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今天，我们聊一件，

正在重新定义这场战争的事。

这个星期四，六月十八号的凌晨，

俄罗斯的首都莫斯科，

迎来了一个，

被黑烟笼罩的清晨。

乌克兰，

对这座城市，

发动了开战四年多以来，

规模最大的一次无人机攻击。

我们先用一个数字，

来感受它的分量。

据俄罗斯方面通报，

仅仅是在飞向莫斯科的途中，

就有将近两百架无人机，

被拦截下来。

将近两百架。

这意味着，

真正穿过层层防空网，

抵达目标的，

还远不止这个数字。

而这一切的核心目标，

是莫斯科城内的，

一座大型炼油厂。

它隶属于俄罗斯天然气工业石油公司，

坐落在莫斯科东南郊，

一个叫卡波特尼亚的区。

值得注意的是，

这已经是短短一周之内，

这座炼油厂，

第二次遭到攻击。

那个清晨，

无人机一架接一架，

俯冲向炼油厂。

厂区内，

瞬间燃起了至少五处大火，

浓重的黑烟，

几乎盖住了半座莫斯科的天空。

现场流传的视频里，

一声剧烈的爆炸之后，

巨大的厂房屋顶，

被气浪整个掀飞到空中。

天空中，

甚至飘落下混着黑色烟灰的，

"黑雨"。

看到这里，

你或许会问一个问题：

战火连绵，

乌克兰为什么，

偏偏死死盯住炼油厂不放？

答案，

其实藏在战争最朴素的逻辑里。

现代战争，

打到最后，

打的就是能源。

坦克要靠燃油驱动，

战机要靠燃油升空，

绵延几百公里的补给卡车，

同样离不开油。

而炼油厂，

正是把原油，

变成这一切燃料的地方。

所以，

乌克兰的战略意图非常清晰：

既然无法在正面战场上，

击溃对方庞大的军队，

那就转而去打它的"血液"——

能源。

切断燃油，

就是从根子上，

削弱对方继续作战的能力。

这是一种，

直接瞄准对手"油箱"与"钱袋"的，

消耗战打法。

当然，

为这场攻击付出代价的，

绝不只是一座工厂。

据俄方通报，

此次袭击，

共造成十七人受伤，

其中还包括两名儿童。

一些居民楼，

被坠落的无人机残骸砸中、损毁。

而整座城市的秩序，

也在这一天彻底被打乱。

莫斯科周边的多座机场，

紧急启动了管制，

暂停一切起降。

仅一家航空公司，

就取消了一百七十多个航班，

另有一百多个航班，

被迫延误。

无数旅客，

滞留在航站楼里，

有家难回。

与此同时，

部分地区开始出现油荒，

排队加油，

甚至有钱也未必加得到。

发动这场攻击的乌克兰，

姿态异常强硬。

就在袭击前数小时，

乌克兰总统，

刚刚同美国和法国领导人，

进行了一次重要的协调通话，

并在本周的七国集团峰会上，

争取到了更多的支持承诺。

随后，

他撂下了一句分量极重的话：

如果乌克兰会被烧成灰烬，

那么你的莫斯科，

同样会燃烧。

这句话的潜台词，

冷酷而直白：

以牙还牙，

以火还火。

说到这里，

我想和你聊聊，

这件事更深的一层。

这场战争，

已经持续了四年多。

对身处远方的我们而言，

它太多时候，

只是新闻里反复出现的，

一个有些麻木的背景音。

但是当将近两百架无人机，

扑向一国之都，

当滚滚黑烟，

笼罩在克里姆林宫的上空，

当普通市民，

被困机场、加不到油、

抬头就是一片焦黑的天，

战争，

便不再是地图上，

那一个个冰冷的箭头。

它变成了，

结结实实砸进千万人日常的，

爆炸、火光，

和那一场，

落在头顶的黑雨。

节目的最后，

我想把两个问题，

留给你。

第一，

这种专打能源、

专打后方的消耗战，

究竟是会加速一场战争的结束，

还是只会让仇恨，

烧得更久、更深？

第二，

当战火，

一次又一次地，

冲进大城市的心脏，

无论它落在基辅，

还是落在莫斯科，

最终，

真正承受这一切的，

又是哪些，

普普通通的人？

这两个问题，

没有标准答案。

但是它们，

值得你慢慢地想。

English transcript reference

Today we'll talk about something

that is redefining this war.

In the early hours of this Thursday, June 18th,

Russia's capital, Moscow,

woke to a morning

shrouded in black smoke.

Ukraine,

against this city,

launched the largest drone attack

since the war began over four years ago.

Let's first use a number

to feel its weight.

According to the Russian side,

merely on the approach to Moscow,

nearly two hundred drones

were intercepted.

Nearly two hundred.

Which means

the number that actually pierced layer upon layer of air defense

and reached their targets

was far more than that.

And the core target of it all

was, inside the city of Moscow,

a large oil refinery.

It belongs to Russia's state gas-and-oil corporation,

set in Moscow's southeastern outskirts,

in a district called Kapotnya.

It's worth noting

that this was already, within a single week,

the second time this refinery

had come under attack.

That dawn,

drone after drone

dove toward the refinery.

Within the plant,

at least five large fires erupted in an instant,

and dense black smoke

all but blanketed half of Moscow's sky.

In footage circulating from the scene,

after one violent explosion,

the enormous roof of the plant building

was hurled whole into the air by the blast wave.

From the sky,

there even drifted down, mixed with black ash,

a 'black rain'.

Seeing this,

you might ask a question:

with the fires of war dragging on,

why does Ukraine

fixate so doggedly on the refinery?

The answer

lies in fact in war's plainest logic.

Modern war,

fought to its very end,

is a war over energy.

Tanks run on fuel,

warplanes take off on fuel,

the supply trucks stretching hundreds of kilometers

likewise cannot do without oil.

And an oil refinery

is precisely where crude oil

is turned into all this fuel.

So,

Ukraine's strategic aim is very clear:

since it cannot, on the open battlefield,

crush the enemy's vast army,

it turns instead to strike its 'lifeblood' —

energy.

To sever the fuel

is, at the root,

to weaken the enemy's ability to keep fighting.

It is a kind

aimed straight at the foe's 'fuel tank' and 'purse' —

a war of attrition.

Of course,

the price paid for this attack

was by no means only one factory.

According to the Russian side,

this strike

left a total of seventeen people injured,

including two children.

Some residential buildings

were struck and damaged by falling drone debris.

And the order of the whole city

was utterly upended that day.

The many airports around Moscow

urgently imposed controls,

suspending all takeoffs and landings.

One airline alone

cancelled more than a hundred and seventy flights,

with over a hundred more

forced into delay.

Countless travelers

were stranded in the terminals,

unable to return home.

At the same time,

a fuel shortage began in some areas;

queuing to fill up,

even with money you might not manage it.

Ukraine, which launched this attack,

struck an unusually hard posture.

Just hours before the strike,

Ukraine's president

had just held, with the leaders of the US and France,

an important coordination call,

and at this week's G7 summit

had secured further pledges of support.

Afterward,

he delivered a line of immense weight:

if Ukraine is to be burned to ashes,

then your Moscow,

all the same, will burn.

The subtext of that line

is cold and blunt:

an eye for an eye,

fire for fire.

Speaking of this,

I want to talk with you about

a deeper layer of this matter.

This war

has dragged on for over four years.

For those of us far away,

all too often

it is only, recurring in the news,

a somewhat numbing background hum.

But when nearly two hundred drones

swoop toward a nation's capital,

when rolling black smoke

shrouds the skies above the Kremlin,

when ordinary citizens

are stuck at airports, unable to fuel up,

and look up to a sky charred black,

war

is no longer, on a map,

those cold little arrows.

It has become

the explosions and flames that slam, solid and real, into the daily lives of millions,

the blasts, the firelight,

and that one

black rain falling on their heads.

At the end of the show,

I want to leave you

with two questions.

First,

this attrition warfare — striking at energy,

striking at the rear —

will it truly speed a war's end,

or will it only make the hatred

burn longer, and deeper?

Second,

when the fires of war,

again and again,

charge into the heart of a great city,

whether they fall on Kyiv,

or fall on Moscow,

in the end,

who truly bears all of it —

which

ordinary, everyday people?

These two questions

have no standard answer.

But they

are worth thinking about slowly.

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