
四年前,俄罗斯外交部一名高级官员在协助乌克兰对抗入侵的俄罗斯军队的商业卫星网络上画了一个靶心。
Four years ago, a senior official in Russia's foreign ministry painted a bullseye on commercial satellite networks that assist Ukraine in its fight against invading Russian military forces.
周三,也就是一艘俄罗斯军用航天器移至距离其中一颗商业卫星打击范围内的几天之后,这位俄罗斯外交官向世界保证没有理由担心。
On Wednesday, several days after a Russian military spacecraft moved within striking distance of one of those commercial satellites, the same Russian diplomat assured the world there's no reason to worry.
康斯坦丁·沃龙佐夫是俄罗斯驻联合国代表团副团长,他这两番表态存在尖锐的不一致。沃龙佐夫周三在联合国大会第一委员会的发言,紧随一名美国官员提请关注“宇宙-2612”号(Kosmos 2612)最近的机动——这艘俄罗斯军用飞行器曾接近一颗位于地球上空约340英里(550公里)的美国注册商业卫星。
There's a sharp incongruity in those statements from Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy head of Russia's delegation to the United Nations. Vorontsov's comments Wednesday in the UN General Assembly's First Committee came moments after a US official called attention to recent maneuvers by Kosmos 2612, a Russian military craft that approached a US-registered commercial satellite some 340 miles (550 kilometers) above Earth.