Sirens did not wail(发出警报声) in the early hours(凌晨时分) of June 21st in Feodosia, an attractive resort town on the east coast of the Crimean peninsula. There was only the buzzing of drones and the sounds of explosions minutes later.(只有无人机的嗡嗡声和几分钟后的爆炸声。) The warning systems were turned off(关闭) some time ago(一段时间以前), not because the peninsula is safe but because otherwise “sirens would be sounding(发出声音) 22 hours a day and nobody would get any sleep,” a senior territorial official recently told radio listeners.
6月21日凌晨，克里米亚半岛东岸迷人的度假小镇费奥多西亚没有响起警报。只有无人机的嗡嗡声和几分钟后的爆炸声。预警系统早在之前就被关闭了，不是因为半岛安全，而是因为否则“警报会一天响22个小时，没人能睡个觉，”一位高级地方官员最近对广播听众说。
Residents suspect the authorities are concerned less about their rest than about disrupting the tourist season. Preserving the façade(假象，外表) of normality is becoming harder by the day(一天天，逐日). Crimea has been under constant(持续不断的) attack for months: military units, railway stations and power plants are being hit, and sometimes residential buildings as well. The resort town of Yalta is an exception: it is sheltered(受庇护的) by lush(茂密的) mountains and has no military targets. There, children jump from piers(码头) into the sea and there is hardly an empty sun-lounger(日光浴躺椅) on the beach. But the rest of Crimea has become a war zone(已成为战区).
居民怀疑当局更关心的是不扰乱旅游季节，而不是他们的休息。维持正常的外表一天比一天困难。克里米亚几个月来一直遭受持续攻击：军事单位、火车站和电厂被击中，有时还有住宅楼。度假城市雅尔塔是个例外：它有茂密的山脉庇护，没有军事目标。在那里，孩子们从码头跳入海中，海滩上几乎没有空着的日光浴躺椅。但克里米亚其余地区已变成战区。
On the night of June 20th Ukrainian drones hit power lines, blew up(炸毁) an oil terminal(终端，油库) in Kerch and damaged a ferry(渡轮) transporting cargo, one of sever(切断)al recent hits on ferries. Ferry crossings have now been shut down(关闭，停止运营), severing one of the peninsula’s main arteries(动脉，主干道) of supply. Lorries can now get in(进入) only via a highway through the Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions. But the land corridor is increasingly vulnerable(容易受到攻击的) to Ukrainian drones, as burned-out(烧毁的) vehicles along the road testify. Last week Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s defence minister, said Crimea could “in effect become an island”.(上周乌克兰国防部长米哈伊洛·费多罗夫表示，克里米亚可能“实际上成为一个岛屿”。)
6月20日晚，乌克兰无人机击中输电线，炸毁了刻赤的一个油库，并损坏了一艘货运渡轮，这是近期对渡轮的数次袭击之一。渡轮航线现已关闭，切断了半岛主要补给动脉之一。现在卡车只能通过一条经过顿涅茨克、扎波罗热和赫尔松地区的公路进入。但陆地走廊越来越容易被乌克兰无人机攻击，沿路被烧毁的车辆就是证明。上周乌克兰国防部长米哈伊洛·费多罗夫表示，克里米亚可能“实际上成为一个岛屿”。
