俄羅斯軍機在敘利亞被擊落 5人遇難
MOSCOW — A Russian military transport helicopter was shot down Monday in the Syrian province of Idlib, killing the three crew members and two officers on board in the deadliest episode for the Russian military since it intervened in the country, Russian officials said.
莫斯科——俄羅斯官員稱，週一，一架俄羅斯軍用運輸直升機在敘利亞的伊德利卜省被擊落，機上三名機組成員和兩名官員遇難，這是俄羅斯軍方介入敘利亞戰事以來遭到的最重大傷亡。
The Mi-8 helicopter was hit by ground fire as it returned to the Hemeimeem air base from a mission to the embattled city of Aleppo, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
俄羅斯國防部稱，這架米-8直升機奉命前往戰火紛飛的城市阿勒頗執行任務，在返回哈邁尼姆空軍基地途中被地面火力擊落。
Video footage, posted on Facebook by anti-government activists shortly before the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the attack, showed two burned bodies on the sand about 300 feet from what appeared to be a helicopter in flames.
俄羅斯國防部確認發生襲擊事件不久前，反政府活動人士在Facebook發佈了的一段視頻顯示，沙灘上有兩具燒焦的屍體，距屍體約300英尺處有一架在燃燒的直升機。
In the video, a number of men, some of them armed, cheered around the bodies, shouting “Allahu akbar,” God is great in Arabic. One of them jumped on a body, joyfully.
視頻上，許多男人——有些持有武器——圍着屍體歡呼，用阿拉伯語高喊“真主至大”。其中一個人興高采烈地跳上了一具屍體。
A set of images, also released online, showed two Russian drivers’ licenses — one belonging to a young woman, another to a young man — and a laminated Orthodox icon of God. It was not possible to establish the names of the people pictured on the licenses.
同樣被髮布在網上的一系列圖片顯示了兩份俄羅斯駕照——一份屬於一名年輕女子，另一份屬於一名年輕男子——以及一張有覆膜的東正教聖像。駕照照片中的人的姓名難以確認。
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, confirmed that all those on board had been killed, according to the Tass state news agency, and he expressed condolences to victims’ families.
據國有新聞通訊社塔斯社(TASS)報道，俄羅斯總統弗拉基米爾·普京(Vladimir Putin)的發言人迪米特里·S·佩斯科夫(Dmitry S. Peskov)確認，直升機上的人全部遇難。他還對遇難者家屬表示了慰問。
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which opposes the Syrian government and tracks the conflict from Britain through contacts in Syria, said the helicopter crashed near the village of Saraqib in Idlib province.
總部設在英國，通過敘利亞境內的聯繫人對墜機事件進行了追蹤的反政府組織敘利亞人權觀察(Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)稱，直升機是在伊德利卜省薩拉齊布村附近墜毀的。
The aircraft had recently delivered aid to two Shiite villages nearby that have long been surrounded by Sunni rebels, the group said.
該組織稱，這架飛機最近給附近兩個被遜尼派叛軍長期包圍的什葉派村莊運送過救援物資。
None of Syria’s many rebel groups immediately claimed responsibility for shooting down the helicopter. But at a news briefing Monday, Lt. Gen. Sergei F. Rudskoi, a senior member of the Russian general staff, said it had been shot down over territory controlled by the Nusra Front and “the so-called moderate opposition.”
事件發生後沒有任何一個敘利亞反叛組織聲稱對擊落直升機一事負責。但俄羅斯總參謀部高級成員謝爾蓋·F·魯茨科伊中將(Lt. Gen. Sergei F. Rudskoi)在週一的新聞發佈會上表示，飛機是在努斯拉陣線(Nusra Front)和“所謂的溫和反對派”控制的領地上空被擊落的。
Last week, Russia said it had established several humanitarian passages in Aleppo to let civilians and insurgents leave the area. So far, 324 civilians and 82 militants have left the city through them, Rudskoi said. (Opposition groups in Syria have disputed these claims.)
俄羅斯稱，上週它在阿勒頗設立了幾個人道主義通道，讓平民和叛軍離開該地區。魯茨科伊說，截至目前，已有324名平民和82名武裝分子經由這些通道離開。（敘利亞反對派組織對這些說法進行了駁斥。）
