俄高官警告美國武裝烏克蘭計劃

A key security adviser to Russian president Vladimir Putin has accused the US of seeking to drag Russia directly into war inUkraine through a possible plan to arm Kiev, underlining the seriousness with which Moscow would greet such a move.

俄羅斯總統弗拉基米爾•普京(Vladimir Putin)的一名主要安全顧問指責美國可能通過武裝烏克蘭的計劃，試圖將俄羅斯直接拖入烏克蘭的戰爭，此言凸顯了莫斯科方面將強勢迴應美國軍援烏克蘭的舉動。

“The Americans are trying to draw the Russian Federation into an interstate military conflict, to achieve regime change through the events in Ukraine and to ultimately dismember our country,” said Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Kremlin’s security council.

“美國人試圖把俄羅斯聯邦拖入一場國家間的軍事衝突，試圖通過烏克蘭發生的事件促成政權變更，最終瓦解我們的國家，”俄羅斯聯邦安全會議(Security Council of the Russian Federation, 簡稱SCRF)祕書長尼古拉•帕特魯舍夫(Nikolai Patrushev)表示。

The warning represented Moscow’s first high-level comments on the intensifying debate in Washington about supplying lethal weapons to a Ukrainian militaryat war with Russia-backed separatists.

對於是否要向正在和得到俄方支持的分裂分子作戰的烏克蘭軍方提供致命性武器，華盛頓展開的辯論日趨激烈，帕特魯舍夫的警告代表莫斯科高層首次對這一事態做出評論。

The start of such arms supplies would be “one more confirmation that the US is a direct participant in the conflict,” Mr Patrushev added, warning that if Washington took this step, the conflict would “escalate only further”.

此類軍援將是“美國直接參與這場衝突的又一明證，”帕特魯舍夫補充道。他警告稱，如果美國採取這一舉措，這場衝突“只會進一步升級”。

Mr Patrushev is one of Mr Putin’s closest associates — a former head of the FSB intelligence agency that succeeded the KGB, and one of the security officials with whose help the president runs the country.

帕特魯舍夫是普京最親密的副手之一，也是幫助普京統治國家的安全官員之一。他曾擔任俄羅斯聯邦安全局(FSB)局長。FSB的前身是克格勃(KGB)。

His comments add to an accelerating drumbeat of bellicose warnings that have convinced many in Moscow the Russian leadership is preparing the country for a wider war. But others interpret the ratcheting up of rhetoric as a bluff to strengthen Moscow’s hand in ongoing peace talks.

他的評論給俄羅斯方面越來越頻繁的帶有挑釁意味的警告又添一筆，這些警告讓莫斯科許多人相信，俄羅斯領導層正在讓舉國上下爲一場更大範圍的戰爭做好準備。但另一些人的解讀是，加大措辭的尖銳程度不過是虛張聲勢，目的是在正在進行的和談中爲莫斯科爭取更有利的條件。

Dmitri Trenin, head of the Moscow Carnegie Center, an arm of the US think-tank, is in the former camp. A move by the US to supply the Ukrainian army with lethal weapons would be viewed as “a real game changer” by the Russian government, he said.

美國智庫卡內基中心(Carnegie Center)的莫斯科分支負責人德米特里•特列寧(Dmitri Trenin)同意前一種觀點。他表示，在俄羅斯政府看來，如果美國向烏克蘭軍隊提供致命性武器，那將“真正改變遊戲規則”。