受俄罗斯无人机骚扰,乌克兰火车仍在运行作者:尤里·科瓦连科乌克兰第聂伯罗至敖德萨的火车上,10月28日——乌克兰美容院老板安东尼娜·维特尔正逐渐习惯因俄罗斯无人机袭击威胁而打乱出行计划,她乘坐火车穿梭全国以维持生意。
Harassed by Russian drones, Ukraine's trains keep on rolling By Yurii Kovalenko ON A TRAIN BETWEEN DNIPRO AND ODESA, Ukraine, Oct 28 - Ukrainian beauty salon owner Antonina Viter is getting used to having her travel plans disrupted by the threat of Russian drone attacks, as she criss-crosses the country by rail to keep her business going.
“每三次出行,我们就会疏散一次、两次甚至三次,”她在从东南部城市第聂伯罗开往黑海沿岸敖德萨的火车上解释道。
"Every third trip, we end up evacuating once, twice or even three times," she explained on board a train from the southeastern city of Dnipro to Odesa on the Black Sea.
“能怎么办呢?不然你怎么到客户那里去?”基辅方面为防空警报期间的火车乘客制定了新规定,果然,她说完没多久,这位36岁的女士就裹着毯子站在外面漆黑的十月夜空下,等待“警报解除”。
"What can you do? How else do you get to your client?" Kyiv has set new rules for rail passengers during air-raid alerts and, sure enough, soon after she spoke, the 36-year-old was standing outside under a pitch-black October sky, wrapped in a blanket, waiting for the "all-clear".
在一个长期依赖其庞大铁路网络的国家,数小时的延误和防空警报响起时反复疏散,是俄罗斯不断升级的导弹和无人机袭击破坏平民日常生活的又一方式。
In a country long reliant on its vast rail network, hours-long delays and repeat evacuations when air-raid sirens sound are another way in which Russia's escalating missile and drone attacks are wrecking everyday life for civilians.
俄罗斯新型喷气动力无人机难以击落,已袭击了从购物中心和加油站到发电厂及其他关键基础设施的各种目标。铁路也不例外。乌克兰铁路今年遭袭1700次国有运营商乌克兰铁路公司表示,俄罗斯今年袭击了1700多处铁路设施,包括车站、机车和客运车厢。俄罗斯称其目标是基辅军方使用的物体。
New Russian jet-powered drones that are hard to shoot down have attacked everything from shopping centres and filling stations to power plants and other critical infrastructure. And the railways are no exception. UKRAINIAN RAILWAYS ATTACKED 1,700 TIMES THIS YEAR The state operator, Ukrzaliznytsia, says Russia has attacked more than 1,700 rail facilities this year, including stations, locomotives and passenger wagons. Russia says its targets are objects used by Kyiv's military.
从第聂伯罗到西南约400公里(250英里)外的敖德萨的线路之旅,展示了乌克兰人如何应对这些中断。去程经历了八次疏散,每次约30分钟,回程又多了一次。
A trip on the line from Dnipro to Odesa, some 400 km (250 miles) to the southwest, showed how Ukrainians are coping with those disruptions. The outward journey featured eight evacuations of roughly 30 minutes each, the return journey - one more.
直接袭击,如8月13日第聂伯罗-敖德萨线路上无人机袭击导致两名火车司机死亡,是始终存在的威胁。
Direct attacks, like the drone strike that killed two train drivers on the Dnipro-Odesa line on August 13, are an ever-present threat.
空袭警报可能会意外地使任何路线的行程时间翻倍,而随着战事逼近,东部和南部的一些车站已无限期关闭。
But air-raid alerts can unexpectedly double the travel time on any route, and some stations in the east and south have been shut indefinitely as fighting creeps closer.
对于41岁的IT从业者拉丽莎·康斯坦季诺娃来说,被击中的前景是她不愿去想的——她当时正带着十几岁的儿子从第聂伯罗前往敖德萨,开始一次前往欧洲的假期旅行。
The prospect of being hit is one that 41-year-old IT worker Larysa Konstantynova - who was travelling from Dnipro to Odesa with her teenage son at the start of a holiday trip to Europe - prefers not to think about.
像维特尔一样,她每月至少往返六次以管理位于基辅和第聂伯罗的两家美容院,她表示自己正在适应。
Like Viter, who travels at least six times a month to manage two salons in Kyiv and Dnipro, she says she is adapting.
“这就是你大脑的运作方式:你只能努力保持积极,并设法在现状下生存下去。”其他袭击还包括9月在波兰边境附近对一列开往华沙的列车实施的打击。
"It's how your mind works: you just try to be positive and survive with the way things are." Other attacks have included a strike on a Warsaw-bound train near the Polish border in September.
对一些人来说,夜间铁路旅程——曾经是毫无干扰、可以放松身心的机会——如今却在焦虑的等待中度过。
For some, overnight rail journeys - once opportunities to unwind with few distractions - are now spent in anxious anticipation.
空袭警报响起时,乘客可能被惊醒,被迫匆忙跑向田野或上下路基,有时还要带着孩子或宠物。冬季气温往往降至冰点以下。
During air raid alerts, passengers can be jolted awake and forced to scramble into fields or up and down embankments, sometimes with children or pets in tow. In the winter, temperatures are often below freezing.
铁路旅程笼罩在随机死亡的风险中 维特尔和一位同事挤在列车外,听到头顶传来无人机特有的“嗖”声后,在手机应用上追踪附近的一架无人机。这是两小时内的第三次疏散。
RAILWAY JOURNEYS HAUNTED BY RISK OF RANDOM DEATH Huddled outside her train with a colleague, Viter tracked a nearby drone on a cell-phone app after hearing its distinctive 'whoosh' overhead. It was the third evacuation in two hours.
“在田野里站一个小时,总比冒险再也见不到下一个小时要强,”她说,因为她知道第二天还要在敖德萨教授一个美容研讨会。
"Better to stand in a field for an hour than to risk never getting to see the next hour," she said, knowing she had to teach a beauty workshop in Odesa the next day.
事实上,尽管第聂伯罗至敖德萨线路上5到12小时的延误并不罕见,但这趟列车仅晚点1小时20分钟就到达了。
In fact, although delays of 5 to 12 hours are not unusual on the Dnipro-Odesa route, this train arrived just an hour and 20 minutes late.
尽管如此,随着俄罗斯扩大无人机和弹道导弹袭击行动,利用基辅防空导弹短缺的弱点,随机死亡的风险已大幅上升。
Nevertheless, the risk of random death has soared as Russia has broadened its drone and ballistic-missile campaign, exploiting Kyiv's shortage of air defence missiles.
据乌克兰基础设施部长称,仅今年就有50多名铁路工人在执勤时死亡,敬业的员工不得不调整工作流程,以维持一个似乎深深系于他们心头的网络运转。
More than 50 railway workers have died on duty this year alone, according to Ukraine's infrastructure minister, and dedicated staff have had to adapt their routines to maintain a network that appears to be close to their hearts.
每趟旅程伊始,列车员便穿梭车厢拉上窗帘,遮挡可能引来俄罗斯无人机注意的光线。
At the beginning of each journey, conductors sweep through the carriages closing curtains to block out light that might alert a Russian drone.
“它们能看见我们,所以我们得躲一躲,”49岁的列车乘务员奥尔哈·博纽克说道,语气仿佛母亲在安抚孩子。
"They can see us, so we have to hide a bit," said train attendant Olha Boniuk, 49, with the air of a mother soothing her child.
每次疏散结束后,47岁的列车长米科拉·扎哈尔琴科都会坐在狭小的工作间里,认真记录中断情况。
After each evacuation, chief conductor Mykola Zakharchenko, 47, sits in his cramped booth diligently recording the interruption.
即便如此,回忆起与乘客的交谈他仍会露出微笑,依然喜欢看黎明的曙光透过车窗洒进来:“干铁路的,俗话说,是浪漫。”机车司机米科拉·科瓦连科则用另一种方式表达了同样的意思。“要是我辞职了,”他说,“谁来开火车?”
All the same, he smiles recalling conversations with passengers, and still enjoys watching dawn break through the carriage window: "Train work, as they say, is romance." Locomotive driver Mykola Kovalenko put it another way. "If I quit," he said, "who will drive the trains?"