The tragedy is that the price of these illusions has been extraordinarily high in human terms – the ceasefire-defying death toll in eastern Ukraine has risen to more than 6,000 since April 2014 – and dangerously high in geostrategic terms as well. It looks like both sides are ready to fight “to the last Ukrainian.”
悲剧在于，从人道角度看，这些幻想的代价实在高昂——2014年4月以来，拒不停火已经在东乌克兰造成了超过6,000人死亡——从地缘政治角度看，代价也十分昂贵。看起来双方都誓将战斗到“最后一个乌克兰人”。