俄罗斯乌克兰边境局势持续紧张。当地时间2月21日，俄罗斯总统普京宣布承认顿涅茨克人民共和国和卢甘斯克人民共和国独立，并签署总统令与相关协议。这条消息随即引发广泛关注。此前，西方国家有关“俄罗斯将‘入侵’乌克兰”的说法甚嚣尘上。俄外长18日曾表示，西方关于俄罗斯“入侵”乌克兰的言论是虚假宣传、凭空捏造和主观臆造。
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has lashed out at Western officials who have been peddling the purported threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Apparently, they do it for the sheer pleasure of accusing Moscow, he told RT in an exclusive interview on Friday.
俄罗斯外长谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫（Sergey Lavrov）猛烈抨击西方官员，指责他们一直在兜售所谓的“俄罗斯入侵乌克兰威胁论”。他在周五的独家采访中告诉RT新闻，对方这样做纯粹是为了指责莫斯科而指责莫斯科。
（英文摘自2022.02.03 RT News网站）
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Moscow accused its opponents of cherry-picking parts of its suggestions on how to deflate tensions, while ignoring Moscow’s essential concerns for its safety due to NATO expansion and other threats posed by Western powers.
莫斯科指责其反对者对其提出的缓和紧张局势的建议断章取义，却忽视由于北约扩张和西方列强构成的其他威胁，以及莫斯科对自身安全的根本担忧。
（英文摘自2022.02.03 RT News网站）
The Russian foreign ministry said that the US’ response to Russia’s demands for bilateral security agreements were insufficient, addressing only some of Russia’s grievances… and that the US is cherry-picking solutions in response to security proposals.
俄罗斯外交部表示，美国对俄罗斯提出的双边安全协议要求的回应不够充分，只解决了俄罗斯的部分不满……而美国正在根据安全建议挑选对自己有利的解决方案。
（英文摘自2022.02.18 bne IntelliNews网站）
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Moscow is considering filming a fake attack against Russian territory or Russian-speaking people by Ukrainian forces as a pretext to invade its neighbor, the Biden administration said Thursday, warning that the resulting propaganda footage could include “graphic scenes of a staged false explosion with corpses.”
拜登政府周四表示，莫斯科正在考虑拍摄乌克兰军队对俄罗斯领土或对讲俄语的人的假袭击，并以此作为入侵邻国的借口。拜登政府警告称，视频中的画面可能包括“用尸体进行假爆炸的暴力画面”。
（英文摘自2022.02.03 The Washington Post网站）
Russian intelligence may be creating a pretext to invade Ukraine by producing an elaborate staged video—using crisis actors, fake Ukrainian military hardware and actual corpses—to depict an attack on Russian civilians, Biden Administration officials announced.
拜登政府官员宣布，俄罗斯情报部门可能正在制造入侵乌克兰的借口：他们通过制作一段精妙的视频，使用演员、假乌克兰军事装备和真实的尸体来刻画乌克兰军队对俄罗斯平民的袭击。
（英文摘自2022.02.03 Forbes网站）
President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia needed to work on increasing its economic sovereignty and that the West would always find a pretext to impose sanctions on Moscow.
弗拉基米尔·普京总统周五表示，俄罗斯需要努力增强其经济主权，西方总是会找到借口对俄罗斯实施制裁。
（英文摘自2022.02.18 Reuters网站）
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The disinformation is often designed to muddy the waters for Russia’s domestic audience rather than make a convincing case worldwide.
这些虚假信息往往是为了蒙蔽俄罗斯国内观众，而不是向世界提出令人信服的理由。
（英文摘自2022.02.03 The Washington Post网站）
Other Russian media muddied the water even further -- mentioning locations both in the south, in the direction of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol -- and in the north, near the Russian village of Mityakinskaya. However, a CNN analysis of the two videos confirms that they were filmed at a common location, just a few meters from each other.
其他俄罗斯媒体把水搅得更浑了——提到了南部乌克兰城市马里乌波尔方向的地点，以及北部俄罗斯村庄米佳金斯卡亚附近的地点。然而，美国有线电视新闻网对这两段视频的分析证实，它们是在一个共同的地点拍摄的，彼此相距仅几米。
（英文摘自2022.02.22 CNN网站）
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Minsk I’s provisions included prisoner exchanges, deliveries of humanitarian aid and the withdrawal of heavy weapons, five months into a conflict that had by then killed more than 2,600 people.
《明斯克协议》第一版的条款主要包括交换囚犯、提供人道主义援助和撤出重型武器。这场冲突持续了五个月，当时已造成2600多人死亡。
Representatives of Russia, Ukraine, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the leaders of two regions signed the 13-point Minsk II in February 2015.
2015年2月，俄罗斯、乌克兰、欧洲安全与合作组织（欧安组织）的代表以及两个地区的领导人签署了《明斯克协议》第二版，一项包含13条内容的协议。
（英文摘自2022.02.21 Reuters网站）
Yang said if the 2015 Minsk Agreements had been fully implemented, Russia won't be concerned that Ukraine would join NATO. But the US and other forces overtly agree but covertly oppose the Minsk Agreements to push Ukraine to join NATO or try to deploy military forces in the country. This has caused Russia's tough reactions.
中国社会科学院俄罗斯东欧中亚研究所副研究员杨进表示，如果2015年的《明斯克协议》得到全面实施，俄罗斯将不会担心乌克兰有可能加入北约。但美国和其他势力却在公开同意、暗中反对协议，以推动乌克兰加入北约或试图在该国部署军队。这便引起了俄罗斯的强烈反应。
（英文摘自2022.02.22 Global Times网站）
