Ukraine on The March

原文地址：Ukraine on The March

• march: 匹配, 比赛, 赛, 游行, 火柴, 对手, 球赛, 敌手, 亲
  • 这里指在挺进中

It's not just one region. Ukraine is making progress in multiple places.

• New York metropolitain area: 纽约大都会
• province: 省

Ukraine’s advance has also undermined Vladimir Putin’s war propaganda

• propaganda: 宣传

European citizens are girding for a winter of high energy prices because of Putin’s restriction of gas sales.

• girding: 捆绑， 这里可以解释为: 正在为能源价格高涨的冬天做准备

...whether Ukraine can also make progress in two other regions where Russia is more entrenched

• entrenched: 更稳固的

If that advantage continues, dislodging Russia from territory it holds may be difficult.

• dislodge: 赶走/驱逐

Russia also has a history of forcing brutal losses on its own soldiers to win extended wars, and Putin has shown he is willing to commit atrocities (as he did in Syria and Chechnya) to exhaust an opponent.

• brutal: 残酷的
• atrocities: 暴行

out of a fear that such attacks might cause Putin to expand the war or use nuclear weapons.

• out of a fear: 出于恐惧

From a tactical standpoint, that restriction hurts Ukraine’s ability to win the war, because it means that Russia does not have to worry about defending its own territory.

• tactical: 战术上的