美国国务卿马尔科·鲁比奥在上周对记者的评论中，似乎将俄罗斯对乌克兰的入侵简化为一场关于顿巴斯地区的领土争端。“人们一直在谈论这是一场在乌克兰的战争。那场战争关乎顿巴斯。它关乎该国的一个地区，”鲁比奥在上周访问印度期间对记者说。“从根本上说，（这场战争）关乎该国一个部分中11%的领土，俄罗斯想要这块领土却无法通过军事手段夺取，而乌克兰不愿放弃。”
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to reduce Russia's invasion of Ukraine to a territorial dispute over the Donbas Region in comments to reporters last week."(P)eople keep talking about it's a war in Ukraine. That war is about Donbas. It's about one region of the country," Rubio told reporters during a visit to India last week." At its core, (the war) is about 11% of one part of that country that Russia wants and cannot take militarily and that Ukraine is unwilling to give up."
这番言论是在美方宣布三国将于11月举行三方和平会谈之后发表的。在背离美国外交政策的重大举措中，唐纳德·特朗普总统豁免了对俄罗斯的制裁，并宣布美国将购买俄罗斯柴油。
This comes after the US announced that trilateral peace talks between the three countries would take place in November. In a major departure from US foreign policy, President Donald Trump waived sanctions for Russia and announced that the US would be purchasing Russian diesel.
美国了解乌克兰正在发生的事情吗？但鲁比奥将俄乌战争定性为领土争端，这可能揭示了特朗普政府在11月会谈前的真实想法。这也表明，该政府对这场战争以及普京对乌克兰的野心存在深刻的误解。
Does the US understand what is going on in Ukraine? But by framing the Ukraine-Russia War as a territorial dispute, Rubio's comments could reveal where the Trump administration's head is at before the talks in November. It also signals that the administration has a profound misunderstanding of the war and Putin's ambitions for Ukraine.
普京周四表示，莫斯科声称拥有主权的乌克兰东部领土是“历史上的俄罗斯土地”，这提高了解决冲突谈判的赌注。“首先，我对这件事的态度是，这不是他们的领土。这是历史上俄罗斯的领土，”他说。
Putin said on Thursday that the territories in eastern Ukraine claimed by Moscow were "historically Russian land," raising stakes in talks to settle the conflict." Firstly, my attitude on this matter is that this is not their territory. It's the territory of historical Russia," he said.
普京还表示，任何未来涉及俄罗斯、美国和乌克兰的三方会谈都应聚焦于为俄罗斯和乌克兰提供安全保障，并补充说更广泛的欧洲安全问题也应予以讨论。“这些会谈的目标将是在达成最终形式的和平协议后，确保乌克兰和俄罗斯的安全，而不是由于某种短期的临时停火所导致的结果。”
Putin also said any future trilateral talks involving Russia, the United States and Ukraine should focus on security guarantees for both Russia and Ukraine, adding that broader European security issues should also be discussed." The goal of these talks will be to ensure the security of Ukraine and Russia after reaching peace agreements, in their final form, not as a result of a temporary ceasefire for some short period of time.
“我们已准备好恢复这些接触以实现这一目标，”普京说。俄罗斯总统表示，威特科夫还强调，讨论必须延伸至“整个欧洲安全架构。我对此也表示赞同。好吧，让我们看看未来几天事态如何发展。”乌克兰总统泽连斯基周二在挪威会见了威特科夫，他表示乌克兰已准备好进行谈判，谈判可能于下月初举行。他表示，乌克兰支持“任何关于停火、结束战争、能源停火以及人道主义倡议的提议”。
We are ready to resume these contacts to achieve this goal," Putin said. The Russian president said Witkoff also stressed that discussions had to extend to "the architecture of European security as a whole. And I agree with that too. Well, let's see how things develop in the coming days." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who met Witkoff in Norway on Tuesday, said Ukraine was ready for talks likely to take place by early next month. Ukraine, he said, supported "any proposals for a ceasefire, an end to the war, an energy ceasefire as well as humanitarian initiatives."