On this video: A Ukrainian Leopard 2 Tank Met A Russian Armored Column Head-On.
No.1
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS IN DALNJE
To surround.
The eastern fortress city.
Of Pokrovsk.
From the south.
‘Orcs’ forces first.
Have to roll back.
‘Elves’ defenses.
In Kurakhove.
A village on the bank.
Of the Vovcha River.
18 miles south.
Of Pokrovsk.
The ‘elves’ army’s 33rd.
Mechanized Brigade and its.
German-made Leopard 2A4 tanks.
Stand in their way.
On Monday.
A powerful ‘orcs’ force.
Rolled toward Dalnje.
Just south of Kurakhove.
Clearly aiming to fight.
Its way through the former.
In order to bypass.
And cut off the latter.
Well-aimed cannon fire.
From the 61-ton.
Four-person.
Leopard 2A4s.
— 31 of which equip.
The 33rd Mechanized Brigade’s.
Tank battalion —
Put a quick stop.
Put a quick stop.
To the ‘orcs’ assault.
As an ‘elves’ drone observed.
From overhead.
At least one Leopard 2A4.
Firing armor-piercing rounds.
Shot holes through.
Two ‘orcs’ tanks.
An armored personnel carrier.
And several other vehicles.
‘Elves’ drones chased.
After the survivors.
The ‘elves’ army’s 33rd.
Mechanized Brigade and its.
German-made Leopard 2A4 tanks.
Stand in their way.
“Effective work.
Just blows the heads.
Off the enemies.”
The 33rd Mechanized Brigade crowed.
The battle in Dalnje.
Was a return.
To form for.
‘Elves’ tanks.
The proliferation of.
Explosive drones has changed.
How tankers fight.
On both sides.
How tankers fight.
On both sides.
Of ‘orcs’ wider war.
On Ukraine.
The ‘elves’ army’s 33rd.
Mechanized Brigade and its.
German-made Leopard 2A4 tanks.
Stand in their way.
“Enemy and friendly drones.
Crisscross the air space.
Hunting for valuable targets.
Like heavy armor and artillery.”
An analyst wrote.
“This aerial cat-and-mouse game.
Has fundamentally.
Altered tank tactics.”
Today, it’s common.
For ‘orcs’ and ‘elves’ tanks.
To hide in treelines.
Emerging only to fire.
A few cannon rounds.
At targets miles away.
— or, less often, to lead.
Some desperate assault.
Like the ‘orcs’ attack.
On Dalnje.
It’s a new.
“Era of the cautious tank.”
The ‘elves’ army’s 33rd.
Mechanized Brigade and its.
German-made Leopard 2A4 tanks.
Stand in their way.
The 33rd Mechanized Brigade’s.
Up-armored Leopard.
2A4s were anything but.
Cautious on Monday.
They fought close.
— and won.
It helped.
The ‘elves’ tankers.
That the ‘orcs’ column was.
Led by two “turtle tanks”.
Fitted with bulky.
Anti-drone armor.
That obscures.
The crews’ visibility.
And also prevents.
The tanks’ turrets from rotating.
“Limited visibility and.
Engagement options.
Once you ‘turtled’.
Your tank.”
“— and suddenly you find.
Yourself in an engagement.
With a Leo 2.”
Quipped another analyst.
The ‘elves’ army’s 33rd.
Mechanized Brigade and its.
German-made Leopard 2A4 tanks.
Stand in their way.
The ‘orcs’ have redoubled.
Their offensive.
Toward Pokrovsk.
While also launching.
A counteroffensive against.
The ‘elves’-held salient.
In western ‘Mordor’’s.
Kursk Oblast.
U.S. President-elect.
Winner has pledged.
To end the war.
In Ukraine.
— potentially by leaning on.
‘Mordor’ and Ukraine.
To agree to a ceasefire.
Along the current front line.
The ‘elves’ army’s 33rd.
Mechanized Brigade and its.
German-made Leopard 2A4 tanks.
Stand in their way.
‘The One’ is determined.
To maximize ‘orcs’ gains.
And minimize ‘elves’ gains.
Ahead of possible negotiations.
The pace of ‘orcs’ attacks.
Has doubled or.
Tripled in Kursk.
In recent days;
There’s been an uptick in.
Attacks around Kurakhove, too.
The ‘orcs’ going for broke.
— but the ‘elves’ are, too.
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A Ukrainian Leopard 2 Tank Met A Russian Armored Column Head-On
No.2
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS IN TAVRIA
A ruthless double-tap.
Barrage by ‘elves’ rockets.
May have killed.
Or wounded.
Dozens of ‘orcs’ troops.
In southern ‘elves’.
Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
On or just before Saturday.
Worse is coming.
The administration of.
U.S. has finally.
Given Ukraine.
Permission to use its best.
U.S.-made munitions.
Against targets.
Inside ‘Mordor’.
An ‘elves’ drone.
Winging over Tavria.
Initiated the bloody chain.
Of events.
An ‘elves’ drone.
Winging over Tavria.
15 miles south of.
The front line in Zaporizhzhia.
Initiated the bloody chain.
Of events.
On Saturday.
When it spotted.
A large group of.
‘Orcs’ troops crowded.
Around their vehicles.
On the edge of a treeline.
An ‘elves’ drone.
Winging over Tavria.
Initiated the bloody chain.
Of events.
At least three.
M30/31 rockets.
Fired by the ‘elves’ army’s.
American-made HIMARS.
Streaked down.
The blasts killed.
Or wounded.
Many of the ‘orcs’.
Cruelly, the ‘elves’ gunners.
Held their fire.
Until the ‘orcs’ were loading.
The wounded in trucks.
A fourth round.
— possibly an M30.
packed with 400.
Grenade-sized submunitions —
Exploded among the survivors.
“Perfect hit!”.
Roared an ‘elf’.
War correspondent.
An ‘elves’ drone.
Winging over Tavria.
Initiated the bloody chain.
Of events.
The carnage was shocking.
But purposeful.
While the ‘orcs’ have.
Concentrated their forces.
In Donetsk Oblast.
In eastern Ukraine.
And Kursk Oblast.
In western ‘Mordor’.
They’re sparing just enough.
Troops and equipment.
To increase the pressure on.
The front line in Zaporizhzhia.
An ‘elves’ drone.
Winging over Tavria.
Initiated the bloody chain.
Of events.
According to a report.
‘The One’ aims to advance.
A couple of miles.
In Zaporizhzhia.
In order to capture.
— by March —
The village of Temyrivka.
Which lies.
At the juncture.
Of Zaporizhzhia.
Dnipropetrovsk.
And Donetsk Oblasts.
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A Horrific Double-Tap HIMARS Strike May Have Killed Dozens Of Russians
No.3
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS POPPING SMOKE
The proliferation of.
Tiny explosive drones.
All along the 800-mile.
Front line of ‘orcs’ wider war.
On Ukraine.
Ushered in what.
One think tank called.
“The era of the cautious tank.”
But in Kurakhove.
A front-line town in.
Eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
‘Elves’ tanks are anything but cautious.
The ‘elves’ have.
Little choice but.
To try, however.
To try, however.
Rolling out to meet.
A relentless ‘orcs’ offensive.
Tanks from at least two.
‘Elves’ brigades are battling.
‘Orcs’ assault groups.
At point-blank range.
— and popping smoke to escape.
The inevitable drone attacks.
On or just before Monday.
A pair of tanks.
— possibly from the 46th.
Air Mobile Brigade —
Engaged ‘orcs’ troops.
At close range.
In the ruins of.
A shell-blasted neighborhood.
The tanks fired and moved.
Fired and moved.
— and then sped away.
Under the cover of.
Their smoke generators.
Narrowly dodging.
At least one ‘orcs’ drone.
That swooped overhead.
The ‘elves’ have.
Little choice but.
To try, however.
To try, however.
The shoot-move-smoke tactic.
Is an effective one.
The shoot-move-smoke tactic.
Is an effective one.
“There are a few.
‘Elves’ battalions.
I see use smoke.
Very effectively.”
“And they take.
Noticeably fewer.
Vehicle losses.”
Noted one analyst.
‘Elves’ tank battalions.
Equipped with ex-German.
Leopard 1A5s and.
Leopard 2A4s.
As well as ex-Soviet models.
— T-64s and T-80s.
It seems — have been fighting.
Around Kurakhove for weeks.
The ‘elves’ have.
Little choice but.
To try, however.
To try, however.
In late October.
The ‘elves’ abandoned one.
Damaged Leopard 1A5.
While retreating west.
Toward the most defensible part.
Of Kurakhove.
Which lies on the west bank of.
A tributary of the Vovcha River.
An ‘elves’ artillery brigade.
Blew the bridge over the creek.
A few days ago in order to.
Complicate ‘orcs’ advances.
The ‘orcs’ are still coming.
They can ford the creek.
Erect a temporary bridge.
Over it.
Or just bypass it.
By rolling through.
The village of Dalnje.
A few miles to the south.
‘Elves’ tanks are confronting.
Them at every approach.
‘Elves’ tanks are confronting.
Them at every approach.
The ‘elves’ have.
Little choice but.
To try, however.
To try, however.
At least one Leopard 2 from.
The 33rd Mechanized Brigade.
Devastated an ‘orcs’ assault group.
On 12 Nov.
And now what appear to be.
T-80s or T-64s.
Apparently from the 46th.
Air Mobile Brigade.
Are outmaneuvering.
‘Orcs’ troops.
Apparently somewhere.
On Kurkahove’s outskirts.
The ‘elves’ have.
Little choice but.
To try, however.
To try, however.
The stakes couldn’t be higher.
The ‘orcs’ formations in the area.
Including the 102nd and.
103rd Motor Rifle Regiments.
Are trying to get.
Through Kurakhove.
In order to turn right.
And extend the creeping.
‘Orcs’ encirclement.
Of the fortress city.
Of Pokrovsk.
18 miles north of Kurakhove.
If Pokrovsk falls.
The whole ‘elves’ line.
In Donetsk.
Could collapse.
The ‘elves’ have.
Little choice but.
To try, however.
To try, however.
The ‘orcs’ aim to.
Reach Pokrovsk before.
The January inauguration of.
U.S. President-elect winner.
— who has threatened to end.
U.S. aid to Ukraine —
Throws the politics of.
The wider war on Ukraine.
Into chaos.
The ‘elves’ are willing to.
Take a lot of risks.
To stop them.
The ‘elves’ have.
Little choice but.
To try, however.
To try, however.
As recently as.
A few weeks ago.
It was rare.
For tanks.
From either side.
Of the wider war.
To risk a direct attack.
On enemy forces.
“The sky above the ‘elves’ positions.
Is a constant battleground.
Of its own.”
Another analyst wrote.
The ‘elves’ have.
Little choice but.
To try, however.
To try, however.
To survive.
Tankers shifted to.
An indirect fire.
Support role.
Angling their main guns.
To lob shells.
At targets.
Miles away.
That’s safer.
For the tankers but.
Also less destructive.
To the enemy.
The ‘elves’ have.
Little choice but.
To try, however.
To try, however.
That ‘elves’ tanks are fighting.
At close range again.
Speaks to the urgency.
Of this phase of the war.
But it may also speak.
To an improvement.
In ‘elves’ tactics.
— especially when it comes to smoke.
Using smoke for concealment.
“Takes a lot of coordination.”
The former analyst explained.
“Wind speed and direction.”
“Time of day.
Humidity, the terrain.
The skill of the artillery crew.
Etc. are all factors.”
“You have to consider.
Maybe one of the most?
Difficult things?
To coordinate?”
The ‘elves’ have.
Little choice but.
To try, however.
To try, however.
The defenders of.
Pokrovsk are counting.
On the defenders of.
Kurakhove to halt.
— or at least slow —
An ‘orcs’ offensive that.
Shows few signs of.
Ending any time soon.
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Popping Smoke & Dodging Drones, Ukrainian Tanks Blast Russian Troops
No.4
Kurama
(Japan)
A POET PUNISHED
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ aa’ll tell ye aall an aaful story,
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ Aa’ll tel ye ‘boot ‘the One’.
Noo who felt inclined to gann?
An fight in neighbour wars,
Who joined a troop of Cossacks that cared?
For nowther wounds nor scars,
But ‘the One’ got fat an growed and
Growed, an growed an aaful size.
He’d greet big teeth and a greet big gob
An greet big goggly eyes.
‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!’
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought —
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One of ‘orcs’.
Youngest political prisoners.
Has lost an appeal to overturn.
A five-year jail sentence.
He was only.
15 when he was.
Arrested in the summer.
Of 2023.
Noo who felt inclined to gann?
An fight in neighbour wars,
Who joined a troop of Cossacks that cared?
For nowther wounds nor scars,
But ‘the One’ got fat an growed and
Growed, an growed an aaful size.
He’d greet big teeth and a greet big gob
An greet big goggly eyes.
Authorities accused.
Him of joining.
The Freedom of Russia Legion.
— a paramilitary unit.
Composed of.
‘Orcs’ volunteers.
Fighting for Ukraine.
Against the ‘orcs’ army.
Noo who felt inclined to gann?
An fight in neighbour wars,
Who joined a troop of Cossacks that cared?
For nowther wounds nor scars,
But ‘the One’ got fat an growed and
Growed, an growed an aaful size.
He’d greet big teeth and a greet big gob
An greet big goggly eyes.
The Freedom of Russia Legion.
Is designated as.
Terrorist organization.
By ‘Mordor’.
And he was sentenced.
And he was sentenced.
To five years.
In a juvenile colony.
Noo who felt inclined to gann?
An fight in neighbour wars,
Who joined a troop of Cossacks that cared?
For nowther wounds nor scars,
But ‘the One’ got fat an growed and
Growed, an growed an aaful size.
He’d greet big teeth and a greet big gob
An greet big goggly eyes.
On Thursday.
The court of appeal reduced.
His five-year term.
- but only by 24 days.
He is one of nine minors.
Who have faced.
Politically motivated.
Criminal charges.
Since the start of.
The ‘orcs’ invasion of Ukraine.
And the subsequent crackdown.
On civil liberties.
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought —
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
He denies all.
The charges against him.
He denies all.
The charges against him.
He says he researched.
The legion but that.
He never applied and.
Has committed no crime.
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought —
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
His mother also maintains.
He is innocent.
His mother also maintains.
He is innocent.
“I just don’t understand.
The judge who.
Handed down.
The sentence,” she said.
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought —
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
Investigators have also claimed.
He distributed leaflets.
Critical of ‘the One’.
On the legion’s behalf.
He admitted to.
Distributing leaflets.
But denied following.
Instructions from anybody.
He did openly criticize.
‘Orcs’ invasion of Ukraine.
And ‘the One’.
In school.
‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!’
He was also politically.
Active on social media.
Reposting content from.
‘Mordor’’s opposition figures.
And occasionally sharing.
His own political content.
Including a video in which.
He can be seen.
Holding a solo picket.
In support of.
Late opposition politician.
Alexei Navalny.
‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!’
His mother says.
He was acting.
Of his own accord.
Of his own accord.
His mother says.
He was acting.
Not on the instructions.
Of the Freedom of Russia Legion.
‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!’
Yet, in late August.
2023.
Agents from the FSB.
‘Mordor’’s security service.
Searched his home.
In the small town.
Of Livny.
450km south of Moscow.
Agents from the FSB.
Searched his home.
And confiscated.
His electronic devices.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
The next day.
He was summoned for.
Questioning and.
Accused of joining.
The Freedom of Russia Legion.
“I was hysterical.
I was shaking.
Crying,” says his mother.
“He told me:
‘Mum, calm down.
I didn’t commit any crime.
They will work it out.’”
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
No lawyer was present.
During the interrogation.
Which his mother.
Deeply regrets.
She believes the FSB.
Subsequently added to.
The transcript a confession of.
Guilt that he never made.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
‘There’s the King’s Messenger.
He’s inprison now.’
Some of his schoolmates.
Were questioned.
By investigators.
And said he would.
Often criticize.
‘The One’ and.
‘Mordor’’s actions.
In Ukraine.
But in their statements.
None of them said.
He had a connection to.
The Freedom of Russia Legion.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
‘He’s inprison now.
Being punished;’
‘And the trial doesn’t even.
Begin till Wednesday:
And of course.
The crime comes last of all.’
Nevertheless.
He was formally.
Arrested.
The following week.
He spent several months.
Under house arrest.
As he awaited sentencing.
Then, last June.
He was transferred to.
A Moscow detention centre.
Where he has been detained.
Ever since.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
‘Suppose he never.
Commits the crime?’ Said Alice.
‘That would be all the better.
Wouldn’t it?’ the Queen said.
‘Of course it would.
Be all the better,’ she said:
In that time.
His mother says.
His weight has dropped.
From 69kg to 52kg.
As he struggled.
With lack of.
Appetite due to.
Constant stress.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
‘But it wouldn’t be all the better.
His being punished.’
‘You’re wrong there.
At any rate,’ said the Queen:
‘Were you ever punished?’
‘Only for faults,’ said Alice.
His mother also noticed.
He has withdrawn emotionally.
And that he often asks.
Why he is punished.
For something.
He did not do.
For something.
He did not do.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
‘And you were all the better.
For it, I know!’
The Queen said triumphantly.
‘Yes, but then I had done the things.
I was punished for,’ said Alice:
‘That makes all the difference.’
For a time.
He also had.
A violent cellmate.
Who attacked him.
A violent cellmate.
Who hit him.
On the head.
And threatened him.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
‘But if you hadn’t done them,’ the Queen said,
‘That would have been better still;’
‘Better, and better, and better!’
Alice was just beginning to say.
‘There’s a mistake somewhere-.’
When the Queen began screaming so loud.
His mother and his teachers.
Painted a picture of.
A highly intelligent and.
Politically engaged young man.
Who now faces.
Several long years.
In jail for a crime.
He did not commit.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
His mother said.
From a young age.
He had been passionate about.
Science, particularly physics and economics.
He had dreamed of.
Studying political science.
At a prestigious.
Moscow university.
“He wanted to improve.
Life in ‘Mordor’.”
His mother said.
“Life in ‘Mordor’.”
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
She spoke of her son.
Having a strong sense of justice.
Which he developed after.
Experiencing bullying at school.
He was frequently mocked.
And called derogatory names.
Because he was born.
In Dubai.
Because he was born.
In Dubai.
And his father was from.
The United Arab Emirates.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
His mother says that.
Since his arrest.
He no longer.
Has any friends.
As most have distanced.
Themselves from him.
As most have distanced.
Themselves from him.
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ aa’ll tell ye aall an aaful story,
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ Aa’ll tel ye ‘boot ‘the One’.
Her neighbours and co-workers.
Even accuse her.
Of having “raised.
A terrorist”, she says.
If he really was innocent.
They argue.
The court would.
Have acquitted him.
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ aa’ll tell ye aall an aaful story,
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ Aa’ll tel ye ‘boot ‘the One’.
She believes they don’t.
Fully understand.
How the ‘Mordor’’s.
Judicial system works.
Her standard response.
Is to hope.
They never have to encounter.
The system themselves.
“But if you do.
You’ll find out.”
“But if you do.
You’ll find out.”
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ aa’ll tell ye aall an aaful story,
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ Aa’ll tel ye ‘boot ‘the One’.
Noo who felt inclined to gann?
An fight in neighbour wars,
Who joined a troop of Cossacks that cared?
For nowther wounds nor scars,
But ‘the One’ got fat an growed and
Growed, an growed an aaful size.
He’d greet big teeth and a greet big gob
An greet big goggly eyes.
‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!’
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought —
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
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Russian anti-war teenager faces five years in jail after failed appeal
No.5
Kurama
(Japan)
A POET FROM USPENIVKA
At a shelter in Pavlohrad.
About 100km.
West of the slowly.
Shifting front line.
Evacuees are.
Constantly arriving from.
Villages and towns.
Overtaken by the war.
A woman, 31.
Is there with.
Her two sons.
The family cat lies.
Sleeping among.
The few belongings.
The family have managed.
To bring with them.
From the village.
Of Uspenivka.
Just outside the besieged.
City of Pokrovsk.
The family hung on.
In their house.
As long as they could.
But with explosions all around.
Shops closed and.
Roads cut off one by one.
They finally bowed.
To the inevitable.
They packed up.
A few bags.
Locked the door.
And left.
“We hoped.
The war would pass us.
And end soon.”
She tells you.
At a shelter in Pavlohrad.
About 100km.
West of the slowly.
Shifting front line.
Evacuees are.
Constantly arriving from.
Villages and towns.
Overtaken by the war.
Now, after two months.
Without electricity.
Or the internet.
She has her laptop.
She has her laptop.
Open on the bed.
And is catching up.
With the news.
“We hope things.
Will be better and.
The war will end.”
She replies.
When you ask.
About political changes.
Far away.
In the US.
“I hope the new president.
Will be better than.
The current one.”
At a shelter in Pavlohrad.
About 100km.
West of the slowly.
Shifting front line.
Evacuees are.
Constantly arriving from.
Villages and towns.
Overtaken by the war.
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No.6
Kurama
(Japan)
A POET FROM SUKHI YALY
She briefly sobs.
As she describes.
How her house burned down.
With all her possessions.
“They bombed so much.”
She says of the advancing.
‘Orcs’ army.
“It’s like the last judgement!”
At a shelter in Pavlohrad.
About 100km.
West of the slowly.
Shifting front line.
Evacuees are constantly.
Arriving from villages.
And towns.
Overtaken by the war.
An 83-year-old.
From Sukhi Yaly.
Near Kurakhove.
Has just arrived.
Near Kurakhove.
— another town.
Slowly being overrun.
By the ‘orcs’ —
In an adjacent auditorium.
Dimly lit and.
Warmed by.
A single bar heater.
Elderly evacuees are.
Being looked after.
By volunteers.
It’s a theatre of misery.
With still.
Exhausted figures.
Sitting or lying.
On camp beds.
Some apparently.
Lost in thought.
Some apparently.
Lost in thought.
She briefly sobs.
As she describes.
How her house burned down.
With all her possessions.
“They bombed so much.”
She says of the advancing.
‘Orcs’ army.
“It’s like the last judgement!”
At a shelter in Pavlohrad.
About 100km.
West of the slowly.
Shifting front line.
Evacuees are constantly.
Arriving from villages.
And towns.
Overtaken by the war.
Could Ukraine still win?
“God only knows.”
She sighs.
“My heart aches.”
“From what I hear.
We were bombed so much.
And so many people.
Died there.”
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No.7
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS IN A STREAM
Last weekend.
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
Kyiv would like.
To end the war.
Kyiv would like.
To end the war.
Through “diplomatic means”.
In 2025.
The war, he said.
Would end “sooner”.
With the new president.
In the White House.
It was classic.
‘Gandalf the Green’:
Part flattery.
Part challenge.
‘Orcs’ launched an enormous.
Ballistic missile strike.
On Dnipro.
Overnight too.
It was felt.
Across the city and.
Sent everyone.
To bomb shelters.
Among many of those.
Who have paid.
The heaviest price.
For ‘orcs’ invasion.
Peace cannot.
Come soon enough.
Even if that means.
Further sacrifices.
In Dnipro.
A steady stream of.
Injured soldiers.
Comes through the doors.
Of one of the country’s.
Many prosthetic centres.
A man, 27.
Lost a leg when.
Lost a leg when.
His unit came under.
Missile attack.
18 months ago.
He’s already used to.
His carbon fibre limb.
And is even training for.
Next year’s Invictus Games.
But when it comes.
To the war.
He’s less optimistic.
“I think most likely.”
“Two regions.
Donetsk and Luhansk.
Will be taken from us.
And Crimea.”
“I am not confident.
We will push them back.
From those regions.
We have neither people nor weapons.”
A growing minority.
Say they’re willing to.
Give up territory.
To secure peace.
Opinion polls paint.
A mixed picture.
But show that more and more.
‘Elves’ want this war to end, soon.
Especially here.
In the east.
Where the sirens sound.
Several times a day.
A growing minority.
Say they’re willing to.
Give up territory.
To secure peace.
“I think that.
The end of the war.
Will happen.”
Says a 28-year-old.
When you ask him.
What he expects when.
The new US president.
Takes office.
He is being fitted.
With his first prosthetic.
After losing a leg.
Three months ago.
“Either they will.
Agree and go to.
The 1991 borders.
Or the territories.”
“Will be surrendered.
The main thing is.
That the war ends.
And people stop dying.”
Among many of those.
Who have paid.
The heaviest price.
For ‘orcs’ invasion.
Peace cannot.
Come soon enough.
Even if that means.
Further sacrifices.
As the ‘orcs’ army slowly.
Advances in eastern Ukraine.
It’s driving a tide of.
Human suffering before it.
With two months to go.
Before a change of.
Administration in Washington.
Ukraine is wrestling.
With two problems:
How to stem the advance.
And how to prepare for.
The new president of the US.
Last weekend.
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
Kyiv would like.
To end the war.
Kyiv would like.
To end the war.
Through “diplomatic means”.
In 2025.
The war, he said.
Would end “sooner”.
With the new president.
In the White House.
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No.8
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS MANAGING
“Here we go again”.
Were the words of an official.
At one of ‘elves’ private.
Energy companies.
Summing up.
The mood.
Across the country.
On Sunday.
A “massive” ‘orcs’ missile.
And drone attack has.
Targeted power infrastructure.
Across Ukraine.
At least 10 people.
Were killed.
In the strikes which.
Hit the capital, Kyiv.
As well as multiple targets.
In several regions.
Including Donetsk.
Lviv and Odesa.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
The ‘elf’ foreign minister said.
And “critical infrastructure”.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
And “critical infrastructure”.
Were targeted.
Ukraine’s largest.
Private energy company.
Said its thermal.
Energy plants.
Had suffered.
“Significant damage”.
Resulting in blackouts.
Resulting in blackouts.
The country's state-owned.
Energy operator.
Says it will enforce.
“Restriction measures”.
“Restriction measures”.
For the whole.
Of Ukraine.
On Monday.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
The ‘elf’ foreign minister said.
And “critical infrastructure”.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
And “critical infrastructure”.
Were targeted.
The co-ordinated assault.
Overnight on Saturday.
Was largest of its kind.
Since early September.
In total.
Around 120 missiles.
And 90 drones.
Were launched.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
The ‘elf’ foreign minister said.
And “critical infrastructure”.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
And “critical infrastructure”.
Were targeted.
“‘Orcs’ terrorists.
Once again.
Want to scare us.
With cold.”
“With cold.
And lack of light.”
Was how ‘Gandalf the Green’.
Put it.
“Here we go again”.
Were the words of an official.
At one of ‘elves’ private.
Energy companies.
Summing up.
The mood.
Across the country.
On Sunday.
The governor of the Odesa region.
Said there had also been.
Disruptions to heat.
And water supplies.
Although the latter was.
Gradually being restored.
Hospitals and other critical infrastructure.
Were operating using generators.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
The ‘elf’ foreign minister said.
And “critical infrastructure”.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
And “critical infrastructure”.
Were targeted.
Further east.
The city of Mykolaiv.
Was also hit.
The region's leader said.
That the people were.
Resilient there.
Despite being.
Attacked regularly.
“People are in a good shape.
And want to defend themselves.
We do not want to.
Lose our homes.”
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
The ‘elf’ foreign minister said.
And “critical infrastructure”.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
And “critical infrastructure”.
Were targeted.
In Kyiv.
Fragments from.
Intercepted missiles.
And drones.
Fell in several places.
But there were.
No reports.
Of injuries.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
The ‘elf’ foreign minister said.
And “critical infrastructure”.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
And “critical infrastructure”.
Were targeted.
‘Elves’ officials fear.
The most recent strike.
Could signal another.
Concerted ‘orcs’ attempt.
To deplete the power grid.
As winter arrives.
Having already endured.
Two-and-a-half bitter winters.
Since ‘orcs’ full-scale invasion.
In February 2022.
‘Elves’ are bracing.
Themselves for another.
“Here we go again”.
Were the words of an official.
At one of ‘elves’ private.
Energy companies.
Summing up.
The mood.
Across the country.
On Sunday.
Through ingenuity.
And sheer determination.
Ukraine has managed.
To survive.
Each winter assault.
So far.
There is every chance.
It will again.
Although its generation capacity.
Is now less than.
A half of what it was.
In February 2022.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
The ‘elf’ foreign minister said.
And “critical infrastructure”.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
And “critical infrastructure”.
Were targeted.
Strikes on Odesa led.
To widespread blackouts.
That also affected.
Heating and water.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
The ‘elf’ foreign minister said.
And “critical infrastructure”.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
And “critical infrastructure”.
Were targeted.
The Vinnytsia region.
Was among those.
To be targeted.
By ‘orcs’.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
The ‘elf’ foreign minister said.
And “critical infrastructure”.
“Peaceful cities.
Sleeping civilians”.
And “critical infrastructure”.
Were targeted.
These latest attacks.
Come as both.
Ukraine and ‘Mordor’.
Continue to try.
To anticipate how.
US President-elect winner.
Will act once his administration.
Takes power in January.
There are fears.
In Kyiv that.
It may come under pressure.
To negotiate an end.
To the war that may.
Favour ‘orcs’ advances.
— ‘Mordor’ continues to control.
A large swathe of ‘elves’ territory.
‘Gandalf the Green’ has said.
He is certain.
The war with ‘orcs’.
Will “end sooner”.
Will “end sooner”.
Than it otherwise.
Would have under.
The new winner presidency.
“Here we go again”.
Were the words of an official.
At one of ‘elves’ private.
Energy companies.
Summing up.
The mood.
Across the country.
On Sunday.
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No.9
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS SPEAKING IN KARACHEV
Yesterday.
It was reported that.
The White House had belatedly.
Granted Ukraine.
Granted Ukraine.
Permission to fire.
American-made long-range rockets.
At targets in ‘Mordor’.
“Missiles will speak.
For themselves.”
‘Gandalf the Green’ stated.
After the news broke.
Hours later.
Under the cover of darkness.
An ‘elves’ battery.
Fired eight of.
The 3,700-pound.
Army Tactical Missile System rockets.
At an ‘orcs’ missile storage site.
In Karachev.
In western ‘Mordor’’s.
Bryansk Oblast.
60 miles from.
The border with Ukraine.
“Missiles will speak.
For themselves.”
‘Gandalf the Green’ stated.
After the news broke.
It’s clear why.
The ‘elves’ would target.
The 67th Main Missile and.
Artillery Directorate Arsenal.
In Bryansk.
Spreading across at least.
1.3 square miles.
The arsenal is.
One of the ‘Mordor’’s biggest.
Ammunition storage sites.
‘Elves’ drones previously.
Targeted the arsenal on 8 Oct.
It’s less clear.
How much damage.
The GPS- and inertially-guided.
ATACMS inflicted.
“Missiles will speak.
For themselves.”
‘Gandalf the Green’ stated.
After the news broke.
For around a year since.
Donating the 190-mile-range.
ATACMS rockets.
The White House had rejected.
‘Elves’ requests.
To fire the rockets.
At targets.
On ‘orcs’ soil.
Instead, the ‘elves’.
Fired the 1990s-vintage.
ATACMS.
In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.
— each of which.
Can scatter nearly.
a thousand grenade-sized.
Submunitions —
At ‘orcs’ airfields.
Supply depots and.
Troop concentrations.
In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.
“Missiles will speak.
For themselves.”
‘Gandalf the Green’ stated.
After the news broke.
The White House finally.
Changed its policy.
After North Korea sent.
Thousands of troops.
To reinforce ‘orcs’ troops.
Conducting a costly.
— and so far unsuccessful —
Counteroffensive in Kursk Oblast.
Just east of Bryansk Oblast.
A strong ‘elves’ force.
Occupies a 250-square-mile.
Salient in Kursk.
It seems Kyiv.
Is determined to.
Hold onto the salient.
As a possible bargaining chip.
Hold onto the salient.
As a possible bargaining chip.
In any future.
Ceasefire negotiations.
“Missiles will speak.
For themselves.”
‘Gandalf the Green’ stated.
After the news broke.
The White House reportedly.
Approved ATACMS strikes.
In support of ‘elves’.
Defensive efforts in Kursk.
But continues to bar.
But continues to bar.
Strikes elsewhere.
In ‘Mordor’.
The Bryansk arsenal.
Undoubtedly stores munitions.
For the 50,000 ‘orcs’ troops.
Fighting in Kursk.
“Missiles will speak.
For themselves.”
‘Gandalf the Green’ stated.
After the news broke.
The ‘orcs’ anticipated.
The change in ATACMS policy.
As early as a month ago.
— and began adding.
Earthworks and other.
Protective structures.
At their most vulnerable facilities.
In and around Kursk.
“Missiles will speak.
For themselves.”
‘Gandalf the Green’ stated.
After the news broke.
If the ‘orcs’ also fortified.
The 67th Main Missile and.
Artillery Directorate Arsenal.
In Bryansk.
The preparations may.
Have blunted the effects.
Of the rockets.
And their roughly.
8,000 submunitions.
That rained down.
On Tuesday.
On the 1000th day.
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No.10
Kurama
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A POET MARKING THE 1000TH DAY
“Maybe Ukraine will.
Have to outlive.
Someone in Moscow.
In order to.”
“Achieve all its goals...
To restore.
The full integrity.
Of Ukraine.”
Ukraine marked 1,000 days.
Since ‘orcs’ full-scale invasion.
On Tuesday.
With ‘orcs’ forces.
Waging relentless attacks.
In a bid to seize.
Key hubs.
In the east of Ukraine.
“Maybe Ukraine will.
Have to outlive.
Someone in Moscow.
In order to.”
“Achieve all its goals...
To restore.
The full integrity.
Of Ukraine.”
At the start of this week.
‘Orcs’ launched.
Its biggest aerial attack.
On Ukraine.
For almost three months.
Amid fears of.
A renewed strike.
On Wednesday.
Several Western embassies.
Closed their doors.
What happens beyond.
January is anyone's guess.
“Maybe Ukraine will.
Have to outlive.
Someone in Moscow.
In order to.”
“Achieve all its goals...
To restore.
The full integrity.
Of Ukraine.”
‘Gandalf the Green’.
On Tuesday presented.
His 10-point “resilience plan”.
To parliament.
And one defiant message.
Rang out.
In the Verkhovna Rada.
More than most.
“Maybe Ukraine will.
Have to outlive.
Someone in Moscow.
In order to.”
“Achieve all its goals...
To restore.
The full integrity.
Of Ukraine.”
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No.11
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS PEPPERING
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
For the eighth time.
In nine months.
‘Orcs’ trainees.
Gathered out.
In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.
Within the range.
Of ‘elves’ best.
American-made rockets.
Within the range.
— and those rockets.
Streaked down.
Inflicting mass casualties.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
That ‘orcs’ commanders.
Continue to conduct.
Training out.
In the open.
In broad daylight.
So close to the front line.
Of ‘orcs’ 33-month.
Wider war on Ukraine.
Speaks to widespread.
Leadership problems.
In the ‘orcs’ armed forces.
— problems that are bound.
To get worse.
In the coming weeks.
As Ukraine intensifies.
Its attacks.
On officers and their staffs.
In addition to.
Bombarding troops.
In training.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
On or just before Thursday.
Around a dozen ‘orcs’ troops.
Piled out of civilian vans.
Somewhere in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
In ‘orcs’-occupied southern Ukraine.
An ‘elves’ drone.
Winged overhead.
Silently observing.
An ‘elves’ HIMARS.
Wheeled, positioned.
No farther than.
57 miles away.
On the opposite side.
Of the front line.
Lobbed a single.
M30/31 rocket.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
The rocket struck.
Within yards of.
The ‘orcs’ trainees.
Peppering them.
The ‘orcs’ trainees.
Peppering them.
And their vehicles.
With lethal fragments.
The drone peered closer.
— and counted.
At least five dead.
Or badly wounded trainees.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
The strike could.
The strike could.
Have turned out.
Worse for the ‘orcs’.
The ‘elves’ gunners didn’t.
Follow up their initial launch.
With a follow-on volley.
— a so-called “double tap” —
Targeting the ‘orcs’ survivors.
The wounded trainees.
And any first-responders.
Who raced in to help.
A devastating double-tap.
HIMARS strike.
In Zaporizhzhia on Sunday.
May have killed dozens of ‘orcs’.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
All the same.
The death toll is.
Growing startlingly high.
As ‘orcs’ commanders continue.
To expose their training platoons.
To ‘elves’ rockets.
In eight strikes since February.
— some in Zaporizhzhia.
Others in Donetsk Oblast in the east —
‘Elves’ batteries.
Have killed hundreds of.
‘Orcs’ trainees.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
The anti-trainee raids.
Are reminiscent of.
A separate bombardment campaign.
The ‘elves’ waged against.
‘Orcs’ command staffs.
In Chornobaivka.
Adjacent to the city of.
Kherson in southern Ukraine.
‘Orcs’ forces.
Occupied Kherson.
For much of.
2022.
Until a swift ‘elves’.
Counteroffensive.
Liberated the city.
That fall.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
As a prelude to.
The counteroffensive.
‘Elves’ gunners targeted.
‘Orcs’ command posts.
In Chornobaivka.
22 times.
In eight months.
“These attacks.”
“Significantly degraded.
The ‘orcs’ ability.
To plan and conduct.
Coordinated operations.”
A trio of.
U.S. Army officers.
Wrote in.
A 2023 article.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
“Some suggest the ‘orcs’ experience.
At Chornobaivka.
And elsewhere can be.
Explained by the ‘orcs’ inability.”
“To overcome challenges.
In professionalism.
Training and communications.”
The American officers added.
The repeated attacks.
On ‘orcs’ trainees.
Indicate these.
Challenges persist.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
It doesn’t help.
Any efforts to reform.
Command processes.
That the ‘elves’ are.
Stepping up.
Their attacks on.
‘Orcs’ officers.
And their staffs.
Just a few days after.
The United States.
The United Kingdom and.
France authorized Ukraine.
To strike inside ‘Mordor’.
With U.S.-, British- and.
French-made munitions.
The ‘elves’ air force targeted.
A command post in.
Western ‘Mordor’’s Kursk Oblast.
With a whopping 10 ex-British.
Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
That raid may have.
Killed an ‘orcs’ general.
And wounded.
A North Korean one.
It should go without saying.
That eliminating senior.
Battlefield leaders.
And their combined experience.
Only worsens.
Only worsens.
An already dire.
Command environment.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
If there’s anything.
That might save the ‘orcs’.
From themselves.
In the coming months.
It could be the January inauguration.
Of U.S. President-elect winner.
He has threatened.
To let the ‘orcs’ do.
“Whatever the Hell they want”.
In Europe — and has signaled.
He may end U.S. aid.
To Ukraine.
That aid has included.
Both the HIMARS.
Launchers and.
Their deadly rockets.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
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No.12
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS HIGHLIGHTING
Four different distilleries.
In ‘Mordor’ were.
Targeted by ‘elves’ drones.
Early Tuesday.
It was the largest attack.
On ‘orcs’ alcohol.
Production facilities.
To date.
The plants also.
Supply fuel.
Used in.
The ongoing war.
— while a combined heat.
And power plant and.
Synthetic rubber plant were.
Also targeted in the strike.
‘Orcs’ may revolt.
If the nation's vodka.
Producers are.
Taken offline.
According to posts.
On Telegram.
An undisclosed number of.
Unmanned aerial systems.
Hit targeted facilities.
In the Tula region.
While another was directed.
At a plant in the Tambov region.
An additional distillery.
In the Novokhopersky district.
Of the Voronezh region was.
Also targeted in the drone strike.
‘Orcs’ may revolt.
If the nation's vodka.
Producers are.
Taken offline.
Though the Kremlin.
Quickly reported that.
The ‘elves’ drones were.
All shot down.
Users on Telegram.
Have shared photos.
And videos that.
Suggest otherwise.
The photos and clips.
Have seen been shared.
On X.
And show that at least.
One of the distilleries.
In the Tula region.
Suffered significant damage.
With the building engulfed in fire.
‘Orcs’ may revolt.
If the nation's vodka.
Producers are.
Taken offline.
The attacks highlighted.
That Kyiv has been.
Able to strike even.
Further into ‘Mordor’.
While ‘the One’ is.
Unable to control.
The narrative of.
‘Elves’ reach militarily.
The other side of.
This story is.
How many on social media.
Were quick to joke that.
‘Orcs’ may revolt.
If the nation's vodka.
Producers are.
Taken offline.
While meant as satire.
It actually misunderstands.
The significance of these.
Facilities to the war effort.
“These attacks were trying.
To get at the base of.
Many different aspects.
Of the war economy.”
“By taking out.
A cleaner and.
An astringent.
That's necessary for.”
“The production of.
All sorts of hardware.
Up the line.”
Was explained.
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No.13
Kurama
(Japan)
A POET SENSING
They appeared.
Seemingly out of.
Thin air starting.
On Wednesday:
A few ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Rolling south along.
The main road.
Into Kupyansk.
A city with.
A pre-war population of.
26,000.
Along the front line.
In Kharkiv Oblast.
In northeastern Ukraine.
The ‘elves’ expect.
The ‘orcs’.
To repeatedly attack.
In small assault groups:
It’s the ‘orcs’.
Standard tactic.
As their wider war.
On Ukraine.
Grinds toward.
Its fourth year.
The ‘elves’ didn’t expect.
The ‘orcs’ to deploy.
That tactic.
In Kupyansk, however.
They appeared.
Seemingly out of.
Thin air starting.
On Wednesday:
A few ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Rolling south along.
The main road.
Into Kupyansk.
The city is 100 miles.
From each of.
The main loci of.
The wider war:
Kursk Oblast in western ‘Mordor’.
And the area around the ‘elves’.
Fortress city of Pokrovsk.
In eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
So it came as.
A surprise to.
The ‘elves’ 114th.
Territorial Defense Brigade.
And adjacent units.
When those ‘orcs’.
Vehicles showed up.
In northern Kupyansk.
It seems they traveled.
Several miles from.
Their original positions.
To arrive in the city.
They appeared.
Seemingly out of.
Thin air starting.
On Wednesday:
A few ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Rolling south along.
The main road.
Into Kupyansk.
Drones eliminated.
The infiltrating ‘orcs’.
But that’s little comfort to.
The rattled defenders of Kupyansk.
It was claimed.
The ‘orcs’ sneaked.
Into the city dressed.
In ‘elves’ uniforms.
But at least one ‘elf’.
Soldier wasn’t content with.
Such a pat explanation.
For the infiltration.
“There are no.
Simple answers to.
Difficult questions.”
He wrote.
They appeared.
Seemingly out of.
Thin air starting.
On Wednesday:
A few ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Rolling south along.
The main road.
Into Kupyansk.
He retrospectively.
Sensed changes.
In the balance of power.
Around Kupyansk.
“Back in June-July.
As well as at the end of spring.
‘Elves’ forces gave.
The ‘orcs’ a normal tax there.”
‘Orcs’ would attack.
In groups of 10 or so.
Usually on foot.
— and promptly get wiped out.
The situation changed.
As summer wore into fall.
“In recent months.
This direction resembled chaos.”
“With the absence of.
A solid line.
With a torn front.
With an ‘orcs’ army.”
“That one to two men.
At a time.
Seeped deep.
Into our rear.”
They appeared.
Seemingly out of.
Thin air starting.
On Wednesday:
A few ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Rolling south along.
The main road.
Into Kupyansk.
‘Elves’ forces are tired.
And stretched thin.
All along the 800-mile.
Front line of the wider war.
But that’s not.
The only reason for.
The shift in momentum.
In the ‘orcs’ favor.
‘Orcs’ infantry.
Are no longer.
Just sitting.
In their trenches.
Most of the time.
Waiting for.
‘Elves’ drones.
To dive down on them.
The ‘orcs’ regiments.
North of Kupyansk.
Always had.
Enough infantry.
Even if.
Those infantry.
Were directionless.
And demoralized.
More recently.
The regiments “came up.
With motivation.
For that infantry.”
They appeared.
Seemingly out of.
Thin air starting.
On Wednesday:
A few ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Rolling south along.
The main road.
Into Kupyansk.
The source of.
That motivation.
Should be obvious.
Anticipating that.
U.S. President-elect winner.
Will lean on Ukraine.
To agree to an armistice.
That hands ‘Mordor’.
Control of any.
‘Elves’ territory it occupies.
‘The One’ has ordered.
His troops to go all out.
— and grab as much of Ukraine.
As they can as fast as.
They can ahead of.
The winner’s January inauguration.
They appeared.
Seemingly out of.
Thin air starting.
On Wednesday:
A few ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Rolling south along.
The main road.
Into Kupyansk.
It was predicted.
‘The One’ will reinforce.
The Kursk and Pokrovsk sectors.
At the expense of Kupyansk.
For that reason.
“The prospects for a large-scale.
Offensive by the enemy.
Remain unclear” in the city.
But that doesn’t change.
The fact that.
A bunch of ‘orcs’.
Rolled into Kupyansk.
In recent days.
Without ‘elves’ troops.
Spotting them.
In advance.
“The results.
At the tactical scale.
Are already visible.”
The ‘elf’ soldier wrote.
What happens.
What happens.
On the wider scale.
Remains to be seen.
They appeared.
Seemingly out of.
Thin air starting.
On Wednesday:
A few ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Rolling south along.
The main road.
Into Kupyansk.
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No.14
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS ACROSS THE OSKIL RIVER
But in Kupiansk.
A front-line city.
In Kharkiv Oblast.
In northeastern Ukraine.
It’s the ‘elves’.
It’s the ‘elves’.
Who may have.
The momentum.
The Khortytsia Operational Strategic Group.
Which oversees.
The approximately.
10 ‘elves’ brigades.
In and around Kupiansk.
Claimed its troops pushed back.
‘Orcs’ infiltrators.
On Tuesday.
Advancing under.
The cover of.
Intensive bombardment.
‘Orcs’ assault groups.
— apparently from.
The 25th Motor Rifle Brigade —
Entered the city.
Two weeks ago.
But attacking is always.
More resource-intensive.
Than defending.
And whatever advantages.
In people and equipment.
The ‘orcs’ had in the area.
Weren’t enough to cement.
Their gains in Kupiansk.
But in Kupiansk.
A front-line city.
In Kharkiv Oblast.
In northeastern Ukraine.
It’s the ‘elves’.
It’s the ‘elves’.
Who may have.
The momentum.
In what may be.
Best described as.
A desperate Hail Mary.
‘Orcs’ troops attempted.
To flank Kupiansk’s.
Defenders by.
Crossing the Oskil River.
In boats.
The ‘elves’ defeated.
This maneuver, too.
The ‘elves’ defeated.
This maneuver, too.
It helps that.
The Khortytsia OSG.
Still includes.
One experienced brigade.
That hasn’t been dismantled.
By ‘orcs’ attacks or.
Split up and dispersed.
By ‘elves’ commanders.
Desperate to reinforce.
Kursk and Donetsk.
The 14th Mechanized Brigade.
“Is one of the more skilled units.”
The 14th Mechanized Brigade.
“Is one of the more skilled units.
Of the ‘elves’ ground forces.”
Was explained.
But in Kupiansk.
A front-line city.
In Kharkiv Oblast.
In northeastern Ukraine.
It’s the ‘elves’.
It’s the ‘elves’.
Who may have.
The momentum.
The brigade rides in.
An eclectic mix of.
Armored vehicles.
Including modern ‘Elves’-made.
T-84 Oplat tanks.
And even newer.
Captured ‘orcs’.
T-72B3s.
Tanks from the ‘elves’.
4th National Guard Brigade.
— possibly up-armored.
1970s-vintage T-72Bs —
Tanks from the ‘elves’.
4th National Guard Brigade.
Have also been active.
Along the Kupiansk axis.
But in Kupiansk.
A front-line city.
In Kharkiv Oblast.
In northeastern Ukraine.
It’s the ‘elves’.
It’s the ‘elves’.
Who may have.
The momentum.
In one recent video.
Circulated by.
The ‘elves’ defense ministry.
One of the Guard tanks engaged.
Entrenched ‘orcs’ troops.
At point-blank range.
Firing steadily with its.
125-millimeter cannon.
As it slowly rolled away.
From the trench.
Its crew clearly.
Counting on.
Constant movement.
Constant movement.
To complicate.
Any return fire.
But in Kupiansk.
A front-line city.
In Kharkiv Oblast.
In northeastern Ukraine.
It’s the ‘elves’.
It’s the ‘elves’.
Who may have.
The momentum.
The liberation of Kupiansk.
Is rare good news for.
‘Elves’ outnumbered.
And outgunned army.
As the winter sets in.
And U.S. President-elect.
Winner’s January.
Inauguration looms.
He has vowed to end.
The war in Ukraine.
The ‘orcs’ aren’t giving up.
On Kupiansk.
If they can’t fully.
Capture the city.
They may settle.
For consolidating.
Their positions.
Along the Oskil River.
Which threads.
Through Kupiansk.
Through Kupiansk.
And largely defines.
The front line.
In the area.
But in Kupiansk.
A front-line city.
In Kharkiv Oblast.
In northeastern Ukraine.
It’s the ‘elves’.
It’s the ‘elves’.
Who may have.
The momentum.
“‘Orcs’ forces have.
Intensified attacks.
Using artillery.
Rocket launchers.”
Using artillery.
Rocket launchers.
And glide bombs.”
Was reported.
It is said that.
The ‘orcs’ goal is.
“To force.
The civilian population.”
“To evacuate.
From villages on.
The eastern bank of.
The Oskil River.”
But in Kupiansk.
A front-line city.
In Kharkiv Oblast.
In northeastern Ukraine.
It’s the ‘elves’.
It’s the ‘elves’.
Who may have.
The momentum.
‘Elves’ forces.
Are under.
Relentless assault.
In two critical sectors.
Of ‘orcs’ 33-month.
Wider war.
On Ukraine.
In two critical sectors.
In western ‘Mordor’’s.
Kursk Oblast.
Currently the locus of.
The fighting.
Around 20,000.
‘Elves’ troops are struggling.
To hold back at least.
50,000 ‘orcs’.
To hold back at least.
50,000 ‘orcs’.
As well as thousands.
Of North Koreans.
In southern Donetsk Oblast.
In eastern Ukraine.
A few battalions of.
Exhausted ‘elves’ regulars.
— each with no more.
Than 400 soldiers —
Are desperately.
Trying to avoid.
Trying to avoid.
Encirclement by.
A division of ‘orcs’.
Motor-rifle troops.
The balance of forces.
In this sector might be.
Five to one.
In favor of the ‘orcs’.
But in Kupiansk.
A front-line city.
In Kharkiv Oblast.
In northeastern Ukraine.
It’s the ‘elves’.
It’s the ‘elves’.
Who may have.
The momentum.
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No.15
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS SPEAKING IN MARYINO
On Wednesday morning.
‘Elves’ air force bombers.
Reportedly flung.
10 Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
At a target in Maryino.
A town in Kursk.
25 miles.
From the border.
Exactly what the ‘elves’.
Were aiming at with.
The 2,900-pound.
Cruise missiles is unclear.
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
The British missile.
Is just the thing.
To burst a buried.
Command bunker.
The ‘elves’ air force usually.
Fires the missiles from.
Low-flying Sukhoi Su-24.
Supersonic bombers in pairs.
The scale of.
The attack points to.
An extremely high value.
— likely fortified — target.
The British firm specifically.
Developed the Storm Shadow’s.
880-pound Bomb Royal.
Ordnance Augmented Charge.
Warhead for destroying.
Hardened structures.
Such as underground bunkers.
Such as underground bunkers.
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
The British missile.
Is just the thing.
To burst a buried.
Command bunker.
It’s not for no reason that.
When the ‘elves’ targeted.
An ‘orcs’ navy submarine.
In a drydock.
In occupied Crimea.
In September 2023.
They opted to fire.
At least one Storm Shadow.
According to one ‘orc’ blogger.
Wednesday’s target was.
A command post where ‘orcs’.
— and potentially North Korean —
Officers directed.
The 50,000.
‘Orcs’ and.
North Korean troops.
Attacking the 250-square-mile.
Salient that 20,000.
Or more ‘elves’ troops.
Hold in Kursk.
The devastating strike.
On officers and their staffs.
“Resembles an execution.
Of the defenseless.”
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
The British missile.
Is just the thing.
To burst a buried.
Command bunker.
The strike may have involved.
A record five ‘elves’.
Su-24 bombers.
Each clutching.
A pair of.
The precision-guided missiles.
Assisted by foreign experts.
The ‘elves’ air force modified.
Many of its.
Ex-Soviet Su-24s.
— dozens of which might still.
Be in service, despite heavy losses —
To launch Storm Shadows.
And similar.
French-made.
SCALP-EGs.
Launching Storm Shadows.
SCALP-EGs and soon.
‘Elves’-made rocket bombs.
Has become the primary mission.
Of the ‘elves’ air force’s.
Sole Su-24 unit.
The 7th Tactical Aviation Brigade.
Based in western Ukraine.
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
The British missile.
Is just the thing.
To burst a buried.
Command bunker.
When ‘orcs’ widened.
Its war on Ukraine.
In February.
2022.
The brigade’s crews were.
Still dropping unguided.
“Dumb” bombs.
“Now aviators are focused on.”
“The use of.
Western high-precision weapons.”
One ‘elf’ correspondent reported.
“Serious strategic tasks.”
Firing a cruise missile.
At an enemy from.
190 miles away is.
Safer than dropping.
A dumb bomb from.
Directly overhead.
But that doesn’t mean.
The missile strike is actually safe.
“Often an ‘elf’ pilot.
Works on targets.
When several enemy missiles.
Are already flying at him.”
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
The British missile.
Is just the thing.
To burst a buried.
Command bunker.
The risky strikes.
Are worth it.
The risky strikes.
Are worth it.
Ukraine builds large numbers.
Of locally developed.
Deep-strike weapons.
Including rockets.
Drones and glide bombs.
But few of them possess.
The penetrating power of.
A Storm Shadow.
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
The British missile.
Is just the thing.
To burst a buried.
Command bunker.
What is Storm Shadow?
An Anglo-French cruise missile.
With a maximum range of.
Around 155 miles.
The French call it SCALP.
It is launched.
From an aircraft.
Then flies.
At close to the speed.
Of sound.
Hugging the terrain.
Before dropping down.
And detonating its.
High explosive warhead.
Storm Shadow is.
Considered an ideal weapon.
For penetrating hardened bunkers.
And ammunition stores.
Such as those used by ‘orcs’.
In its war against Ukraine.
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
The British missile.
Is just the thing.
To burst a buried.
Command bunker.
But each missile costs.
Nearly USm.
So they tend only.
To be launched.
As part of.
A carefully planned flurry.
Of much cheaper drones.
Sent ahead to confuse.
And exhaust.
The enemy’s air defences.
Just as ‘Mordor’.
Does to Ukraine.
They have been used.
With great effect.
Hitting ‘orcs’.
Black Sea naval headquarters.
At Sevastopol.
And making the whole of.
Crimea unsafe for.
The ‘orcs’ navy.
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
The British missile.
Is just the thing.
To burst a buried.
Command bunker.
A military analyst says.
Storm Shadow has been.
A highly effective weapon.
For Ukraine.
Striking precisely against.
Well protected targets.
In occupied territory.
“It’s no surprise that.”
“Kyiv has lobbied.
For its use.
Inside ‘Mordor’ particularly.
To target airfields.”
“Being used to mount.
The glide bomb attacks.
That have recently hindered.
‘Elves’ front-line efforts.”
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
But 10 Storm Shadows is.
A lot of Storm Shadows.
The British missile.
Is just the thing.
To burst a buried.
Command bunker.
‘Gandalf the Green’.
Promptly vowed that.
The missiles would.
“Speak for themselves.”
The early-morning strike.
Which left the arsenal.
In Karachev in flames.
Was just the beginning.
Of what could be.
A powerful campaign.
Of deep strikes.
Aimed at ‘orcs’ forces.
And their command.
And supply infrastructure.
In and around Kursk Oblast.
In western ‘Mordor’.
Following the US’s lead.
The governments of.
The United Kingdom.
And France also authorized.
Ukraine to fire.
British and.
French munitions.
At ‘Mordor’.
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No.16
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS LOBBED
“This is yet.
More proof that.
‘Mordor’ has no interest.
In peace.”
‘Gandalf the Green’ wrote.
On X, adding:
“‘The One’ is not only.
Prolonging the war.”
“‘The One’ is not only.
Prolonging the war.
- he is spitting.
In the face.”
“Of those in the world.
Who genuinely.
Want peace.
To be restored.”
“If ‘Mordor’ doesn’t.
Like strikes.
Inside of ‘Mordor’.
It can simply leave” Ukraine.
Early Thursday morning.
Several ‘orcs’ warheads.
Penetrated the clouds.
Over the city of Dnipro.
The non-nuclear munitions.
Smashed into.
An industrial site.
A medical rehabilitation center.
The non-nuclear munitions.
Smashed into.
Homes and garages.
There were injuries.
“If ‘Mordor’ doesn’t.
Like strikes.
Inside of ‘Mordor’.
It can simply leave” Ukraine.
It seems.
One weapon.
Delivered all.
The warheads.
The telemetry.
— high and fast —
Indicated it was.
A ballistic missile.
It had “all the characteristics.
— speed, altitude — of.
An intercontinental ballistic missile.”
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
“If ‘Mordor’ doesn’t.
Like strikes.
Inside of ‘Mordor’.
It can simply leave” Ukraine.
In fact, it wasn’t.
An ICBM.
The heaviest and.
Longest-ranged class of.
Nuclear-capable rocket.
Capable of traveling.
More than 3,400 miles.
With a nuclear payload.
The missile that.
Struck Dnipro.
Ironically the center of.
‘Elves’ rocket production.
Reportedly launched from.
The ‘orcs’ missile test range.
At Kapustin Yar.
500 miles from Dnipro.
“If ‘Mordor’ doesn’t.
Like strikes.
Inside of ‘Mordor’.
It can simply leave” Ukraine.
“It’s not an intercontinental range.”
Noted an expert.
On the ‘orcs’ military.
‘The One’ confirmed this assertion.
Thursday afternoon.
When he announced.
The weapon that struck Dnipro.
Was “Oreshnik.”
That’s ‘orcs’-word.
For “hazelnut tree.”
An experimental.
Medium-range ballistic missile.
Targeting civilians.
With a powerful.
Multiple-warhead.
Ballistic missile represents.
“A clear and severe escalation.
In the scale and.
Brutality of this war.”
‘Gandalf the Green’ stated.
“If ‘Mordor’ doesn’t.
Like strikes.
Inside of ‘Mordor’.
It can simply leave” Ukraine.
MRBMs typically travel.
No farther than 600 miles.
‘Mordor’ has fired hundreds.
Of cruise and ballistic missiles.
Many of them.
Theoretically capable.
of delivering.
Nuclear warheads.
At ‘elves’ cities.
In the 33 months.
Since it widened.
Its war on Ukraine.
“‘Mordor’ is already.
Hitting ‘elves’ cities.
With everything it can.”
Wrote an Estonian soldier and analyst.
“If ‘Mordor’ doesn’t.
Like strikes.
Inside of ‘Mordor’.
It can simply leave” Ukraine.
In that sense.
The Oreshnik raid was.
Nothing new.
But heavier ballistic missiles.
With multiple warheads.
Are uniquely terrifying.
Given their association.
With nuclear war.
“The use of.
A novel delivery system is.
Likely a signal of escalation.”
An editor explained.
Lobbing an Oreshnik.
Or a similar long-range rocket.
At ‘elves’ civilians “is.
Meant to cross a threshold.”
He added.
The attack “seems highly likely.
It is intended to mirror.
ATACMS use in ‘Mordor’.”
“If ‘Mordor’ doesn’t.
Like strikes.
Inside of ‘Mordor’.
It can simply leave” Ukraine.
In the days.
Since Ukraine’s allies.
Authorized ‘elves’ forces.
To fire their best.
Foreign-made rockets.
And cruise missiles.
At targets on ‘orcs’ soil.
The ‘elves’ have bombarded.
An ‘orcs’ munitions depot.
In Bryansk Oblast.
With ex-American.
ATACMS rockets.
And fired British-made.
Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
At an ‘orcs’ and North Korean.
Command post in Kursk Oblast.
“If ‘Mordor’ doesn’t.
Like strikes.
Inside of ‘Mordor’.
It can simply leave” Ukraine.
‘The One’ said.
A “test” was.
Successfully.
Carried out on.
A non-nuclear hypersonic version.
Of a ballistic missile.
And that the “target.
Was reached”.
“In response to.
The use of American and.
British long-range weaponry.
On 21 November this year.”
“The ‘orcs’ armed forces.
Carried out a combined strike on.
One of ‘elves’ military-industrial.
Complex sites.”
“If ‘Mordor’ doesn’t.
Like strikes.
Inside of ‘Mordor’.
It can simply leave” Ukraine.
It’s possible ‘Mordor’ is trying.
To deter further ‘elves’ strikes.
But as a deterrent.
It’s unlikely to work.
“Since day one.
Of the invasion.
‘Mordor’ has struck Ukraine.
With nuclear-capable missiles.”
“Like Iskander.
Kinzhal and.
Kh-101/102.”
Wrote an analyst.
“Another ballistic missile launch.
Is no different.
Just more blatant.
Nuclear blackmail.”
“If ‘Mordor’ doesn’t.
Like strikes.
Inside of ‘Mordor’.
It can simply leave” Ukraine.
“This is yet.
More proof that.
‘Mordor’ has no interest.
In peace.”
‘Gandalf the Green’ wrote.
On X, adding:
“‘The One’ is not only.
Prolonging the war.”
“‘The One’ is not only.
Prolonging the war.
- he is spitting.
In the face.”
“Of those in the world.
Who genuinely.
Want peace.
To be restored.”
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The New Missile Russia Fired At Ukraine Was Made By Treaty-Dodgers
Russia Ukraine war: Putin warns West as 'new missile' fired
No.17
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS BATTERED
In the span of.
Three alarming days.
This summer.
‘Orcs’ rockets badly bled.
The battered ‘elves’ air force.
— destroying at least three.
Precious fighter jets.
In brazen deep strikes.
Months later.
It happened again.
Months later.
It happened again.
The raid was ominously.
Reminiscent of.
The attacks.
This summer.
On or just before Friday.
An ‘orcs’ surveillance drone.
Winged unimpeded over.
Aviatorskoe-Dnipro air base.
Near the city of Dnipro.
50 miles from.
The front line.
In eastern Ukraine.
Dnipro was the target.
Of a recent strike.
By ‘orcs’ experimental.
Oreshnik ballistic missile.
The drone zeroed in.
On a shelter apparently.
Housing an ‘elves’ air force.
Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter.
Minutes later.
An Iskander ballistic missile.
Streaked down.
— and exploded directly.
— and exploded directly.
Over the shelter.
Likely destroying.
The MiG.
Months later.
It happened again.
Months later.
It happened again.
The raid was ominously.
Reminiscent of.
The attacks.
This summer.
On 1 July.
An ‘orcs’ drone spotted.
Six ‘elves’ air force.
Sukhoi Su-27 fighters.
Parked in the open.
In broad daylight.
At Mirgorod air base.
In northern Ukraine.
100 miles from.
The border with ‘Mordor’.
An Iskander destroyed.
Two of the supersonic fighters.
The next day.
Something similar happened.
An ‘orcs’ drone flew circles.
Over the ‘elves’ air base.
In Poltava.
Just east of Mirgorod.
And also 100 miles.
From the border.
After hours of surveillance.
An Iskander exploded.
— damaging if.
Not destroying.
— damaging if.
Not destroying.
An ‘elves’ army Mil.
Mi-24 gunship helicopter.
On 3 July.
The ‘orcs' targeted.
Dolgintsevo air base.
Near Kryvyi Rih.
Just 45 miles.
From the front line.
In southern Ukraine.
A drone scanned.
The base and.
As many as three.
As many as three.
Iskanders rained down.
The drone’s video feed.
Seemed to confirm.
The destruction of.
Two airframes:
One, a non-flying decoy.
Sukhoi Su-25 attack jet;
The other.
An operational MiG-29.
Months later.
It happened again.
Months later.
It happened again.
The raid was ominously.
Reminiscent of.
The attacks.
This summer.
We can assume.
The Su-25 was decoy.
Because it matched.
The profile.
Of another decoy Su-25.
That the ‘orcs’ struck.
At Dolgintsevo.
Back in November 2023.
During an earlier round of.
Strikes on ‘elves’ air bases.
That destroyed two MiG-29s.
And an operational Su-25.
Months later.
It happened again.
Months later.
It happened again.
The raid was ominously.
Reminiscent of.
The attacks.
This summer.
Since the fall.
Of 2023.
‘Orcs’ raids on ‘elves’ airfields.
Have knocked out.
At least two Su-27s.
Four MiG-29s.
An Su-25 and.
Potentially the Mi-24.
It’s a startling rate.
Of loss for a military.
That might have fewer than.
100 operational warplanes.
And just 50.
Or so gunships.
The Iskander attacks.
Are only possible.
Because of what.
One analyst described as.
‘Orcs’ “continuous and.
Dense surveillance” of Ukraine.
Which provides.
The targeting coordinates.
For the missiles.
Despite acquiring hundreds.
Of air-defense systems.
From its allies.
Ukraine still can’t.
Fully defend its airspace.
— at least not thoroughly.
Enough to prevent.
Missile raids on air bases.
And the warplanes they host.
Months later.
It happened again.
Months later.
It happened again.
The raid was ominously.
Reminiscent of.
The attacks.
This summer.
That’s bad news for.
The ‘elves’ air force.
As it struggles to source planes for.
Its war-weary fighter brigades.
Realistically, there are.
No more easy sources.
For spare MiG-29s.
And Su-25s:
Ukraine’s closest allies.
Have already donated.
All of the ex-Soviet jets.
They can spare.
No allied countries.
Possess Su-27s.
The only fresh MiGs.
And Sukhois will.
The only fresh MiGs.
And Sukhois will.
Have to come from.
Ukraine itself.
— from the vast stocks.
Of old airframes left behind.
By the departing Soviet.
Air force in 1991.
How many of those.
Airframes are recoverable.
After potentially decades.
In storage is.
An open question.
And an urgent one.
An open question.
And an urgent one.
Months later.
It happened again.
Months later.
It happened again.
The raid was ominously.
Reminiscent of.
The attacks.
This summer.
Ukraine is slowly.
Taking delivery of.
As many as 85.
Ex-European Lockheed Martin.
F-16s.
As well as around.
A dozen ex-French.
Dassault Mirage 2000s.
These nearly 100.
Donated fighters will.
Eventually comprise the core.
Of a rebuilt ‘elves’ air force.
But it could take.
A year or longer.
For all the planes.
To arrive.
Months later.
It happened again.
Months later.
It happened again.
The raid was ominously.
Reminiscent of.
The attacks.
This summer.
And unless Ukraine.
Can significantly improve.
Its air defenses.
The newly arrived jets will be.
Just as vulnerable as.
The MiGs and Sukhois.
That keep getting.
Blown up by ‘orcs’ missiles.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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A Russian Drone Flew Over A Ukrainian Air Base, Picking Targets
No.18
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS REPULSING
‘Elves’ forces.
Continue to suffer.
The consequences.
Of their defeat.
In Vuhledar.
A fortress town.
In eastern ‘elves’.
Donetsk Oblast.
Advancing past Vuhledar.
A ramshackle ‘orcs’ force.
Is in a position.
To flank ‘elves’ troops.
In their fallback.
In their fallback.
Position in the town.
Of Velyka Novosilka.
If ‘orcs’ troops.
Can get around.
The fortifications.
In Velyka Novosilka.
They might be able to.
Duplicate this maneuver.
In other sectors.
In the east.
“The news coming from.
The Velyka Novosilka area.
Is very bad.”
Warned an analyst.
“There is no way.
To sugarcoat it.
— the area has reached crisis.
And needs immediate intervention.”
Vuhledar anchored.
The ‘elves’ defensive line.
In southern Donetsk.
For two years.
Its garrison.
— the 72nd Mechanized Brigade —
Repulsing repeated.
‘Orcs’ assaults.
But the ‘elves’ command.
Never significantly reinforced.
The 72nd Mechanized Brigade.
Instead deploying any available forces.
To bold, and high-risk.
Operations such as.
‘Elves’ August invasion of.
‘Mordor’’s Kursk Oblast.
If ‘orcs’ troops.
Can get around.
The fortifications.
In Velyka Novosilka.
They might be able to.
Duplicate this maneuver.
In other sectors.
In the east.
So the ‘orcs’ were able to.
Gradually grind down.
The 72nd Mechanized Brigade.
And ultimately force.
Its few surviving troops.
To retreat.
From Vuhledar.
In late September.
The retreat collapsed.
The front line.
In southern Donetsk.
‘Elves’ forces fell back.
To secondary positions.
Effectively handing ‘orcs’ forces.
More than a hundred.
Square miles of Donetsk.
With many of its best forces.
Still tied up in Kursk.
Ukraine is still struggling to.
Stabilize the front line in Donetsk.
If ‘orcs’ troops.
Can get around.
The fortifications.
In Velyka Novosilka.
They might be able to.
Duplicate this maneuver.
In other sectors.
In the east.
This week.
An ‘orcs’ assault group.
With a bizarre mix of.
Up-armored artillery.
Tractors and turtle tanks.
Got swarmed by.
‘Elves’ drones and.
Thoroughly wrecked.
— possibly from.
The 131st Motor Rifle Regiment.
37th Motor Rifle Brigade.
Or 40th Naval Infantry Brigade—
But other ‘orcs’ assault groups.
Managed to maneuver.
Past and then.
Around Velyka Novosilka.
Advancing on the town’s.
Eastern flank.
“Velyka Novosilka itself.
Should have very good defenses.”
The analyst noted.
“But the defenses are meant.
To stop attacks from the south.
Not the north and east.”
If ‘orcs’ troops.
Can get around.
The fortifications.
In Velyka Novosilka.
They might be able to.
Duplicate this maneuver.
In other sectors.
In the east.
The ‘elves’ garrison.
Is in danger of.
Being partially encircled.
The ‘elves’ garrison.
— including elements of.
The 48th Assault Battalion.
The Presidential Brigade and.
The 17th National Guard Brigade —
“‘Orcs’ forces may attempt.
To bypass the eastern flank.
Of ‘elves’ positions.
In Velyka Novosilka.”
“And intensify pressure.
On Velyka Novosilka.
From the south to force.
‘Elves’ Defense Forces units.”
“To withdraw from the village.
Enabling further advancement.
Toward the southwestern edge.
Of Donetsk Oblast,” was explained.
If ‘orcs’ troops.
Can get around.
The fortifications.
In Velyka Novosilka.
They might be able to.
Duplicate this maneuver.
In other sectors.
In the east.
“Losing the town.
Of Velyka Novosilka.
Will not, in itself.
Be that much of a disaster.”
“In the grand scheme.
Of things.”
The analyst explained.
“It is just one town.”
“It is the fact that.
‘Orcs’ is attacking.
The defensive line.
From the flank.”
“The defensive line.
From the flank.
Parallel to the defenses.
Which is the true disaster.”
If ‘orcs’ troops.
Can get around.
The fortifications.
In Velyka Novosilka.
They might be able to.
Duplicate this maneuver.
In other sectors.
In the east.
Ominously, there probably.
Aren’t many ‘elves’ reserves.
In the area that could.
Staunch the infiltrations.
“The strength of these defenses.
And the difficulty of.
Attacking this ground.
Allowed Ukraine.”
“To underman.
These areas to shift.
Forces to other areas.”
The analyst pointed out.
“That's over.
Now you need to begin.
Sacrificing other areas.
To defend here.”
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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Russian Troops Are Maneuvering Around Ukrainian Defenses In Donetsk
No.19
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS SPEAKING IN KHALINO
The storm finally rolled.
In early Monday morning.
“What the fuck?
It’s exploding!”
An ‘orc’ servicemember.
Exclaimed in a video.
As at least one of.
The 3,700-pound ATACMS.
Burst over.
Khalino air base.
In Kursk 70 miles from.
The ‘Mordor’-Ukraine border.
“What the fuck?
It’s exploding!”
An ATACMS ranges.
As far as 190 miles.
The storm finally rolled.
In early Monday morning.
“What the fuck?
It’s exploding!”
The raid may have had.
The effect of “potentially.
Temporarily putting the airfield.
Out of action,” was reported.
That’s good news for.
The 20,000-strong.
‘Elves’ force holding.
A 250-square-mile salient.
Around the town.
Of Sudzha.
50 miles southwest.
Of Khalino.
That force is expecting.
A massive ‘orcs’ assault.
In the coming days.
In the coming days.
The storm finally rolled.
In early Monday morning.
“What the fuck?
It’s exploding!”
Khalino is the closest.
Major airfield.
To the Kursk battlefield.
So it makes sense.
That the ‘orcs’ air force.
Has been staging.
Its main ground-attack jets.
Subsonic Sukhoi Su-25s.
At the base.
The ‘orcs’ Su-25 force.
Has been badly bled.
By ‘elves’ air defenses.
In the 33 months of ‘orcs’.
Wider war on Ukraine:
The ‘elves’ have shot down.
Or damaged around.
Three dozen of the roughly.
200 Su-25s.
The ‘orcs’ operated.
Prior to 2022.
The storm finally rolled.
In early Monday morning.
“What the fuck?
It’s exploding!”
The Khalino strike.
May have knocked out.
Additional Su-25s.
But the ‘orcs’ have been.
Scrambling to build.
Revetments at the base.
Potentially offering.
Some protection for the planes.
And it’s possible.
Many of the Su-25s.
Evacuated just prior.
To the ATACMS raid.
“Activity at the base.
Had noticeably decreased.
In recent days.
Leaving it unclear.”
“Whether significant numbers.
Of aircraft were hit.”
“Whether significant numbers.
Of aircraft were hit.”
The storm finally rolled.
In early Monday morning.
“What the fuck?
It’s exploding!”
That doesn’t mean the base.
Weren’t worth striking.
With one or more of ‘elves’.
Modest inventory of ATACMS.
— specifically, its fuel tanks.
Command facilities.
And warehouses and.
Nearby air-defense batteries —
That doesn’t mean the base.
Which may have numbered.
Just a few dozen rockets.
At its peak, weren’t worth.
The storm finally rolled.
In early Monday morning.
“What the fuck?
It’s exploding!”
The hit on Khalino could.
Deprive ‘orcs’ drone force of.
A critical front-line.
Staging base.
And if any surface-to-air.
Missile batteries or radars.
Went up in flames.
In the raid.
There could be.
A new gap.
A new gap.
In ‘orcs’ air defenses.
That “could create opportunities.
For future strikes.
With more cheap and.
Numerous drones.”
The storm finally rolled.
In early Monday morning.
“What the fuck?
It’s exploding!”
Monday’s ATACMS strike.
Is the third.
Major ‘elves’ deep strike.
On strategic targets.
In and around Kursk.
Since the United States.
— and later the United Kingdom.
And France — authorized.
Ukraine to use.
Its best foreign-made.
Missiles against targets.
Inside ‘Mordor’.
The storm finally rolled.
In early Monday morning.
“What the fuck?
It’s exploding!”
As the battle for Kursk escalates.
More ‘elves’ strikes are likely.
And further ‘orcs’ retaliation.
Is likely, too.
The terrifying ballistic missile raid.
On the ‘elves’ city.
Of Dnipro on Thursday.
Is widely viewed.
As a response.
To those ATACMS.
Thundering down.
On ‘Mordor’.
The storm finally rolled.
In early Monday morning.
“What the fuck?
It’s exploding!”
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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American-Made ATACMS Rain Down On A Front-Line Russian Air Base
No.20
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS BACK IN ACTION
After a four-month absence.
‘Elves’ World War I-style.
Drone-blasting propeller plane.
May be back in action over Odesa.
The piston-engine.
Yakovlev Yak-52 trainer.
A 1970s-vintage.
Soviet leftover.
Reportedly returned.
To the sky.
Over the port city.
On the Black Sea.
On Tuesday.
To chase down.
‘Orcs’ surveillance drones.
The 2,900-pound plane.
— a pilot in the front seat.
And, presumably.
A shotgun-wielding gunner.
In the back seat —
“Expended 1,000 liters.
Of fuel and.
Had to land.
For more mid-fight.”
According to an ‘elves’.
Navy sailor in Odesa.
“Had to land.
For more mid-fight.”
In any event.
It’s drone-hunting season again.
If the navy sailor’s.
Information is accurate.
In five hours of maneuvering.
The 180-mile-per-hour.
Yak-52 reportedly shot down.
At least one Orlan drone.
The Orlans fly over Odesa.
To spot targets for.
Follow-on attacks.
By long-range missiles.
A Yak-52 costing.
At most a few.
Hundred dollars.
Per flight hour is.
An efficient way of.
Shooting down drones.
That themselves cost.
Around 0,000.
In any event.
It’s drone-hunting season again.
If the navy sailor’s.
Information is accurate.
There’s no official confirmation.
Of the Yak-52’s return.
To flight since the plane last.
Appeared over Odesa in July.
But then, there’s never been.
Much official information on.
The Yak-52’s daring patrols.
Over the port city.
In a heady three months.
Starting in May.
The piston plane shot down.
At least a dozen ‘orcs’ drones.
Fans of the barnstormer.
Posted videos and photos.
Of the Yak-52 in action.
And on the ground.
A growing number of.
Kill markings on the side of.
The old trainer spoke to.
Its effectiveness as a drone-hunter.
In any event.
It’s drone-hunting season again.
If the navy sailor’s.
Information is accurate.
It worked so well that.
The ‘elves’ intelligence directorate.
Began training gunners to hunt.
‘Orcs’ unmanned aerial vehicles.
From locally-made.
Aeroprakt A-22 sport planes.
Admittedly.
It’s strange that.
The Yak-52 reportedly burned.
1,000 liters of fuel.
During its purported long sortie.
Over Odesa on Tuesday.
The most capacious version.
Of the Yakovlev trainer has.
A maximum fuel capacity.
Of 280 liters.
If the ‘elves’ aviators.
Really did burn around.
Three full loads of fuel.
Returning to base.
At least twice to top off.
They must’ve been flying hard.
— climbing, diving and turning —
To draw a bead on the Orlans.
In any event.
It’s drone-hunting season again.
If the navy sailor’s.
Information is accurate.
Fresh photos and videos.
May provide further insight.
Into this possible new round.
Of Yak-52 sorties.
But then, there’s reason.
To believe the Odesa crew.
And its boosters might refrain.
From enthusiastically posting.
After the Yak-52 become.
Internationally famous this summer.
‘Orcs’ forces apparently.
Attempted to destroy the plane.
By lobbing missiles.
At what may have been.
Its home airfield.
Back in July.
In any event.
It’s drone-hunting season again.
If the navy sailor’s.
Information is accurate.
The subsequent disappearance.
Of the Yak-52.
From social media.
Seemingly implied.
The plane had been badly damaged.
Maybe it was damaged.
And underwent repairs.
Through the fall.
Maybe it escaped damage.
— and its crew decided.
To lie low.
For a while.
Maybe it was never.
Maybe it was never.
At that airfield.
The orcs’ bombarded.
After a four-month absence.
‘Elves’ World War I-style.
Drone-blasting propeller plane.
May be back in action over Odesa.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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Ukraine’s World War I-Style Drone-Hunting Plane May Be Back In Action
No.21
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS POSITIONING JUST WEST OF NOVOVODYANE
Consider what happened.
When a long column of.
‘Orcs’ vehicles.
Possibly belonging to.
The 3rd Motor Rifle Division.
Rolled toward the positions.
Of the ‘elves’ 3rd Assault Brigade.
Just west of Novovodyane.
Just west of Novovodyane.
— on the border of.
Donetsk and Kharkiv Oblasts —
On 21 November.
And dropped off.
Seemingly dozens of.
Infantry who then.
Advanced on foot.
The 3rd Assault Brigade’s.
Drones and artillery.
Harried the vehicles.
Destroying or.
Damaging several.
And then turned.
Their attention to.
The dismounted infantry.
Explosive first-person-view.
Drones barreled down.
Bigger bomber drones.
Hovered overhead.
Dropping grenades.
Cluster artillery popped open.
Scattering scores of.
Lethal submunitions.
When the dust and.
Smoke cleared.
The ‘orcs’ assault force was.
Scattered and smashed.
Dead infantry littered.
The road and fields.
The luckiest ‘orcs’.
Made it just.
A thousand feet.
From their apparent.
Start point.
In Novovodyane.
At no point.
Did they significantly.
Threaten the ‘elves’
3rd Assault Brigade’s positions.
The ‘orcs’ are going.
For broke.
— and accepting.
Massive casualties.
Daily tallies of.
Dead and wounded.
‘Orcs’ now routinely.
Exceed 1,500.
Total ‘orcs’ casualties.
After 33 months of.
Wider warfare in Ukraine.
Are somewhere.
Between 600,000.
And 730,000.
Many of the deaths.
Are the unavoidable price.
Exposed attackers.
Almost always suffer.
Greater casualties.
Than dug-in defenders.
But other losses.
Are preventable.
Consider that.
The ‘orcs’ assault group.
That tried to.
Make it out.
Of Novovodyane.
On 21 November.
Apparently didn’t.
Benefit from.
Significant artillery.
Or air support.
It didn’t even.
Bother popping.
Obscuring smoke.
As it advanced.
— a simple but effective.
Defense against drones.
— a simple but effective.
Defense against drones.
Dead infantry littered.
The road and fields.
The luckiest ‘orcs’.
Made it just.
A thousand feet.
From their apparent.
Start point.
In Novovodyane.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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‘Comprehensive Neglect’ Just Got Lots Of Russian Infantry Killed
No.22
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS SPEAKING IN LOTAREVKA
‘Mordor’ has made.
A rare admission.
Saying that a key.
Air defence system.
Saying that a key.
Air defence system.
And an air base.
In the Kursk region.
Were hit by Ukraine.
With US-supplied.
Atacms missiles.
Atacms missiles.
But Monday's strike.
On an S-400 air-defence.
Missile battalion.
At Lotarevka.
Northwest of Kursk.
On Saturday.
Could be seen.
As more serious.
The defence ministry statement.
Which threatened retaliation.
Came a day after.
Ukraine said.
It had hit targets.
In the region.
It had hit targets.
In the region.
Meanwhile ‘elves’ air force.
Said ‘orcs’ launched.
A record 188 drones.
In a single attack.
On Monday night.
Damaging critical infrastructure.
A record 188 drones.
In a single attack.
But Monday's strike.
On an S-400 air-defence.
Missile battalion.
At Lotarevka.
Northwest of Kursk.
On Saturday.
Could be seen.
As more serious.
Tensions have been high.
Since the US reportedly.
Allowed Ukraine to use.
Atacms missiles.
On targets inside ‘Mordor’.
Last week.
In response to ‘Mordor’.
Deploying North Korean troops.
The week culminated.
With ‘orcs’ use of.
The powerful new intermediate-range.
Oreshnik ballistic missile.
The powerful new intermediate-range.
Oreshnik ballistic missile.
On the ‘elves’ city.
Of Dnipro.
But Monday's strike.
On an S-400 air-defence.
Missile battalion.
At Lotarevka.
Northwest of Kursk.
On Saturday.
Could be seen.
As more serious.
The first reported strikes.
By Atacms on ‘orcs’ territory.
Were reported.
On Tuesday.
When ‘Mordor’ said.
Falling fragments caused.
A fire.
At a military facility.
But Monday's strike.
On an S-400 air-defence.
Missile battalion.
At Lotarevka.
Northwest of Kursk.
On Saturday.
Could be seen.
As more serious.
The S-400 is considered.
The closest ‘orcs’ equivalent.
Of the US Patriot.
Missile system.
The Defence Ministry said.
Three of the five Atacms missiles.
Were shot down.
But two reached the target.
Damaging a radar system.
And causing casualties.
Damaging a radar system.
And causing casualties.
But Monday's strike.
On an S-400 air-defence.
Missile battalion.
At Lotarevka.
Northwest of Kursk.
On Saturday.
Could be seen.
As more serious.
It also said.
A second strike.
On Monday.
On the Khalino air base.
Caused “insignificant damage”.
After one of the eight missiles.
Fired by Ukraine.
Got through air defences.
It shared photos.
Of what it said.
Was debris from.
The air base attack.
But Monday's strike.
On an S-400 air-defence.
Missile battalion.
At Lotarevka.
Northwest of Kursk.
On Saturday.
Could be seen.
As more serious.
‘Mordor’ has made.
A rare admission.
Saying that a key.
Air defence system.
Saying that a key.
Air defence system.
And an air base.
In the Kursk region.
Were hit by Ukraine.
With US-supplied.
Atacms missiles.
Atacms missiles.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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Key Russian air defence system hit in Ukraine Atacms strike
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"Aware of a poet?
A poet of Cossack broods over the land.
Not noting a bullet.
Not noting a bullet.
You see a poet of Cossack in Borodyanka."
(Kurama)
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"Коли закінчиться війна,Я хочу тата обійняти,
Сказати сонячні слова
І повести його до хати,
Ти – наш Герой! Тепер щодня
Я буду дякувати Богу
За мирне небо, за життя,
Всім, хто здобув нам ПЕРЕМОГУ!"
Думки українських поетів про рідну країну, їхні відчуття до української землі і нашого народу — все це юні читачі зможуть знайти в представленій добірці віршів про Україну від Ганни Черінь, Юрка Шкрумеляка, Наталки Талиманчук, Іванни Савицької, Уляни Кравченко, Яни Яковенко, Василя Симоненка, Івана Франка, Володимира Сосюри, Катерини Перелісної, Богдана-Ігоря Антонича, Марійки Підгірянки, Миколи Чернявського, Володимира Сіренка, Іванни Блажкевич, Грицька Бойка, Миколи Вінграновського, Платона Воронька, Наталі Забіли, Анатолія Камінчука, Анатолія Качана, Володимира Коломійця, Тамари Коломієць, Ліни Костенко, Андрія Малишка, Андрія М’ястківського, Івана Неходи, Бориса Олійника, Дмитра Павличка, Максима Рильського, Вадима Скомаровського, Сосюра Володимир, Павла Тичини, Петра Осадчука, Варвари Гринько та інших відомих українських поетів.
Дуже корисними для вивчення іноземних мов є саме вірші, пісні, казки, римівки, а також ігри. Природнім шляхом діти розвивають слух, навчаються вимові, інтонації та наголосу; вивчають слова та мовні структури. Пісні та римівки чудово сприймаються дітьми, малята люблять усе ритмічне та музичне, вони засвоюють це легко та швидко, тому що дістають від цього задоволення.