俄罗斯官员在关于结束战争的闭门谈判中采取强硬立场，将欧洲安全问题推向谈判核心。
The hard-line position of Russian officials in closed-door negotiations about ending the war thrusts European security into the heart of the talks.
在俄罗斯于2022年初入侵乌克兰前两个月，它提出了一系列深远要求，包括要求北约将部队撤回1997年的部署位置，即西方联盟向俄罗斯边境扩张之前的状态。
Two months before Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, it issued a series of far-reaching demands, including that NATO pull its troops back to positions they held in 1997, before the Western alliance expanded toward Russia’s borders.
如今，在本周与特朗普总统特使就如何结束乌克兰战争进行的闭门谈判中，俄罗斯人重振了这一立场——在某些情况下甚至逐字逐句重复——试图在历经五年战争和数十万人死亡后取得更大胜利。
Now, in closed-door negotiations with President Trump’s envoys this week about how to end the war in Ukraine, the Russians have revived that stance — in some cases word for word — in an effort to attain a larger victory after five years and hundreds of thousands of deaths.
根据《纽约时报》从一名参与谈判人士处获得的一份文件副本，莫斯科的不妥协立场体现在俄罗斯官员本周传阅的一份文件中。
Moscow’s unyielding position was laid out in a paper that Russian officials circulated this week, according to a copy obtained by The New York Times from a person involved in the talks.
另一名知情人士证实了该文件的真实性。文件显示，在特朗普政府进行了20多个月的外交斡旋以结束冲突后，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京在核心目标上几乎没有退让。
The paper, whose authenticity was confirmed by another person with knowledge of the negotiations, shows that President Vladimir V. Putin has scarcely budged on his core objectives after more than 20 months of diplomacy by the Trump administration to end the conflict.
俄罗斯要求北约从波兰和波罗的海国家的东翼撤军，将欧洲安全问题置于乌克兰谈判的核心。文件还详述了普京公开言论背后的目标。这位俄罗斯领导人一再坚持，在他停止战斗前，必须解决他所谓的战争“根本原因”——俄罗斯对北约和乌克兰的广泛不满。
Russia’s demands that NATO pull back forces from its eastern flank in Poland and the Baltics thrust the question of European security into the heart of the negotiations over Ukraine. And they detail the objective behind Mr. Putin’s public statements. The Russian leader has continually insisted that what he calls the “root causes” of the war — Russia’s wide-ranging grievances with both NATO and Ukraine — be addressed before he stops fighting.
该文件还凸显了特朗普特使贾里德·库什纳和史蒂夫·威特科夫向普京提供的经济诱因，迄今未能从莫斯科换取让步。批评人士认为，美国冒着助长普京长期试图重建从欧洲延伸至中亚的苏联势力范围的风险。
The document also underscores how the economic inducements that Mr. Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, have offered Mr. Putin have yet to secure concessions from Moscow. To critics, the United States risks enabling Mr. Putin’s long-running attempt to reassert a Soviet-era sphere of influence from Europe to Central Asia.