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Ukraine has little more than 30 days left of fighting before the weather hinders its counter-offensive, the top-ranking US military officer says.

美国高级军官称，乌克兰在冷天气开始妨碍他们的反击前只有30余日的时间继续抵抗。

Speaking to the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Gen Mark Milley said colder conditions would make it much harder for Ukraine to manoeuvre.

He admitted the offensive had gone more slowly than expected. But he said: "There's still heavy fighting going on.

"The Ukrainians are still plugging away with steady progress."

Gen Mark Miley在接受BBC星期日Laura Kuenssberg节目的采访时说，温度降低后的环境将会更加不利于乌军的移动。

他承认，乌军的进攻比他想象的要慢很多。但他表示：“战斗仍在激烈进行。

”乌克兰军队正在坚持不懈地稳步取得战斗成果。“

Gen Milley said it was too early to say whether the counter-offensive had failed, but said Ukraine was "progressing at a very steady pace through the Russian front lines".

"There's still a reasonable amount of time, probably about 30 to 45 days' worth of fighting weather left, so the Ukrainians aren't done.

"There's battles not done... they haven't finished the fighting part of what they're trying to accomplish."

Gen Milley说，现在说大反击失败还为时过早。应该说，乌克兰”正在一步一个脚印地穿透俄罗斯前线。“

”还有相当一段时间，在天气变冷之前还有大约30到45天可以负隅顽抗，所以乌克兰人还尚有余息。

“还有没结束的战斗……他们还没有达成自己的战斗目标。”

Kyiv's counter-offensive, which was launched in the summer and aims to liberate Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine, has so far seen only small gains.

But Ukrainian generals claim they have breached Russia's formidable first line of defences in the south.

"I said at the very beginning of this [war] that this was going to be long, slow, hard, and high-casualty-producing, and that's exactly what it is," Gen Milley said.

基辅的反攻行动在夏天开始，其目标则是解放俄罗斯占领的领土，但截至目前收效甚微。

但乌克兰将军们声称，他们已经破坏了俄罗斯南部难对付的防守一线。

“我在最开始就已经说了，这场战争会漫长、持久、艰难、伤亡惨重，而目前的情况正是这样。”Gen Milley说。

In the same interview, Adm（Admiral） Sir Tony Radakin, the UK chief of defence staff, said "Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing".

"That is because the aim of Russia was to subjugate Ukraine and to put it under Russia's control", he said.

"That has not happened and it never will happen, and that's why Ukraine is winning."

在同一采访中，海军军官Tony Radakin，英国国防参谋长说道，“乌克兰正走向胜利，而俄罗斯正在失败的途中。”

“因为俄罗斯的目的是征服乌克兰并将它收至俄罗斯管辖之下。”他说

“这还没有发生，也永远不会发生，因此乌克兰会取得胜利。”

He added that Ukraine was making progress in its battle to regain its territory, having recovered 50% of the ground Russia seized.

Ukraine's progress was also down to the international community "applying economic pressure and diplomatic pressure, and Russia is suffering because of that", he said.

他补充道，乌克兰已经收回了50%俄罗斯掌控下的领土，他们在收回领土方面颇有所成。

乌克兰也在国际社会上获得了进展。“他们正在经济和外交两方面向俄罗斯施压，而俄罗斯正因此举步维艰。”他说。