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As Russia pushes deeper into eastern Ukraine, some flee on medical evacuation train

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President Biden has announced another $1 billion in weaponry for Ukraine, including anti-ship missile launchers, longer range artillery² and rounds for mobile rocket launching platforms.

A MART?NEZ, HOST:

The leaders of France, Germany and Italy are in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, today to show their support for Ukraine's effort to beat back the Russian invasion, which is now in its fourth month. It's not clear if they're bringing promises of more weapons as well. President Biden, however, says another billion dollars' worth of weapons from the U.S. will soon be on their way. Ukraine is desperate for more firepower, as they're struggling to hold off Russian advances in the eastern Donbas region. In particular, Russian forces seem poised³ to take the strategically important city of Severodonetsk and are making gains elsewhere as well. NPR's Nathan Rott is in Zaporizhzhia. Nathan, these weapons that the U.S. is sending, is this exactly what the Ukraine's have been asking for?

NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE⁴: It is and it's not, right? It's far short from the amount of weaponry that Ukraine says it needs. But they are longer range weapons they're going to get with this, which is what Ukraine has been asking for. You know, we've spent some time in eastern Ukraine, that Donbas region, where most of the fighting is now centered. And it is just pancake flat. You know, the biggest bumps on the horizon are slag⁵ heaps from coal mines. And in that really wide-open area, having long-range artillery gives you an upper hand. Russia has those weapons and has been making the most of them. Yesterday, we talked to a doctor named Tatiana Yermolaieva, who had been treating Ukrainian soldiers in Dnipro just up the road from here. And here's an example she gave us.

TATIANA YERMOLAIEVA: (Non-English language spoken).

ROTT: "A soldier I treated the other day described being shelled in a trench⁶ for 9 hours," she said. "He couldn't even get up to go to the bathroom."

MART?NEZ: Wow. You know, Mariupol, Kharkiv - we've seen some pretty horrible pictures from those places, places that Russia has been striking from a distance. Is similar destruction happening in eastern Ukraine?

ROTT: Yeah. So the other night, Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, described the city of Severodonetsk - that's the last major town still partially⁷ under Ukrainian control in the Luhansk region - as pretty much a dead city. And that's something we heard from residents of eastern Ukraine who were fleeing the carnage on a medical evacuation train that passed through Dnipro yesterday. Victor Uyuslav, who was on a pair of crutches⁸ with a bandaged foot, came from outside the town of Bakhmut.

VICTOR UYUSLAV: (Through interpreter) I'm from - (inaudible) - village. But it was destroyed.

ROTT: Oh, the village was - it's gone?

UYUSLAV: (Through interpreter) Yeah. It doesn't exist anymore. I don't have anywhere to live.

ROTT: He said he was heading to western Ukraine to try to move in with some family there.

MART?NEZ: You mentioned Victor was on a pair of crutches. Was he injured in the war?

ROTT: You know, he wasn't, actually. He said he'd been in a car wreck⁹. Those still happen in Ukraine. He broke his leg, but he couldn't get medical help. So he's been trying to tough it out, living in a basement for the last two weeks. And then he said he went to feed some pets at his house and it was hit by a shell. The blast wave knocked him down. And his house burnt down. That story of wanting to stay, trying to stay, but eventually having to leave is something we've been hearing a lot of. This train that we visited was organized by Doctors Without Borders, MSF. They've been moving people from eastern Ukraine to western on medical evacuation trains pretty much since the first weeks of the war started. And I talked to the coordinator¹⁰ of this trip, a man named Steven Davidson. Here he is.

STEVEN DAVIDSON: The patients that we're seeing now are mostly civilians¹¹, mostly with some kind of war wound or injury, a lot of very old babushkas who have just had everything just come to their door.

ROTT: Davidson says many of the people they're transporting don't even really care who owns the territory that they live in, whether it's Ukraine, Russia. They just want to stay in their homes. But with this war now being this long-range artillery battle, where both sides are just blasting each other from a distance, the collateral¹² damage that's occurring is huge.

MART?NEZ: That's NPR's Nathan Rott in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Nathan, thanks a lot.

ROTT: Yeah. Thanks, A. I appreciate it.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 artillery   

n.(军)火炮，大炮；炮兵(部队)

参考例句：

• This is a heavy artillery piece.这是一门重炮。
• The artillery has more firepower than the infantry.炮兵火力比步兵大。

3 poised   

a.摆好姿势不动的

参考例句：

• The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop. 老鹰在半空中盘旋，准备俯冲。
• Tina was tense, her hand poised over the telephone. 蒂娜心情紧张，手悬在电话机上。

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 slag   

n.熔渣，铁屑，矿渣；v.使变成熔渣，变熔渣

参考例句：

• Millions of tons of slag now go into building roads each year.每年有数百万吨炉渣用于铺路。
• The slag powder had been widely used as the additive in the cement and concrete.矿渣微粉作为水泥混凝土的掺和料已得到广泛应用。

6 trench   

n./v.(挖)沟，(挖)战壕

参考例句：

• The soldiers recaptured their trench.兵士夺回了战壕。
• The troops received orders to trench the outpost.部队接到命令在前哨周围筑壕加强防卫。

7 partially   

adv.部分地，从某些方面讲

参考例句：

• The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
• The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静，宵禁部分解除。

8 crutches   

n.拐杖, 支柱 v.支撑

参考例句：

• After the accident I spent six months on crutches . 事故后我用了六个月的腋杖。
• When he broke his leg he had to walk on crutches. 他腿摔断了以后，不得不靠拐杖走路。

9 wreck   

n.失事，遇难；沉船；vt.(船等)失事，遇难

参考例句：

• Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
• No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。

10 coordinator   

n.协调人

参考例句：

• The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下，负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
• How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室？

11 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

12 collateral   

adj.平行的；旁系的；n.担保品

参考例句：

• Many people use personal assets as collateral for small business loans.很多人把个人财产用作小额商业贷款的抵押品。
• Most people here cannot borrow from banks because they lack collateral.由于拿不出东西作为抵押，这里大部分人无法从银行贷款。