俄罗斯释放了退休美国教师斯蒂芬·哈伯德（Stephen Hubbard），现年74岁，这是两国关系升温的最新迹象，当时华盛顿正施压基辅同意达成协议以结束莫斯科的战争。美国特使史蒂夫·威特科夫（Steve Witkoff）在周三早些时候于圣彼得堡与俄罗斯领导人举行和平谈判时，赞扬了总统弗拉基米尔·普京（Vladimir Putin）释放哈伯德。“你总说我的总统、特朗普总统是一位人道主义者。先生，您也是一位人道主义者，”威特科夫说。
Russia has released retired American teacher Stephen Hubbard, 74, the latest sign of warmer ties between the two countries as Washington pressures Kyiv to agree to a deal to end Moscow’s war. U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff lauded President Vladimir Putin for the release of Hubbard as he held peace talks with the Russian leader early Wednesday in St. Petersburg. “You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian. You are a humanitarian also, sir,” Witkoff said.
美国已向克里姆林宫示好数周，释放哈伯德——这位密歇根州出生、2022年在乌克兰被拘留的美国人——将给唐纳德·特朗普总统带来一项可供宣扬的胜利，此前他在冲突中倾向远离基辅，引发了国内外的强烈反弹。特朗普欢迎这一消息。“斯蒂芬正在回家的路上，很快就会与家人团聚。出于对特朗普总统的尊重，美国无需给予任何回报——这对俄罗斯来说是前所未有的情况，”他在Truth Social上的帖子中写道。
The U.S. has courted the Kremlin for weeks, and the release of Hubbard — a Michigan native detained in Ukraine in 2022 — will give President Donald Trump a victory to tout after backlash at home and abroad for his tilt away from Kyiv in the conflict. Trump hailed the news. “Stephen is on his way back home and will soon be with his family. The United States, out of respect for President Trump, was not required to give anything in return — an unprecedented situation for Russia,” he said in a post on Truth Social.
特朗普表示，他在上周的一次电话通话中曾直接请求普京释放哈伯德，后者因被指控在乌克兰作为雇佣兵作战而被关押，他否认这些指控。他是国务院认定在俄罗斯被错误拘留的最后一名美国人。
Trump said that he had directly asked Putin in a phone call last week to release Hubbard, who was being held on charges he denies of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine. He was the last American designated as wrongfully detained in Russia by the State Department.
克里姆林宫表示，此举是一项善意姿态。哈伯德的家人感谢“特朗普总统及其团队开启了与俄罗斯的对话，从而迎来了这个喜悦的日子。我们全家可以证明，在通往和平的艰难道路上，能找到美好的祝福。”
The Kremlin said the move was a goodwill gesture. Hubbard’s family thanked “President Trump and his team for opening the dialog with Russia which led to this joyful day. Our family can attest that there are wonderful blessings to be found along the hard road to peace.”
普京的外交政策助手尤里·乌沙科夫（Yuri Ushakov）后来表示，哈伯德已在圣彼得堡普尔科沃机场移交给威特科夫。俄罗斯国家通讯社Ria发布的视频显示，哈伯德身穿绿色夹克、面带微笑，与威特科夫会面。“非常感谢您的一切努力，”这位获释的美国人在与威特科夫握手时说道。
Putin’s foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov later said Hubbard was handed over to Witkoff at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport. In a video from Russian state news agency Ria, Hubbard can be seen wearing a green jacket and smiling as he met Witkoff. “Thank you very much for all your efforts,” the freed American tells Witkoff as they shake hands.
普京向哈伯德传达了“祝福”，威特科夫告诉他，并补充说“从今天起，这就是新生活了”。哈伯德的律师马丁·德卢卡周三在接受NBC新闻电话采访时说，他与哈伯德通了话，当时哈伯德正“准备登上飞往美国的飞机”，他的当事人对获释感到无比高兴。“他喜极而泣，”德卢卡说。“他最兴奋的头等大事是见到他的孩子和家人，他们将在今晚他抵达美国时等候他。他处于脆弱状态，所以谈话没有持续很久，但他没事，这是最重要的。”
Putin sent Hubbard “blessings,” Witkoff tells him, adding “from today, it’s a new life.”Martin De Luca, Hubbard’s lawyer, told NBC News in a phone interview Wednesday that he had spoken with Hubbard as he was “getting ready to take off” on a plane bound for the U.S. and that his client was overjoyed to be released. “He was overwhelmed with joy,” De Luca said. “The No. 1 thing he was excited about was seeing his children and family, who will be waiting for him when he arrives in the U.S. tonight. He was in a fragile state, so it wasn’t a long conversation, but he’s OK, which is what’s important.”
美国的和平推动普京与威特科夫的会面，特朗普女婿贾里德·库什纳预计将以视频方式参加，此前美国谈判代表在挪威首都奥斯洛与乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基和欧洲领导人举行了会谈。一名美国官员告诉NBC新闻，乌克兰在这些会谈中提出了新的想法和建议，并补充说，随着特朗普政府加强和平推动，取得了“有意义的进展”。
U.S. peace push The meeting between Putin and Witkoff, which Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner was expected to join virtually, came after the American negotiators met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders in the Norwegian capital, Oslo. Ukraine brought forward new ideas and proposals at those talks, a U.S. official told NBC News, adding that “meaningful progress” was made as the Trump administration intensifies its peace push.
乌沙科夫周三表示，俄罗斯准备从11月中旬恢复与美国和乌克兰的三方会谈，涉及“冲突结束后为俄罗斯和乌克兰建立安全体系”。泽连斯基周三告诉福克斯新闻，他将支持包括他本人、特朗普和普京在内的会谈，以及直接的乌俄会谈。与此同时，乌沙科夫还表示，一项单独的俄罗斯、中国和美国领导人会面的提议。
Ushakov said Wednesday that Russia is ready to resume trilateral talks with the U.S. and Ukraine from mid-November, concerning “the establishment of a security system for Russia and Ukraine after the end of the conflict.”Zelenskyy told Fox News Wednesday that he would support talks involving himself, Trump and Putin, as well as direct Ukraine-Russia talks. Meanwhile, Ushakov also said a separate proposed meeting of leaders from Russia, China and the U.S. during next month’s APEC summit in Shenzhen is “not rejected by any of the capitals.”
在下个月于深圳举行的亚太经合组织（APEC）峰会期间举行三方会晤，“没有任何首都反对”。他说，俄罗斯提出了“关于可能举行三方会谈内容的几项实际考量”，但“如果条件成熟，他们，我们的中国朋友，肯定会将这次会晤列入活动日程。”
He said Russia had raised “several practical considerations regarding the content of possible trilateral talks” but “if circumstances are favorable, they, our Chinese friends, will certainly include this meeting in the program of events.”
数月来外交几乎毫无进展，而美国重启的努力招致了广泛批评，因为特朗普宣布了一系列扶持俄罗斯的举措，而乌克兰指责美国撤回了关键支持。“我们希望泽连斯基达成协议，”特朗普周二在椭圆形办公室对记者说，加大了施压力度，引发了外界担忧美国不再致力于支持基辅抵御俄罗斯入侵。“我们给了乌克兰很多。我们什么也没得到，只有悲伤、死亡、巨额金钱损失，”特朗普说。
Diplomacy has made little headway for months, and the renewed American effort has drawn widespread criticism as Trump announced a series of moves to bolster Russia while Ukraine accused the U.S. of withdrawing crucial support. “We want Zelenskyy to make a deal,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, intensifying a pressure campaign that has fueled concern the U.S. is no longer committed to Kyiv’s defense against the Russian invasion. “We’ve given a lot to Ukraine. We’ve gotten absolutely nothing back except grief, death, tremendous monetary loss,” Trump said.
特朗普周三对记者表示，结束战争的协议可能已近在咫尺。“我们正在就乌克兰问题与俄罗斯谈判，”他说。“我们也许第一次在很长一段时间内接近达成协议。”
Trump told reporters on Wednesday that a deal to end the war might be close. “We’re negotiating with Russia right now on Ukraine,” he said. “We are maybe close to a deal for the first time in a long time.”
维特科夫周三告诉普京，为结束战斗已奠定了“基础”，并称他带来了概述可能达成协议方案的文件。
Witkoff told Putin on Wednesday that “groundwork” had been laid for ending the fighting, and that he had brought documents outlining approaches to a possible deal.
泽连斯基表示，潜在的三方领导人会晤是周二在奥斯陆会谈后提出的“重要想法之一”，该会谈还包括挪威和芬兰领导人。
Zelenskyy said that a potential trilateral leaders’ meeting was “one of the important ideas” raised in Oslo after Tuesday’s talks, which also included the leaders of Norway and Finland.
普京迄今坚持，只有在协议敲定后才能与泽连斯基会面，且地点必须在莫斯科，这对乌克兰来说是不可接受的条件。克里姆林宫也几乎没有从其强硬立场退让的迹象，其要求包括夺取乌克兰整个东部顿巴斯地区。
Putin has so far insisted any meeting with Zelenskyy could only happen once a deal is finalized and take place in Moscow, a nonstarter for Ukraine. The Kremlin has also shown little sign of shifting from its hard-line demands, which include seizing Ukraine’s entire eastern Donbas region.
本月早些时候，特朗普与俄罗斯签署了一项柴油协议，并豁免了对莫斯科的新制裁，招致了两党批评。
Trump signed a diesel deal with Russia earlier this month and waived new sanctions on Moscow, drawing bipartisan criticism.
他周三声称，如果他没有豁免制裁，释放哈伯德的谈判“将会完全彻底地停止”。与此同时，基辅方面表示，对于至少三次重大的俄罗斯袭击，它没有收到任何提前预警，而且对埃隆·马斯克的“星盾”卫星服务的限制继续阻碍其防空和战场行动。在周二与威特科夫会谈后，泽连斯基告诉记者，最近关于情报共享的问题已经解决。
He claimed Wednesday that negotiations to free Hubbard “would have come to a complete and total halt” if he hadn’t waived the sanctions. Kyiv, meanwhile, said it received no advance warning about at least three major Russian attacks and that restrictions on Elon Musk’s Starshield satellite service continue to hamper its aerial defenses and battlefield operations. After the talks with Witkoff on Tuesday, Zelenskyy told reporters the recent issues with intelligence sharing had been resolved.
国务卿马尔科·鲁比奥称奥斯陆的会谈“积极”，但表示“没有什么意外的结果”。鲁比奥再次否认白宫导致了乌克兰使用该互联网服务的任何放缓，称这是马斯克和SpaceX的问题。马斯克本人上周表示，任何决定都取决于特朗普。与此同时，致命的俄罗斯袭击继续袭击乌克兰，随着莫斯科在冬季来临前加大对能源基础设施的打击力度，周三全境至少有九名平民丧生。俄罗斯边境布良斯克地区当局周三表示，一名人员在乌克兰袭击中丧生。
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the talks in Oslo “positive,” but said “nothing unexpected” came out of them. Rubio once again denied that the White House was behind any slowdown to Ukraine’s use of the internet service, saying this was an issue for Musk and SpaceX. Musk himself said last week any decision was down to Trump. Deadly Russian attacks continued to hit Ukraine, meanwhile, with at least nine civilians killed across the country Wednesday as Moscow ramps up its strikes on energy infrastructure ahead of winter. Authorities in Russia’s border Bryansk region said Wednesday that one person was killed in a Ukrainian strike.