VOA常速英语2022 戈尔巴乔夫逝世，享年91岁

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Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse¹ of the Soviet² Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.

莫斯科一家医院官员称，米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫于周二去世，享年91岁。戈尔巴乔夫在没有流血冲突的情况下，结束了冷战，但未能阻止苏联的解体。

Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, forged arms reduction deals with the United States and partnerships³ with Western powers to remove the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe since World War II and bring about the reunification of Germany.

戈尔巴乔夫是最后一位苏联总统，他与美国达成了削减军备的协议，并与西方大国建立了伙伴关系，以拆除自二战以来分裂欧洲的铁幕，并实现了德国的统一。

But his broad internal reforms helped weaken the Soviet Union to the point where it fell apart, a moment that President Vladimir Putin has called the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe⁴" of the twentieth century.

但他的广泛内部改革削弱了苏联，导致苏联解体，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京称这一时刻是20世纪“最大的地缘政治灾难”。

But Putin did express "his deepest condolences", according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as he told Interfax news agency.

但克里姆林宫发言人德米特里·佩斯科夫在接受国际文传电讯社采访时表示，普京确实表达了“最深切的哀悼”。

Ukraine's presidential office reported heavy fighting Tuesday in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, an area occupied by Russian forces, where Ukraine says it has launched a counter offensive to try to retake territory.

乌克兰总统办公室周二报告说，乌克兰南部，被俄罗斯占领的科尔逊地区发生激烈战斗，乌克兰称，他们在那里发动反攻，试图夺回领土。

Moscow acknowledged the offensive by Ukraine near the city of Kherson but also said it had failed and that Ukrainians had suffered significant casualties.

莫斯科承认乌克兰在科尔逊市附近发动了进攻，但也表示进攻失败了，乌克兰人遭受了重大伤亡。

Anna Chernikova in Kyiv updates VOA's Flashpoint Ukraine.

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What armed forces have Ukraine has confirmed as of now is that Ukrainian forces managed to destroy another pontoon crossing of the Russian forces across the Dnipro River.

乌克兰武装部队目前证实的是，乌克兰军队成功摧毁了俄罗斯军队横渡第尼普罗河的另一艘浮桥。

In one of the areas of the Kherson region, representatives of the Ukrainian forces said that about 30 units of Russian military equipment was destroyed with this heat and more than 80 Russian soldiers were killed.

在科尔逊的一个地区，乌克兰军队的代表说，大约30个俄罗斯军事装备在这种高温下被摧毁，80多名俄罗斯士兵丧生。

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