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The mayor of a Ukrainian city is in Washington looking for help to rebuild
Reports of Russian atrocities2 in Bucha was a turning point in the war. It galvanized public opinion worldwide. Now, the city's mayor is in Washington, D.C., asking for help as they try to rebuild.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
Some of the earliest atrocities in Russia's war in Ukraine came in the city of Bucha. Now the mayor of that town is in Washington asking for help to rebuild. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.
MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE3: Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk calls this a war of civilizations, one that Ukrainians are now determined4 to win with help from the West. And he says that means holding Russians to account.
ANATOLIY FEDORUK: (Speaking Ukrainian).
KELEMEN: Just like Nazism5 was prosecuted6 after the Second World War, Russian fascists7 - or Ruscists, as he calls them - have to be brought to justice. He told the Wilson Center for Scholars, a Washington think tank, that 419 Ukrainian civilians8 were killed when the Russians occupied Bucha. The images of dead bodies littering the streets galvanize world opinion, says Mark Green, a former Trump9 administration official who now runs the Wilson Center.
MARK GREEN: And it is one of the ironies10 of this war that the very brutality11 that Putin tried to use to scare people, to beat them into submission12, actually had the reverse impact of awakening13 the world, of bringing the world together.
KELEMEN: He says it also accelerated and expanded U.S. support for Ukraine. Now some lawmakers are calling for more oversight14 to that aid. Brock Bierman, who runs a private aid group, Friends of Ukraine, is working with the mayor of Bucha to try to ease those concerns.
BROCK BIERMAN: They're not looking for a handout15. They're looking for a hand up. They need partnerships16. We have partnered with them in an equal way to rebuild a school, to provide assistance at the local levels, rebuild playgrounds.
KELEMEN: But with Russia continuing to bomb Ukrainian infrastructure17, the costs are mounting. Mayor Fedoruk blames the Russians for $1.5 billion in damages in Bucha alone.
FEDORUK: (Through interpreter) We are obliged to demonstrate, first of all to ourselves and for the whole world, that Bucha can be like a phoenix18, to rise from the dust.
KELEMEN: He's vowing19 to rebuild, but says Ukrainians won't forgive what Russia has done.
Michele Kelemen, NPR News, the State Department.
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2 atrocities | |
n.邪恶,暴行( atrocity的名词复数 );滔天大罪 | |
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n.署名;v.署名 | |
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adj.坚定的;有决心的 | |
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5 Nazism | |
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7 fascists | |
n.法西斯主义的支持者( fascist的名词复数 ) | |
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8 civilians | |
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓 | |
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n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭 | |
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n.反语( irony的名词复数 );冷嘲;具有讽刺意味的事;嘲弄 | |
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11 brutality | |
n.野蛮的行为,残忍,野蛮 | |
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12 submission | |
n.服从,投降;温顺,谦虚;提出 | |
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n.觉醒,醒悟 adj.觉醒中的;唤醒的 | |
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16 partnerships | |
n.伙伴关系( partnership的名词复数 );合伙人身份;合作关系 | |
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n.下部构造,下部组织,基础结构,基础设施 | |
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18 phoenix | |
n.凤凰,长生(不死)鸟;引申为重生 | |
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19 vowing | |
起誓,发誓(vow的现在分词形式) | |
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