After a decade of war Syria has been carved into a patchwork of statelets, impoverished and, to varying degrees, cut off from the rest of the world.

经过十年的战争，叙利亚已经成变得四分五裂，国内各派分裂割据，国家贫困，而且在不同程度上与世界其他地区隔绝。

It hadn't fully annexed them, as it had Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, instead leaving the statelets in a kind of limbo of national identity: part Russian, part Ukrainian, generally miserable.

俄罗斯没有像吞并乌克兰的克里米亚半岛那样完全吞并这些国家，而是让这些国家处于一种国家身份的不确定状态: 一部分是俄罗斯人，一部分是乌克兰人，总体上很悲惨。

The village is on the front line that separates forces of the Ukrainian military from those of a secessionist statelet that calls itself the Donetsk People's Republic.

这个村庄位于将乌克兰军队与自称顿涅茨克人民共和国(Donetsk People Republic)的分裂主义小国的军队分开的前线。