RUSSIA’S CAMPAIGN of sabotage(破坏活动) against Europe has escalate(升级，加剧)d sufficiently that on September 18th Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, summon(召集，传唤)ed French party leaders and presidential candidates for a briefing on the threat of civilian casualties. “No one is safe,” Mr Macron told them, according to Le Monde, a daily. The Russians, he said, aim to “break our support for the Ukrainians(瓦解我们对乌克兰的支持)”.
俄罗斯针对欧洲的破坏活动已升级到如此程度，以至于9月18日，法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙召集法国各党派领袖和总统候选人，就平民伤亡威胁进行通报。据《世界报》报道，马克龙对他们说：“没有人是安全的。”他表示，俄罗斯人的目标是“瓦解我们对乌克兰人的支持”。
A day earlier Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, had cite(援引，引用)d intelligence that Russia intended to hit countries supporting Ukraine with drones or missiles, then claim the strikes were accidental. Russia wanted to “paralyse(使瘫痪)” NATO, he said, by testing Article 5(北约第五条集体防御条款) of its treaty, which pledges that an attack on one will be treated as an attack on all. A tepid(不温不火的，软弱的) response would cast doubt on(使……受到质疑) that commitment.
一天前，波兰总理唐纳德·图斯克援引情报称，俄罗斯意图用无人机或导弹打击支持乌克兰的国家，然后声称这些打击是意外。他说，俄罗斯想通过试探北约条约第五条来“瘫痪”北约，该条款承诺对一国的攻击将被视为对所有成员国的攻击。若回应软弱，就会让这一承诺受到质疑。
Russia has been staging deniable(可否认的) provocation(挑衅)s against European countries for many years. Since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 they have increased. There have been incursion(入侵，侵入)s by reconnaissance drones, hacking, arson(纵火), parcel bombs targeting cargo flights and plots to kill executives of European arms firms. In recent months the pace appears to have risen again. The Russian operations have three main goals, according to security officials: trying to coerce(胁迫，强迫) European countries into halting their support for Ukraine; raising the costs of providing that support; and attempting to make NATO look powerless(让北约显得无能为力).
多年来，俄罗斯一直在对欧洲国家进行可否认的挑衅。自2022年全面入侵乌克兰以来，此类行动有所增加。其中包括侦察无人机入侵、黑客攻击、纵火、针对货运航班的包裹炸弹，以及暗杀欧洲军火企业高管的阴谋。近几个月，节奏似乎再次加快。据安全官员称，俄罗斯的行动有三个主要目标：试图胁迫欧洲国家停止对乌克兰的支持；提高提供这种支持的成本；以及试图让北约显得无能为力。