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今天，我们聊一件刚刚发生的大事。

这个星期四，

也就是六月十八号，

乌克兰，

对俄罗斯的首都莫斯科，

发动了一次特别大的无人机攻击。

有多大呢？

我先给你一个数字。

俄罗斯自己说，

这一次，

他们拦下来的无人机，

差不多有两百架。

这是这场仗打了四年多以来，

莫斯科挨打，

最狠的一次。

那么，

这么多无人机，

最主要的目标是什么？

是莫斯科城里的，

一座大型炼油厂。

这座炼油厂，

归俄罗斯的天然气石油公司管，

就在莫斯科东南边，

一个叫卡波特尼亚的地方。

而且，

这已经是这一个星期里，

它第二次被打了。

那天早上，

无人机一架接一架地，

扑向炼油厂。

工厂里，

一下子烧起了至少五处大火。

又黑又浓的烟，

盖住了大半个莫斯科的天。

有现场的视频显示，

一声巨响之后，

厂房的房顶，

直接被炸飞了起来。

天上，

还飘下来混着黑灰的"黑雨"。

这里你可能会问：

仗打来打去，

为什么乌克兰，

非要盯着炼油厂打？

其实道理不复杂。

现代打仗，

打的就是油。

坦克要烧油，

战机要烧油，

运东西的卡车，

也全靠油。

炼油厂，

就是把石油，

变成这些油的地方。

所以乌克兰的算盘是：

我打不到你全部的军队，

那我就打你的油。

你没了油，

仗就打不下去了。

这是一种，

专门冲着对方"钱包"和"油箱"去的打法。

当然，

这次倒霉的，

不只是炼油厂。

据俄罗斯方面说，

一共有十七个人受了伤，

其中还有两个孩子。

有的居民楼，

也被掉下来的碎片砸坏了。

整座城市，

那一天都乱了套。

莫斯科周围好几个机场，

全部暂停了起降。

光是一家航空公司，

就取消了一百七十多个航班，

还有一百多个航班，

被延误。

不少旅客，

被困在机场，

回不了家。

还有一些地方，

开始闹油荒，

有钱也不一定加得到油。

做这件事的乌克兰，

态度也很强硬。

就在攻击之前，

乌克兰总统，

刚刚和美国、法国的领导人，

通了一个电话，

还在这周的七国集团峰会上，

拿到了更多支持。

他撂下一句狠话：

如果乌克兰要被烧，

那你的莫斯科，

也一样会烧起来。

说到这儿，

我想跟你多聊一句。

这场仗，

打了四年多。

对我们很多人来说，

它一直是新闻里，

一个有点遥远的词。

但是当近两百架无人机，

扑向一个国家的首都，

当黑烟盖住整座城市，

当普通人被困在机场、

加不到油，

战争，

就不再是地图上的箭头，

而是结结实实地，

砸进了千万人的日常生活。

最后，

我想留给你两个问题。

第一，

你觉得，

这种专打炼油厂、专打能源的打法，

真的能让一场仗，

更快结束吗？

第二，

当战火，

一次又一次地，

烧到大城市的中心，

最后真正承受这一切的，

又是谁？

这两个问题，

没有标准答案。

但是值得我们，

慢慢去想。

English transcript reference

Today we'll talk about a big event that just happened.

This Thursday,

that is, June 18th,

Ukraine,

against Russia's capital Moscow,

launched an especially large drone attack.

How large?

Let me give you a number first.

Russia itself said

that this time,

the drones they shot down

numbered nearly two hundred.

This was, in the four-plus years of this war,

the hardest Moscow has been hit —

the most ferocious single strike.

So,

all these drones —

what was their main target?

It was, inside the city of Moscow,

a large oil refinery.

This refinery

is run by Russia's gas-and-oil company,

on the southeastern edge of Moscow,

in a place called Kapotnya.

What's more,

this was already, within this one week,

the second time it had been hit.

That morning,

drone after drone

swooped toward the refinery.

Inside the plant,

at least five big fires broke out at once.

Thick black smoke

covered most of Moscow's sky.

Footage from the scene showed

that after a huge blast,

the roof of the plant building

was blown straight up into the air.

From the sky,

a 'black rain' mixed with soot even fell.

Here you might ask:

amid all this back-and-forth fighting,

why does Ukraine

insist on targeting the refinery?

The logic, in fact, isn't complicated.

Modern war,

in the end, is a war over oil.

Tanks burn oil,

warplanes burn oil,

the trucks hauling supplies

all rely on oil too.

An oil refinery

is the place that turns crude oil

into all this fuel.

So Ukraine's calculation is:

I can't take out your whole army,

so I'll hit your oil.

Once you have no oil,

the war can't go on.

It's a way of fighting

aimed straight at the enemy's 'wallet' and 'fuel tank'.

Of course,

what got hit this time

was not only the refinery.

According to the Russian side,

a total of seventeen people were injured,

two of them children.

Some apartment buildings

were damaged by falling debris.

And the whole city

was thrown into disorder that day.

Several airports around Moscow

all suspended takeoffs and landings.

One airline alone

cancelled more than a hundred and seventy flights,

and over a hundred more flights

were delayed.

Many travelers

were stranded at the airports,

unable to get home.

And in some places,

a fuel crunch began;

even with money, you couldn't be sure of filling up.

Ukraine, which did this,

also took a hard line.

Just before the attack,

Ukraine's president

had just spoken with the leaders of the US and France

by phone,

and at this week's G7 summit

had won more support.

He delivered a fierce line:

if Ukraine is to burn,

then your Moscow

will burn just the same.

Speaking of this,

I want to say one more thing to you.

This war

has gone on for four-plus years.

For many of us,

it has always been, in the news,

a somewhat distant word.

But when nearly two hundred drones

swoop toward a country's capital,

when black smoke covers an entire city,

when ordinary people are stuck at airports,

unable to fill their tanks,

war

is no longer an arrow on a map,

but something that, solidly and concretely,

slams into the daily lives of millions.

Finally,

I want to leave you with two questions.

First,

do you think

this way of fighting — striking refineries, striking energy —

can really make a war

end any faster?

Second,

when the fires of war,

again and again,

burn into the heart of a big city,

who, in the end,

truly bears all of it?

These two questions

have no standard answer.

But they're worth our

thinking about slowly.

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