。
Others play games, like one where a few boys pretend to be Ukrainian recruitment officers and then tackle other boys on the wrestling mats to send them to imaginary front lines. Or the one where the boys throw paper airplanes and paper drones at a burning building drawn on the gym wall in pencil, complete with people waving their hands for help.
决策 66 岁的阿纳托利·卡武宁科在星期三黎明前就醒来，准备上早班。尽管警报仍在持续，他还是决定去他附近的工作岗位——当一名保安。他的妻子安东尼娜为他准备了午餐：蒜泥茄子和塞满蘑菇的馒头。卡武宁科先生走出了家门。
The Decision Anatoliy Kavunenko, 66, woke before dawn on Wednesday for his early shift. Despite the ongoing alert, he decided to go to his nearby job as a security guard. His wife, Antonina, packed him lunch: eggplant with garlic and buns stuffed with mushrooms. Mr. Kavunenko walked out the door.
大约在上午 5 点 12 分，第二轮弹道导弹袭击发生。卡武宁科夫人听到一声震耳欲聋的爆炸声，试图给丈夫打电话。他的手机一直在响。
About 5:12 a.m., the second round of ballistic missiles hit. Mrs. Kavunenko heard a thundering explosion and tried to call her husband. His phone rang and rang.
每一枚导弹、每架无人机，都在改变着一个社区的生活——就像俄式轮盘赌一样，已经在基辅损毁了数千栋建筑。当警报在上午 7 点 05 分解除时，人们走出屋外，迎面扑来的是刺鼻、充满烟雾的空气，这种空气已经笼罩基辅近两个月的每一个早晨。
Every missile, every drone, changes a neighborhood’s life, a Russian roulette that has damaged thousands of buildings in Kyiv. When the alert ended at 7:05 a.m., people emerged into the acrid, smoky air that has blanketed Kyiv almost every morning for the past two months.
导弹和无人机袭击产生的刺鼻、充满烟雾的空气，已经笼罩基辅近两个月的每一个早晨。
Acrid, smoky air from missile and drone attacks has blanketed Kyiv almost every morning for the past two months.
在过夜的俄罗斯袭击现场，警方和消防人员发现了两名保安的焦尸。
Police and firefighters at the scene of overnight Russian strikes where the burned bodies of two security guards were found.
在河东岸，一枚导弹引燃了车库，火势蔓延的面积相当于一个网球场的大小。
On the east side of the river, a missile set fire to garages over an area the size of a tennis court.
卡武年科夫人，64岁，跑了过去，仍然穿着深绿色天鹅绒睡裤和一件浅黑色外套。消防员告诉她，她面前地面上两具焦黑的尸体之一就是她丈夫阿纳托利的遗体。
Mrs. Kavunenko, 64, ran there, still wearing her dark-green velvet pajama pants and a light black coat. Firefighters told her that one of the two burned corpses on the ground in front of her was the body of Anatoliy, her husband.
“我的大脑无法接受这块黑煤块就是我的托利克，”她说，用的是他的昵称。她把手放在胸口，深深吸了一口气。
“My brain can’t accept that this black piece of coal is my Tolik,” she said, using his nickname. She held her hand over her heart and took a deep breath.
“请帮帮我。我怎么才能确认这是不是他？”警报 综合格斗俱乐部收容所在空袭警报期间无法容纳所有学生，因此他们采用上午和下午分段上学的方式。马克的课程从上午8:30持续到中午。有些日子，他根本不会离开地下室。
“Please help me. How can I find out if this is him?”The Alarm The Shogun Fight Club shelter doesn’t have room for all students during air-raid alerts, so they attend school in morning and afternoon shifts. Mark’s classes last from 8:30 a.m. until noon. Some days, he never leaves the basement.
星期三情况有所好转。他的五年级班级顺利完成了数学课。在英语课上，孩子们学习了如何发音房屋中的不同房间。上午9点48分，当学生们练习单词“卧室”时，警报响起。一些学生欢呼起来。大家都收拾起了书包。
Things were better on Wednesday. His fifth-grade class made it through math. In English, the children learned how to pronounce different rooms in a house. At 9:48 a.m., as students practiced the word “bedroom,” an alert went off. Some students cheered. Everyone packed their bags.
上午剩余时间保持安静。霍尔斯基先生，36岁，冒险骑着摩托车过桥前往他位于卢基亚尼夫卡社区西区的办公室，该社区经常遭到轰炸。
The rest of the morning was quiet. Mr. Horskyi, 36, risked driving his motorcycle over the bridge to his office in the frequently battered neighborhood of Lukianivka on the west side.
尼基塔·霍尔斯基骑摩托车穿过横贯基辅的河流，使用的是俄罗斯轰炸的主要目标之一的桥梁。
Nikita Horskyi commutes by motorcycle across the river that bisects Kyiv, using one of the bridges that are prime targets for Russia’s bombardment.
毛里西奥·利马 摄 / 《纽约时报》 奥克萨娜·斯特尔马丘克在她公寓附近的游乐场喂她的婴儿索菲亚。
Mauricio Lima for The New York Times Oksana Stelmashchuk, feeding her baby, Sophia, in a playground near her apartment.
霍尔斯基先生的办公室俯瞰着上周被喷气式无人机击中的两栋建筑。一栋建筑前曾出现过搬家卡车。霍尔斯基先生本人经营着摩托车服装设计业务，他也曾考虑过搬家。
Mr. Horskyi’s office looks out at two buildings hit by jet-powered drones the week before. Moving trucks had shown up at one building. Mr. Horskyi, who has a business designing motorcycle clothing, had thought about moving, too.
“有时候我觉得基辅的苦难甚至比那些离俄罗斯更近的城市还要严重，”他说。“现在，这就像一个棘手的、棘手的问题，一个关于离开还是留下的棘手选择。因为实际上我爱基辅。”大约下午1点，空气中的烟雾已经散去，住在几条街外的40岁奥克萨娜·斯特尔马什丘克决定带着她的婴儿索菲亚去散步。她抬头望向一栋公寓楼，那里被炸毁的窗户上挂着碎裂的窗框，于是她后退了一步。
“Sometimes I think that Kyiv is suffering even more than the cities located closer to Russia,” he said. “Right now, it’s like a tricky, tricky question, a tricky choice to leave or to stay. Because actually I love Kyiv.”About 1 p.m., the air had cleared of smoke, and Oksana Stelmashchuk, 40, who lives a few blocks away, decided to go for a walk with her baby, Sophia. She looked up at an apartment building where pieces of window frames hung from blown-out windows, and stepped back.
索菲亚就是在这现实中出生的，出生于8月26日，当时无人机击中了产医院旁边的一栋楼。现在，她的婴儿在哭泣，于是斯特尔马什丘克坐在附近游乐场的一张长椅上喂她。
Sophia was born into this reality, on Aug. 26, as drones hit a building next to the maternity hospital. Now, her baby was crying, so Ms. Stemaschchuk sat down on a bench in a nearby playground to feed her.
“我们地区的所有游乐场现在都空了，”她说。下午1点24分，防空警报再次响起。斯特尔马什丘克拿起手机查看飞来了什么：只有基辅郊外的一架无人机。“它还很远，我亲爱的女孩，”她对婴儿说。
“All the playgrounds in our area are empty now,” she said. At 1:24 p.m., the air-raid alert sounded again. Ms. Stelmashchuk grabbed her phone to check what was flying: only one drone on the outskirts of Kyiv. “It is still far away, my girl,” she told her baby.
喷气式无人机 在一家被击中至少九次的附近麦当劳，菜单已经变得寥寥无几。最近几个月的所有袭击意味着它已经被削减到仅剩基本项目——汉堡和薯条。没有可口可乐。
The Jet Drones At a nearby McDonald’s which has been hit at least nine times, the menu was a shadow of its former self. All the attacks in recent months meant it had been stripped to the essentials — burgers and fries. There was no Coca-Cola.
下午3点29分，防空警报响起。餐厅里的所有人都匆忙前往附近的地铁站，顾客们急忙吃着薯条。十七分钟后，警报解除。员工们有序地走回楼上。附近，人们正在等电车。防空警报再次响起。
At 3:29 p.m., the air-raid alert went off. Everyone inside the restaurant left for the nearby subway station, the customers hurriedly eating fries. Seventeen minutes later, the alarm ended. The workers filed back up the stairs. Nearby, people waited for a tram. The air-raid alarm sounded again.
“我们对这一切真的已经疲惫不堪了，”52岁的赫奥尔吉·瓦西里耶夫说，他因建筑工作需要在基辅各地奔波。
“We’re just so tired of it all,” said Heorhii Vasyliev, 52, who travels all over Kyiv for his construction job.
一架无人机在远处击中，发出低沉的轰鸣声。“哦，”他说着，呼出一口气。“在这一切之中，你还能称什么为正常？这算正常吗？战争算正常吗？”警报时断时续地持续着。一架无人机击中了河西侧的一栋苏联时期的五层公寓楼，楼内大多住着退休人员，火灾随即爆发。一块焦黑的阳台碎片挂在附近的一棵树上。消防员匆忙赶到灭火。
A drone hit in the distance, a low boom. “Oh,” he said, exhaling. “What can you call normal about any of this? Is this normal? Is war normal?”On and off, off and on, the alerts continued. A drone on the west side of the river set fire to a Soviet-era, five-story apartment building, where mostly retired people lived. A charred piece of a balcony hung from a nearby tree. Firefighters rushed to put out the flames.
对基辅居民而言，被毁的建筑已经成为城市景观的一部分，就像这些在一座被烧毁的购物中心前的麦当劳餐厅里的顾客。一名精疲力尽的消防员。
Gutted buildings are a regular part of the landscape for Kyiv residents, like these patrons of a McDonald’s restaurant in front of a burned-out shopping center. An exhausted firefighter.
消防员用水管冲洗阳台，此前一架无人机击中了一栋苏联时期的五层公寓楼并引发火灾。
Firefighters hose down a balcony after a drone set fire to a Soviet-era, five-story apartment building.
住在隔壁的68岁因纳·萨多娃在爆炸震动她家时正在厨房里。她的住宅没有防空掩体。
Inna Sadova, 68, who lives next door, was in her kitchen when the explosion shook her home. Her building has no shelter.
“隔壁的楼有地下室，但那样的地下室更像是集体墓地，而不是防空掩体，”她说。
“The neighboring building has a basement, but a basement like that is more of a mass grave than a shelter,” she said.
喷气式动力的无人机不断袭来，几乎全世界其他地方鲜有的轻微暴行名单仍在延续。河西侧有两人死于无人机拦截时的碎片击中了一辆停靠的汽车。随后，河东侧又有两人死于一架无人机击中位于霍尔斯基公寓以北约九英里处的一栋12层公寓楼。
The jet-powered drones kept coming, and the list of minor atrocities unknown almost anywhere else in the world continued. Two people died on the west side of the river when debris from a drone interception hit a parked car. Two more people would die on the east side after a drone hit a 12-floor apartment building about nine miles north of the Horskyi apartment.
城市大部分地区停电。基辅部分地区的供水也停止了。西侧的有轨电车、无轨电车和地铁部分线路也停运了。东侧，一个整片高层公寓区的电力一个接一个地中断。
The power went out in much of the city. The water, too, stopped working in parts of Kyiv. So did trams, trolley buses and parts of the subway on the west side. On the east, an entire district of high-rise apartment blocks blinked out, one after the other.
霍尔斯基一家尽力应对。他们断电三小时，这是几个月来第一次，但电力后来恢复了，他们也有水。傍晚时分，他们遛起了法国斗牛犬马西，路过一栋早在10天前就被无人机击中的楼栋，马克的历史老师就住在那里。马克感到惊讶，竟然还有人住在被击中的楼层之上。
The Horskyi family made the best of it. They lost electricity for three hours, the first time in months, but it came back on, and they had water. In the early evening, they took their French bulldog, Marcy, for a walk, near a building that had been hit 10 days earlier by a drone, where Mark’s history teacher lives. Mark was fascinated that people still lived on the floor above the strike.
孩子们晚餐吃了汉堡。他们刷了牙，穿上睡衣，爬进卧室里的双人床。
The children ate burgers for dinner. They brushed their teeth, put on their pajamas and climbed into their twin beds in their bedroom.
“我昨晚睡得不是很好，”马克说。“我可能很快就会睡着。我可能直接就昏过去了。”不过，孩子们说，总体来说，今天还是美好的一天。不久他们就关了灯。
“I didn’t sleep very well last night,” Mark said. “I’ll probably fall asleep really quickly. I’ll just pass out.”Still, it was a good day, all in all, the children said. Soon they turned off the lights.
马克·霍尔斯基，10岁，在家中床上，经历了一整天反复响起的空袭警报和轰炸。耶热日·诺维茨基 为《纽约时报》报道奥尔哈·康诺瓦洛娃康斯坦坦·梅胡特 贡献报道。
Mark Horskyi, 10, in bed at home after a day of repeated air raid sirens and bombardment. Jędrzej Nowicki for The New York Times Olha Konovalova Constant Méheut contributed reporting.