«My poems is my fight to show what I can do for Ukraine and the world now by Koryu,
like Javelin or Bayraktar.
To stand on the frontline of culture is my great honor, dear my Ukrainian friends!»
(Kurama, Japan)
Kurama
(Japan)
A POET AT SUNSET
Blazing flames on the edge.
Without an alert.
The sun keeps going.
The sun of Kyiv is going.
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Kurama
(Japan)
I got a message from my friend H. from frontline in Ukraine on New Year's Day and I wrote this rhymes...
A POET GREETING
Going up to the roof.
Looking up to the sky.
Anyone knows nothing.
About what is going on.
Looking over the city.
Looking forward to see you.
One thing is certain.
I am here.
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On this video: Pokrovsk is the city that gave the world “Carol of the Bells.” It is here that Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych created “Shchedryk,” which would later be known in English as “Carol of the Bells.” Now, Russia is trying to destroy the city.
No.3
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS IN A BIRTHPLACE
But there are few.
Signs of Christmas.
In the city.
This year.
Most of Pokrovsk's population.
Has already fled.
The gas supply's.
Been turned off.
And many homes.
Are without.
Electricity.
And water.
Those who remain.
Like a 59-year-old.
Only break cover to.
Find the bare essentials.
He says it's like.
Living on a powder keg.
— you never know when or where.
The next shell will land.
But there are few.
Signs of Christmas.
In the city.
This year.
A woman, 43, says.
She's too frightened.
To leave her home.
But goes out.
During a lull.
In the shelling.
To find wood and coal.
To keep warm.
She hopes ‘elves’.
Armed forces can.
Hold on to the city.
But she thinks.
But she thinks.
That's unlikely.
Pokrovsk, she says.
Will probably fall.
But there are few.
Signs of Christmas.
In the city.
This year.
Just a dusting of snow.
On deserted streets.
And skeletal buildings.
— and the constant sound.
— and the constant sound.
Of heavy shelling.
Pokrovsk is.
‘Mordor’’s next target.
‘Orcs’ troops are now.
Less than two miles.
From the city centre.
And it's not just.
And it's not just.
Buildings and homes.
That are being destroyed.
Ukraine accuses ‘Mordor’.
Of trying to erase.
Its cultural identity too.
– including its associations.
With that well-known carol.
But there are few.
Signs of Christmas.
In the city.
This year.
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The famous Christmas carol inspiring Ukraine's defenders
On this video: «Carol of the Bells» – Art That Became Weapon.
No.3
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS IN TUNE
The statue of Pokrovsk’s.
Famous composer.
Mykola Leontovych.
Has already been removed.
The music school.
That bore his name.
Now lies boarded up.
And empty.
Leontovych may not be.
Well known in the West.
But the tune.
He composed is familiar.
But the tune.
He composed is familiar.
Around the world.
- with its chime-like vocals.
In Ukraine.
It's known as Shchedryk.
To most of the world it became.
Known as the Carol of the Bells.
It's thought that.
Leontovych wrote.
The early scores.
Of the composition.
Based on an ‘elves’ folk chant.
While he was living.
And working in Pokrovsk.
Between 1904 and 1908.
In Ukraine.
It's known as Shchedryk.
To most of the world it became.
Known as the Carol of the Bells.
She calls it.
“A masterpiece.
- the signature song.
Of Pokrovsk”.
She too was until recently.
Teaching music in the city.
In the school that.
Bore Leontovych's name.
She's now moved to.
The relative safety of Dnipro.
It's where many of.
Pokrovsk's former residents are.
Still trying to.
Keep the memories.
Of their former.
Home alive.
In Ukraine.
It's known as Shchedryk.
To most of the world it became.
Known as the Carol of the Bells.
Beneath a salvaged portrait.
Of Leontovych.
She watches.
As a 13-year-old girl strikes.
The familiar chords of.
The carol on a piano.
The girl’s family fled.
Pokrovsk this summer.
But they're determined.
Not to forget.
The place.
They still call home.
In Ukraine.
It's known as Shchedryk.
To most of the world it became.
Known as the Carol of the Bells.
The girl’s mother says.
She's glad to see.
Her daughters.
Practising Shchedryk.
“We won't forget.
The history of our town.”
“We won't forget.
The history of our town.”
In Ukraine.
It's known as Shchedryk.
To most of the world it became.
Known as the Carol of the Bells.
For the girl.
The tune brings back memories.
“When I played it at home.
It seemed happy.”
“It reminded me of.
Winter and Christmas.
Now it's more of.
A sad song to me.”
“Because it reminds me.
Of home.
And I really want.
To go back.”
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The famous Christmas carol inspiring Ukraine's defenders
On this video: First Recording of Schedryk «Carol of the Bells» 1922.
No.5
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS INSPIRED
For one ‘elves’ military band.
Shchedryk has become.
A song.
To inspire resistance.
They're even playing.
It in the trenches.
– using weapons.
As improvised instruments.
They may be musicians.
But their commander.
Reminds you that.
They're soldiers first.
They're soldiers first.
All have spent time.
On the front line.
On the front line.
For one ‘elves’ military band.
Shchedryk has become.
A song.
To inspire resistance.
They're even playing.
It in the trenches.
– using weapons.
As improvised instruments.
Colonel, the head of.
The band and its conductor.
Says the song helps.
Lifts soldiers spirits.
“Those beats and rhythms.
Cheer up the guys.
On the front line and.
Inspire them to fight.”
For one ‘elves’ military band.
Shchedryk has become.
A song.
To inspire resistance.
They're even playing.
It in the trenches.
– using weapons.
As improvised instruments.
A 22-year-old uses.
A rocket launcher casing.
Filled with rice.
To shake vigorously.
In time.
With the music.
Shchedryk, he says, is.
The “pride of our country.”
For one ‘elves’ military band.
Shchedryk has become.
A song.
To inspire resistance.
They're even playing.
It in the trenches.
– using weapons.
As improvised instruments.
Shchedryk, he says, is.
The “pride of our country.
It's freedom.
It's in our souls.”
“I get goosebumps.
From this song”.
“I get goosebumps.
From this song”.
For one ‘elves’ military band.
Shchedryk has become.
A song.
To inspire resistance.
They're even playing.
It in the trenches.
– using weapons.
As improvised instruments.
Colonel says.
Shchedryk shows.
That Ukraine is.
A civilised nation.
That Ukraine is.
A civilised nation.
Now at war.
Fighting for its identity.
For one ‘elves’ military band.
Shchedryk has become.
A song.
To inspire resistance.
They're even playing.
It in the trenches.
– using weapons.
As improvised instruments.
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The famous Christmas carol inspiring Ukraine's defenders
On this video: Ukrainian military band use weapons to play Christmas carols | BBC News.
No.6
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS WINNING
It's hard to say.
You're winning.
When your city's.
Being destroyed.
But its people.
Like Leontovych's music.
Are displaying.
Extraordinary resilience.
The director of.
Pokrovsk's History Museum.
Has already salvaged.
And transferred.
Most of its prized possessions.
To safety.
– including artefacts from.
Leontovych's life in Pokrovsk.
‘Mordor’, she says.
Doesn't just want to.
Take ‘elves’ territory.
– “It wants to destroy.”
– “It wants to destroy.
Our culture.
And everything.
Precious to us”.
It's hard to say.
You're winning.
When your city's.
Being destroyed.
But its people.
Like Leontovych's music.
Are displaying.
Extraordinary resilience.
She says the people.
Of Pokrovsk understand.
They may never.
Go back.
“But our heart and souls.
Do not accept that”.
Hence they're doing everything.
They can to preserve the past.
The new motto is.
“Keeping and saving.
Equals winning”.
“Keeping and saving”.
It's hard to say.
You're winning.
When your city's.
Being destroyed.
But its people.
Like Leontovych's music.
Are displaying.
Extraordinary resilience.
Leontovych's life came to.
An abrupt end in 1921.
When he was shot.
By a Soviet agent.
His composition had become.
A symbol for the fight.
For ‘elves’ independence.
It still is.
It's hard to say.
You're winning.
When your city's.
Being destroyed.
But its people.
Like Leontovych's music.
Are displaying.
Extraordinary resilience.
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The famous Christmas carol inspiring Ukraine's defenders
On this video: Ukraine War: Full Ukrainian "shchedryk" (Carol of the Bells) Set to emotional scenes before and now.
No.7
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS ON CHRISTMAS DAY
‘Gandalf the Green’ says.
‘Mordor’ made.
A “conscious choice”.
By launching.
A major overnight attack.
On his country's.
Energy infrastructure.
On Christmas Day.
This is the second time.
Ukraine has celebrated.
Christmas Day.
On 25 December.
‘Elves’ air force said.
It had detected.
184 missiles.
And drones.
But many were shot down.
Or missed their targets.
There were casualties.
From the strikes.
This is the second time.
Ukraine has celebrated.
Christmas Day.
On 25 December.
The attack led to.
Power cuts across the country.
Including in.
The capital Kyiv.
Where some residents.
Sheltered in metro stations.
This was the 13th major attack.
On ‘elves’ energy sector this year.
This is the second time.
Ukraine has celebrated.
Christmas Day.
On 25 December.
‘Gandalf the Green’ called.
Wednesday's attacks.
“Inhumane” and said.
Work was being done.
To restore power.
As soon as possible.
“‘Orcs’ evil will not.
Break Ukraine.”
“‘Orcs’ evil will not.
Break Ukraine.
And will not distort.
Christmas”, he added.
This is the second time.
Ukraine has celebrated.
Christmas Day.
On 25 December.
In the north-eastern city.
Of Kharkiv.
- Ukraine's second largest –
The attack left.
Half a million people.
Without water, electricity.
Or heating in bitterly.
Cold temperatures.
Damage was recorded.
To 74 buildings.
In Kharkiv.
The city's mayor said
This is the second time.
Ukraine has celebrated.
Christmas Day.
On 25 December.
‘Elves’ across the country.
Woke up to the sound.
Of air raid alarms.
And were told to shelter.
As the attacks unfolded.
In the morning.
Kyiv residents sheltered.
In metro stations.
This is the second time.
Ukraine has celebrated.
Christmas Day.
On 25 December.
One local felt.
Angry and frightened.
“Of course, I want.
To be at home.”
“And celebrate.
But we had to shelter.
Because it's scary.
To stay at home.”
This is the second time.
Ukraine has celebrated.
Christmas Day.
On 25 December.
Another Kyiv resident.
Said that despite the attack.
“Christmas is not cancelled”.
“Christmas is not cancelled”.
She planned to enjoy.
Traditional ‘elves’ food and drink.
With family and friends.
After it is safe to leave the shelter.
This is the second time.
Ukraine has celebrated.
Christmas Day.
On 25 December.
It traditionally followed.
The Julian calendar.
Like ‘Mordor’, where.
Christmas falls on 7 January.
Still, a sizeable number.
Of Orthodox believers.
In the country will be.
Celebrating Christmas as before.
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Ukraine: Zelensky condemns "inhumane" Russia Christmas Day attack
On this video: Ukraine's President Zelensky condemns russia's 'inhumane' Christmas Day attack.
No.8
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS BEFORE A STORM
Christmas in Pokrovsk.
Was eerie.
A transportation hub.
In eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
Pokrovsk had.
60,000 residents.
Before ‘Mordor’ widened.
Its war on Ukraine.
In February 2022.
Now very few people.
Remain who aren’t wearing.
‘Elves’ army uniforms.
“There is an unpleasant silence.
In the city ...
The calm before.
The storm.”
A volunteer said.
On the day.
After the holiday.
The storm has a name:
The ‘orcs’ army’s.
90th Guards Tank Division.
The anchor of.
A powerful ground force.
Made up of dozens of.
Brigades and regiments.
In two field armies:
Perhaps 70,000 troops in all.
Christmas in Pokrovsk.
Was eerie.
A transportation hub.
In eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
This force is bearing down.
On Pokrovsk.
Aiming to capture.
The city.
Around the start.
Of the fourth year.
Of the fourth year.
Of the wider war.
The ‘elves’ garrison.
In and around Pokrovsk.
Is much smaller:
Perhaps fewer than.
A dozen brigades.
Each with no more than.
2,000 troops.
But it’s getting some critical help.
Christmas in Pokrovsk.
Was eerie.
A transportation hub.
In eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
There’s evidence.
One of ‘elves’ newest units.
The 155th Mechanized Brigade.
Has begun deploying.
Near the city with its.
German-designed Leopard 2 tanks.
And French-made.
Caesar howitzers.
The brigade had been.
Training in France.
And Poland.
Until recently.
Christmas in Pokrovsk.
Was eerie.
A transportation hub.
In eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
The ‘orcs’ are beginning.
To move on Pokrovsk.
The closest ‘orcs’ units are.
Just four miles from the city.
And all up and down.
And all up and down.
The 800-mile front line.
In western ‘Mordor’.
And northern.
Eastern and.
Southern Ukraine.
‘Orcs’ troops are attacking.
In Kursk Oblast.
In western ‘Mordor’.
The attacks have.
Their own purpose.
Elsewhere, they may be.
Tangentially related.
To the coming battle.
For Pokrovsk.
Christmas in Pokrovsk.
Was eerie.
A transportation hub.
In eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
‘Orcs’ units south of Pokrovsk.
Are pushing forward.
In order to form.
A defensive line south of the city.
The new defenses could keep.
‘Elves’ units farther to the south.
From reinforcing Pokrovsk.
Or lifting a siege of the city.
The ‘elves’ may try to.
Counter that move.
By pulling back a handful.
Of brigades and battalions.
— the Donetsk Operational Tactical Group —
Currently holding onto.
A five-mile-by-five-mile salient.
Jutting into ‘orcs’-occupied territory.
Beyond the newly forming.
‘Orcs’ line south of Pokrovsk.
“A withdrawal of.
The Donetsk OTG.”
“A withdrawal of.
The Donetsk OTG.
… is expected,” was noted.
“The length of the line.”
“Of contact will be reduced.
Thereby tightening.
The combat formations of.
The operational-tactical group.”
Christmas in Pokrovsk.
Was eerie.
A transportation hub.
In eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
After that expected maneuver.
There might be just.
One more major move.
— a short ‘orcs’ advance.
— a short ‘orcs’ advance.
North of Pokrovsk.
Meant to complete.
A partial encirclement of the city —
Before the main fighting.
Over the transportation hub.
Finally begins.
Finally begins.
By then.
The 155th Mechanized Brigade.
Should be fully deployed.
In Pokrovsk.
The 155th Mechanized Brigade.
With its German tanks.
French howitzers and.
2,000 fresh soldiers.
Whether they will be enough.
To hold the city is.
One of the critical questions.
Of this phase of the wider war.
Which so far has killed.
And maimed more than.
A million people.
— most of them ‘orcs’.
Christmas in Pokrovsk.
Was eerie.
A transportation hub.
In eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
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No.9
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS IN A FREEZING FIELD
The Black Pack.
A mortar unit is.
Trying to prevent.
Their encirclement.
Around Kurakhove.
The ‘orcs’ are.
Closing in.
On three sides.
They include a vegan chef.
A mechanic.
A web developer.
And an artist.
A group of friends.
With non-conformist views.
Some call themselves anarchists.
They all volunteered to fight.
Their 31-year-old commander.
Joined the army.
Soon after ‘orcs’.
Full scale invasion.
At the start.
He thought.
The war would last.
Three years.
Now he's mentally.
Preparing himself.
For another ten years.
Of fighting.
The Black Pack.
A mortar unit is.
Trying to prevent.
Their encirclement.
Around Kurakhove.
The ‘orcs’ are.
Closing in.
On three sides.
They all know that.
The US President-elect.
Wants to bring.
An end to the war.
‘Gandalf the Green’.
And ‘the One’.
Have indicated.
They're prepared.
For talks too.
But the idea of.
Workable deal seems.
Hard to imagine.
So far, it is just.
Talk about talks.
The commander is not.
Dismissive of the man’s goal.
“He is quite.
An ambitious person.
And I think he will.
Try to do it.”
But he worries.
About the outcome.
Of any negotiations.
“We are realists.”
“We understand.
There will be no justice.
For Ukraine.
– many will have to.”
“Swallow the fact.
That their homes.
Are destroyed.
By rockets and shells.”
“Swallow the fact.
That their loved ones.
Were killed.
And this will be hard.”
Whether he'd prefer to.
Negotiate or to keep on fighting?
– he replies emphatically:
“Keep fighting.”
The Black Pack.
A mortar unit is.
Trying to prevent.
Their encirclement.
Around Kurakhove.
The ‘orcs’ are.
Closing in.
On three sides.
It's a view reflected.
By most of the unit.
The vegan chef believes.
Negotiations would.
Just temporarily.
Freeze the war.
– “and the conflict will.
Return in a year or two.”
He admits.
The current situation.
Is “not good”.
For Ukraine.
But he too is ready.
To carry on fighting.
Being killed, he says.
“Is just an occupational hazard.”
The Black Pack.
A mortar unit is.
Trying to prevent.
Their encirclement.
Around Kurakhove.
The ‘orcs’ are.
Closing in.
On three sides.
The artist thinks.
The US President-elect is.
Worryingly unpredictable.
“He could be either.”
“Very good or.
Very bad for Ukraine.”
“Very good or.
Very bad for Ukraine.”
The unit spends.
A week on the front.
And the next resting.
But even when.
They're resting.
They continue to train.
Because, they say.
It keeps them motivated.
In a freezing field.
They go through.
The drills for firing.
Their mortars.
The Black Pack.
A mortar unit is.
Trying to prevent.
Their encirclement.
Around Kurakhove.
The ‘orcs’ are.
Closing in.
On three sides.
The team have recently been.
Joined by another friend.
Who voluntarily left.
The safety.
Who voluntarily left.
The safety.
Of his home.
In Germany.
“I asked myself.
The question.
— could I live in a world?
Where Ukraine doesn't exist?”
He reluctantly admits.
It now appears.
To be losing.
But adds:
“If you don't try.
Then you will.
Most certainly lose.
At least I'll die.”
“Trying to win.
Instead of just.
Lying down and.
Taking it”.
The Black Pack.
A mortar unit is.
Trying to prevent.
Their encirclement.
Around Kurakhove.
The ‘orcs’ are.
Closing in.
On three sides.
But, unlike the others.
He thinks Ukraine should.
At least consider.
A ceasefire.
He thinks.
‘Elves’ casualties are.
Higher than those.
Officially admitted.
– more than 400,000.
Killed and injured.
– more than 400,000.
Killed and injured.
Mobilising more.
Of the population.
He believes, wouldn't.
Solve the problem.
“I just think.
A lot of.
The motivated soldiers.
Are either lost or.”
“They're pretty damn exhausted.
– and so for me.
It's not that.
We want a ceasefire.”
“It's not that.
We want a ceasefire.
But we can't go on.
For many more years.”
The Black Pack.
A mortar unit is.
Trying to prevent.
Their encirclement.
Around Kurakhove.
The ‘orcs’ are.
Closing in.
On three sides.
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No.10
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS IN AN AUDIENCE
Dnipro, Ukraine's.
Third largest city.
Reflects that sense of.
War weariness too.
At an afternoon performance.
Of a humorous play.
There are still reminders.
Of the war.
– a minute's silence.
To remember the fallen.
Followed by ‘elves’.
National anthem.
But some in the audience.
Admit they're.
Also hoping for.
A longer-lasting release.
Dnipro, Ukraine's.
Third largest city.
Reflects that sense of.
War weariness too.
A woman says “unfortunately.
There are fewer of us.
We're getting some help.
But it's not enough.”
“We're getting some help.
But it's not enough.
— that's why we have to.
Sit down and negotiate.”
The other says:
“There's no easy answer.
A lot of our soldiers.
Have been killed.”
“They fought for something.
— for our territories.
But I want the war.
To end”.
Dnipro, Ukraine's.
Third largest city.
Reflects that sense of.
War weariness too.
It's regularly targeted.
By ‘orcs’ missiles and drones.
The air-raid sirens wail.
Intermittently, day and night.
When they're silent.
‘Elves’ try to find.
Some sense of normality.
In these abnormal times.
Some sense of normality.
In these abnormal times.
– including by going.
To the theatre.
Dnipro, Ukraine's.
Third largest city.
Reflects that sense of.
War weariness too.
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No.11
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS REMINISCING
The show must go on.
In Dnipro.
In a shelter near the theatre.
In former student accommodation.
A group of.
Four elderly women.
Reminisce about the homes.
They've left behind.
The eighty-seven-year-old.
Says they arrived.
With nothing.
But have been provided.
With shoes.
Clothes and food.
She says they've been.
Treated well.
“It's good to be a guest.
But its better to be at home.”
“It's good to be a guest.
But its better to be at home.”
Her home is now.
In ‘orcs’-occupied territory.
All four women want.
Negotiations for peace.
The show must go on.
In Dnipro.
In a shelter near the theatre.
In former student accommodation.
A group of.
Four elderly women.
Reminisce about the homes.
They've left behind.
But she, 89, says.
She doesn't know.
How either side.
Will be able to.
“Look into the eyes.
Of each other.
After the sheer hell.
They've committed”.
She adds:
“It's already clear.
No one will win militarily.
That is why we need negotiations.”
The show must go on.
In Dnipro.
In a shelter near the theatre.
In former student accommodation.
A group of.
Four elderly women.
Reminisce about the homes.
They've left behind.
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No.12
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS EXCHANGED
Freed ‘elves’ were reunited.
With their loved ones.
At a location.
In northern Ukraine.
‘Mordor’ and Ukraine.
Have exchanged.
Hundreds of prisoners of war.
In a deal brokered by.
The United Arab Emirates.
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
189 ‘elves’.
Had returned home.
Freed ‘elves’ were reunited.
With their loved ones.
At a location.
In northern Ukraine.
He added that.
Those released included.
“Defenders of.
Azovstal and Mariupol”.
“Defenders of.
Azovstal and Mariupol”.
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
And Zmiinyi Island.
Freed ‘elves’ were reunited.
With their loved ones.
At a location.
In northern Ukraine.
Before they arrived.
A woman.
Who was waiting for.
Her husband.
— captured while defending.
The south-eastern city.
Of Mariupol.
In 2022 –
Before they arrived.
She had tears.
Streaming down.
Her face.
“I have so many emotions.
It's been so difficult.
I just want to see him.”
“I just want to see him.”
Freed ‘elves’ were reunited.
With their loved ones.
At a location.
In northern Ukraine.
A released prisoner.
Who was captured.
In the south-eastern city.
Of Mariupol.
In 2022.
Said that he was.
“Overwhelmed by feelings”.
“Thank God this day has come.”
“We're home.
Now we're going to.
Support Ukraine.
With everything we've got.”
Freed ‘elves’ were reunited.
With their loved ones.
At a location.
In northern Ukraine.
Another released prisoner said:
“I'm very happy to return.
To my own country.
To my own land.”
“To my own country.
To my own land.
I have no words to say.
What I feel now.”
Freed ‘elves’ were reunited.
With their loved ones.
At a location.
In northern Ukraine.
This was the 59th.
Prisoner exchange since.
The full-scale invasion began.
And one of the biggest so far.
On the ‘elves’ side.
Those released.
Included soldiers.
Border guards.
National Guardsmen.
And Navy servicemen.
Many had been in captivity.
For more than.
Two-and-a-half years.
And some had returned.
With serious illnesses.
And injuries.
Freed ‘elves’ were reunited.
With their loved ones.
At a location.
In northern Ukraine.
For some families.
The agonising uncertainty.
Has come to.
An end.
But thousands more ‘elves’.
Remain in captivity.
In ‘Mordor’ and.
Occupied parts of Ukraine.
Officials in Kyiv said.
That negotiations about.
Prisoner exchanges have become.
More difficult in recent months.
— ever since ‘orcs’ forces.
Began to make.
Significant advances.
On the battlefield.
Freed ‘elves’ were reunited.
With their loved ones.
At a location.
In northern Ukraine.
Commander of ‘elves’.
12th Special Forces Azov Brigade.
That defended Mariupol's.
Azovstal steel plant.
Before it was captured.
By ‘orcs’ forces, said that.
11 of the brigade's men.
Were returned in the swap.
He himself.
Was released.
In a prisoner swap.
In 2022.
Freed ‘elves’ were reunited.
With their loved ones.
At a location.
In northern Ukraine.
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
Two civilians captured.
In Mariupol were also.
Among those released.
“We are working.
To free everyone.
From ‘orcs’ captivity.
This is our goal.”
“We do not forget anyone.”
He posted photos.
Showing some of.
The swapped men.
Sitting on a coach.
Holding up.
Yellow-and-blue.
‘Elves’ flags.
Freed ‘elves’ were reunited.
With their loved ones.
At a location.
In northern Ukraine.
In May 2022.
‘Mordor’ declared victory.
After a months-long battle.
To conquer.
The south-eastern ‘elves’ port city.
Of Mariupol with the last fighters.
Defending the Azovstal steel plant.
Having surrendered.
Freed ‘elves’ were reunited.
With their loved ones.
At a location.
In northern Ukraine.
‘Orcs’ troops seized Chernobyl.
In the country's north-west.
At the beginning of.
Their invasion of Ukraine.
In February 2022.
But later handed back.
Control of the plant.
To its employees.
Freed ‘elves’ were reunited.
With their loved ones.
At a location.
In northern Ukraine.
Zmiinyi Island.
In the Black Sea.
Was also seized.
In 2022.
And the ‘elves’ soldiers.
Were taken prisoner.
But later exchanged.
For ‘orcs’ captives.
Freed ‘elves’ were reunited.
With their loved ones.
At a location.
In northern Ukraine.
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No.13
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS MOUNTING
Small drones are everywhere.
All the time all along the 800-mile.
front line of ‘Mordor’’s.
34-month wider war on Ukraine.
They surveil for enemy movements.
Feed target coordinates to.
Artillery and warplanes.
Drop supplies, mines and bombs.
And, in the case of.
Explosive first-person-view drones.
Ram themselves into.
Enemy troops and vehicles.
With ‘Mordor’ and Ukraine.
Each producing around.
100,000 small drones.
A month.
“THE ‘ELVES’ DRONE HAS.
TWO SHOTGUNS.”
“THE ‘ELVES’ DRONE HAS.
TWO SHOTGUNS.”
Defeating these drones.
Is an urgent priority.
For both sides.
Radio jammers can ground them.
Screens and netting.
Mounted on vehicles.
Can catch them.
Before they explode.
Shotgun-armed soldiers.
Can blast them.
From the sky.
From the sky.
“THE ‘ELVES’ DRONE HAS.
TWO SHOTGUNS.”
“THE ‘ELVES’ DRONE HAS.
TWO SHOTGUNS.”
More and more.
The ‘elves’ are going after.
‘Orcs’ drones with.
Drones of their own.
We’ve seen ‘elves’ drones.
Ram ‘orcs’ drones in mid-air.
— or drop nets on them.
From above.
The latest counter-drone.
Innovation might be.
The most impressive.
To quote one analyst.
“THE ‘ELVES’ DRONE HAS.
TWO SHOTGUNS.”
“THE ‘ELVES’ DRONE HAS.
TWO SHOTGUNS.”
‘Orcs’ and ‘elves’.
Technicians have been.
Fitting guns to drones.
For a while now.
But the dual shotgun armament.
But the dual shotgun armament.
Seems to be.
A new development.
One organization has been.
Raising funds to buy.
More “Winchester” drones.
For ‘elves’ brigades.
“THE ‘ELVES’ DRONE HAS.
TWO SHOTGUNS.”
“THE ‘ELVES’ DRONE HAS.
TWO SHOTGUNS.”
The design makes sense.
Shotgun pellets lack.
The stopping power of.
Say, a rifle round.
But drones tend to be.
Flimsy — and nimble.
But drones tend to be.
Flimsy — and nimble.
The wide spread.
Of a shotgun blast.
Increases the chance.
Of a hit.
And it might take.
Just a few pellets to.
Catastrophically.
Damage a drone.
“THE ‘ELVES’ DRONE HAS.
TWO SHOTGUNS.”
“THE ‘ELVES’ DRONE HAS.
TWO SHOTGUNS.”
‘Elves’ and ‘orcs’.
Infantry platoons increasingly.
March into battle with at least.
One shotgun at the ready.
When government-issued.
Shotguns are in short supply.
Some troops beg for supporters.
Back home to send civilian models.
“Please help us with.
Pump-action shotguns.”
One shell-shocked.
‘Orc’ soldier said.
In a video message.
To his friends and family.
Back in the spring.
“Any shit will do.”
“THE ‘ELVES’ DRONE HAS.
TWO SHOTGUNS.”
“THE ‘ELVES’ DRONE HAS.
TWO SHOTGUNS.”
The problem for.
The drone-harried infantry.
Is proximity.
Even when they’re adequately.
Armed with shotguns.
They might have mere seconds.
After spotting an incoming drone.
To take aim and shoot it down.
By mounting twin.
Shotguns to drones.
The ‘elves’ can hunt down.
‘Orcs’ drones in mid-air.
— long before they pose.
Any danger to troops.
On the ground.
On the ground.
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No.14
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS ENTERPRISING
Seven months ago.
Enterprising ‘elves’ engineers.
Kluged together.
A combination.
Of sensors and infrared-guided.
R-73 air-to-air missiles.
Borrowed from.
The ‘elves’ air force.
And mounted the resulting system.
On some of the ‘elves’.
Intelligence directorate’s.
Magura V5 drone attack boats.
Sometime in recent days.
One of the 18-foot.
Magura V5s.
Got into a fight.
With a gun-armed ‘orcs’.
Mil Mi-8 helicopter.
— and shot down.
The Mi-8.
It was the first aerial kill.
By an unmanned surface vehicle.
And a harbinger of.
A new era in naval warfare.
“Historic strike.”
The intelligence directorate crowed.
As it released footage.
Of the engagement.
Sometime in recent days.
One of the 18-foot.
Magura V5s.
Got into a fight.
With a gun-armed ‘orcs’.
Mil Mi-8 helicopter.
— and shot down.
The Mi-8.
‘Elves’ single-use drone boats.
— the Magura V5s.
And similar Sea Babies —
Have wreaked havoc.
On the battered ‘orcs’.
Black Sea Fleet this year.
In separate raids.
On Crimean anchorages.
In February.
May and June.
The explosives-laden.
USVs sank.
A corvette.
A landing ship.
A patrol boat.
And a tugboat.
Sometime in recent days.
One of the 18-foot.
Magura V5s.
Got into a fight.
With a gun-armed ‘orcs’.
Mil Mi-8 helicopter.
— and shot down.
The Mi-8.
After those sinkings.
The Black Sea Fleet was.
Down to no more than.
Two-thirds of its pre-war strength.
Determined to protect.
What’s left of the fleet.
What’s left of the fleet.
The ‘orcs’ navy stiffened.
The defenses.
Around naval bases.
In Crimea and.
Southern ‘Mordor’.
Sometime in recent days.
One of the 18-foot.
Magura V5s.
Got into a fight.
With a gun-armed ‘orcs’.
Mil Mi-8 helicopter.
— and shot down.
The Mi-8.
The approaches.
To these bases.
Are now patrolled.
By helicopters and.
Raptor patrol boats.
Among other assets.
The approaches.
To these bases.
Sometime in recent days.
One of the 18-foot.
Magura V5s.
Got into a fight.
With a gun-armed ‘orcs’.
Mil Mi-8 helicopter.
— and shot down.
The Mi-8.
To give the satellite-guided.
Sea Babies and.
Magura V5s.
A fighting chance.
Against these defenses.
The ‘elves’ began upgrading.
Their USVs.
Back in the spring.
Some got remotely.
Operated turrets for.
Heavy machine guns.
Others got the R-73 treatment.
The latter deployed.
For the first time in May.
And elicited.
A surprised reaction.
From befuddled ‘orcs’ aircrew.
“The ‘elves’ were able to somehow.
Connect the R-73 rocket with.
The USV’s telecontrol systems.”
Sometime in recent days.
One of the 18-foot.
Magura V5s.
Got into a fight.
With a gun-armed ‘orcs’.
Mil Mi-8 helicopter.
— and shot down.
The Mi-8.
Gun-armed Sea Babies.
Operated by the ‘elves’.
Federal security service.
Motored into action.
For the first time.
In early December.
— and even took.
A few potshots.
At the Mi-8s.
That rose to meet them.
Possibly damaging at least.
One of the helicopters.
There were dead.
And injured crew.
Board the helicopter.
The security service reported.
But the helicopter itself.
Survived the engagement.
But the helicopter itself.
Survived the engagement.
Sometime in recent days.
One of the 18-foot.
Magura V5s.
Got into a fight.
With a gun-armed ‘orcs’.
Mil Mi-8 helicopter.
— and shot down.
The Mi-8.
It would be another.
Three weeks before.
A Magura V brought down.
Its first airborne target.
“This is an unprecedented event.
With significant implications.
For ‘orcs’ operations.
In the Black Sea,” an analyst noted.
Sometime in recent days.
One of the 18-foot.
Magura V5s.
Got into a fight.
With a gun-armed ‘orcs’.
Mil Mi-8 helicopter.
— and shot down.
The Mi-8.
It’s also possible.
The ‘elves’ could add.
The same sensors and.
Missiles to ground robots.
“If Ukraine can replicate.
This achievement.
At a low cost using.
Unmanned ground vehicles.”
The analyst pointed out.
“It could enhance.
‘Elves’ short-range.
Air defense capabilities.”
Sometime in recent days.
One of the 18-foot.
Magura V5s.
Got into a fight.
With a gun-armed ‘orcs’.
Mil Mi-8 helicopter.
— and shot down.
The Mi-8.
Seven months ago.
Enterprising ‘elves’ engineers.
Kluged together.
A combination.
Of sensors and infrared-guided.
R-73 air-to-air missiles.
Borrowed from.
The ‘elves’ air force.
And mounted the resulting system.
On some of the ‘elves’.
Intelligence directorate’s.
Magura V5 drone attack boats.
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No.15
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS TOSSING
The ‘elves’ air force.
Doesn’t have a lot of.
Sukhoi Su-25.
Attack jets left.
But the ones it does have.
Are still in the fight.
As ‘orcs’ wider war on Ukraine.
Grinds toward its fourth year.
A recent video montage.
Capturing imagery from cameras.
Attached to the tough.
Subsonic attack jets depicts.
The Soviet-vintage planes.
Lobbing French-made.
Hammer glide bombs.
At ‘orcs’ targets.
Sukhoi pilots are never safe.
While in the air.
But they’re safer now than.
They were before.
The wide adoption of.
Glide munitions transformed.
The aging Su-25s.
Into precision bombers.
The video of the single-seat.
Su-25s in action with.
Their 550-pound winged bombs.
Comes just a few weeks.
After a similar video.
Appeared online depicting.
The ‘elves’ air force supersonic.
Sukhoi Su-27s.
Tossing American-made.
250-pound glide bombs.
In both cases.
The tactics on display are similar.
Sukhoi pilots are never safe.
While in the air.
But they’re safer now than.
They were before.
The wide adoption of.
Glide munitions transformed.
The aging Su-25s.
Into precision bombers.
The warplanes fly low and fast.
Toward the front line.
Hugging the terrain.
To avoid detection.
By ‘orcs’ air defense batteries.
At the last moment.
Before releasing their bombs.
The planes climb.
The higher angle and.
Extra altitude extend.
— by miles — the range of.
The precision-guided munitions.
Sukhoi pilots are never safe.
While in the air.
But they’re safer now than.
They were before.
The wide adoption of.
Glide munitions transformed.
The aging Su-25s.
Into precision bombers.
A Hammer can travel.
Farther than 40 miles.
Under optimal.
Launch conditions.
But the conditions.
Over Ukraine.
Are rarely optimal.
Are rarely optimal.
Even constrained by.
The low initial altitude.
The toss method helps.
Keep ‘elves’ jets outside.
The toss method helps.
Keep ‘elves’ jets outside.
The range of ‘orcs’ most dangerous.
Surface-to-air missile batteries.
Sukhoi pilots are never safe.
While in the air.
But they’re safer now than.
They were before.
The wide adoption of.
Glide munitions transformed.
The aging Su-25s.
Into precision bombers.
It’s not for no reason.
That ‘elves’ jets losses.
In the air are lower now.
Than they were early in the year.
The ‘elves’ air force went to war.
With 43 flyable Su-25s.
Got an extra 18 airframes.
From Macedonia and Bulgaria.
And lost at least 20.
Of the jets in action.
Leaving at most 41.
In service.
Sukhoi pilots are never safe.
While in the air.
But they’re safer now than.
They were before.
The wide adoption of.
Glide munitions transformed.
The aging Su-25s.
Into precision bombers.
Notably, just three or four.
Of the losses occurred last year.
It should come as no surprise that.
In 2024.
The ‘elves’ Su-25 force.
Apparently completed.
A major overhaul of its tactics.
Ending the practice of.
Close rocket attacks.
In favor of standoff bombing.
With Hammers and.
Other glide bombs.
Sukhoi pilots are never safe.
While in the air.
But they’re safer now than.
They were before.
The wide adoption of.
Glide munitions transformed.
The aging Su-25s.
Into precision bombers.
The glide bombs work so well.
That the ‘elves’ air force.
Is arming all of its.
Older warplanes with them:
Mikoyan MiG-29 fighters.
And Sukhoi Su-24 bombers.
In addition to.
The Su-25s and Su-27s.
The air force’s newer.
Western-made jets.
— Lockheed Martin F-16s and.
soon, Dassault Mirage 2000s —
The air force’s newer.
Western-made jets.
should also be compatible with.
American and French glide bombs.
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Ukraine’s Old Su-25 Attack Jets Have Become Standoff Precision Bombers
No.16
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS CALCULATING
When the North Korean.
11th Army Corps finally.
Marched into battle.
Along the edges of.
A 250-square-mile salient.
‘Elves' troops hold in western.
‘Mordor’’s Kursk Oblast.
Last weekend.
The long lines of.
North Korean infantry.
— striding across open fields.
In broad daylight —
— striding across open fields.
In broad daylight —
Ran headlong into a wall.
Of ‘elves’ firepower.
But the retreat was.
A calculated one.
But the retreat was.
A calculated one.
‘Elves’ troops “did not.
Cling to Plekhove.
At any cost, but withdrew.
North of the Psel River.”
All but one of the assaults.
Ended in bloody defeat.
Leaving as many as 200.
North Koreans.
Dead and wounded.
Out of a total.
Deployed force of.
Around 12,000.
And the assault that.
Did succeed was.
A Pyrrhic victory for.
The 11th Army Corps.
In Plekhove.
A village just south of.
The Psel River on the eastern.
Edge of the salient.
A 100-person ‘elves’ garrison.
Initially held out against.
Two waves of around.
150 North Koreans.
But the attackers.
Kept coming.
“The North Korean soldiers.
Went to the assault.”
“En masse or.
More precisely.
In a crowd.”
An ‘elf’ journalist reported.
The ‘elves’ garrison in Plekhove.
Finally retreated when.
A third wave of North Koreans.
Attacked from the east.
But the retreat was.
A calculated one.
But the retreat was.
A calculated one.
‘Elves’ troops “did not.
Cling to Plekhove.
At any cost, but withdrew.
North of the Psel River.”
This put an imposing.
Natural barrier between.
The combined.
‘Orcs’-North Korean force.
And the main.
‘Elves’ unit.
In the area.
The 61st Mechanized Brigade.
“This forces the enemy.
To cross open terrain.
To attack positions.
Whose layout is.”
“Unknown to them.
All under strikes.
From UAVs and artillery.”
Was reported.
Dug in north and west.
And west of the winding Psel.
The ‘elves’ have been firing.
With abandon.
At the North Koreans and.
‘Orcs’ who’ve been struggling.
To approach the river.
Cross it and.
Establish a bridgehead.
In the days since.
Plekhove fell to.
The North Koreans.
But the retreat was.
A calculated one.
But the retreat was.
A calculated one.
‘Elves’ troops “did not.
Cling to Plekhove.
At any cost, but withdrew.
North of the Psel River.”
“Dozens of assaults over.
The past few days.
Have ended.
At the distant approaches.”
“To ‘elves’ defenses.”
The failed attacks have added.
To ‘Mordor’ and North Korea’s.
Growing tally of losses.
In just its first weekend.
Of fighting.
The North Korean.
11th Army Corps may.
Have lost 4%.
Of its manpower.
— a rate of loss that’s unsustainable.
Over the long term.
But the retreat was.
A calculated one.
But the retreat was.
A calculated one.
‘Elves’ troops “did not.
Cling to Plekhove.
At any cost, but withdrew.
North of the Psel River.”
The problem for the ‘elves’.
Is that surrendering.
Any ground in Kursk.
Is risky.
Their salient measures.
Roughly 12 miles.
By 12 miles.
The calculated retreat.
The calculated retreat.
From Plekhove put.
A five-mile-deep dent.
In the salient.
The ‘elves’ “skillfully uses.
Terrain and.
Maneuver tactics.”
Was crowed.
But the Kursk salient.
Offers little terrain.
— and sparse space.
To maneuver.
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Under North Korean Attack, A Ukrainian Unit Turned A River Into A Wall
No.17
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS SPEAKING NEAR TOKMAK
Given good intelligence.
It’s much easier to.
Prevent an attack with.
A few precision strikes.
Than to meet it.
Soldier-for-soldier.
Tank-for-tank.
On the battlefield.
A clutch of ‘orcs’ officers.
Reportedly gathered for.
A hasty meeting.
Along a road near Tokmak.
Just 15 miles.
South of the front line.
In ‘orcs’-occupied.
Southern Ukraine on Friday.
What should have been.
A quick conference.
Between commanders.
Turned into a bloodbath.
When ‘elves’ intelligence.
Detected the gathering.
— and a HIMARS.
Opened fire.
Five vehicles burned.
And three ‘orcs’ captains died:
One each from the intelligence.
Air-defense and infantry corps.
Given good intelligence.
It’s much easier to.
Prevent an attack with.
A few precision strikes.
Than to meet it.
Soldier-for-soldier.
Tank-for-tank.
On the battlefield.
It was the second.
HIMARS strike.
In three days.
In three days.
Targeting ‘orcs’ officers.
Near the front line.
Of ‘orcs’ 34-month.
Wider war on Ukraine.
A Christmas Day bombardment.
Of a headquarters.
In the city of Lgov.
Near the ‘elves’-held salient.
In western ‘Mordor’’s Kursk Oblast.
May have killed or wounded.
Leaders of the ‘orcs’.
810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
Given good intelligence.
It’s much easier to.
Prevent an attack with.
A few precision strikes.
Than to meet it.
Soldier-for-soldier.
Tank-for-tank.
On the battlefield.
“This fiery impression.
Is part of the campaign.
To weaken the capabilities of.
The enemy army,” was boasted.
It makes sense for.
‘Elves’ U.S.-made HIMARS.
Which fire precision-guided rockets.
As far as 57 miles.
To target the 810th.
Naval Infantry Brigade.
That unit has been.
At the bleeding edge of.
‘Mordor’’s costly counteroffensive.
Aimed at eliminating.
The 250-square-mile.
‘Elves’ salient in Kursk.
It’s less obvious why.
The ‘elves’ would assign.
One of their precious HIMARS.
To blow up a trio of captains.
In Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
In southern Ukraine.
A relative backwater now that.
The fighting has shifted east and north.
Given good intelligence.
It’s much easier to.
Prevent an attack with.
A few precision strikes.
Than to meet it.
Soldier-for-soldier.
Tank-for-tank.
On the battlefield.
It’s possible.
‘Elves’ planners are trying to.
Prevent the ‘orcs’ from organizing.
An offensive in Zaporizhzhia.
That while unlikely to capture.
Much ground given.
The paucity of ‘orcs’ forces.
In the south.
Could nonetheless compel.
The ‘elves’ general staff.
To divert sparse resources.
Away from the east and north.
Given good intelligence.
It’s much easier to.
Prevent an attack with.
A few precision strikes.
Than to meet it.
Soldier-for-soldier.
Tank-for-tank.
On the battlefield.
Note the pattern of.
‘Elves’ raids in the south.
In addition to striking.
That meeting of captains.
The ‘elves’ intelligence directorate.
And special operations command.
May have sent saboteurs.
To blow up a critical railroad.
Through Tokmak on 15 December.
Reportedly destroying.
A fuel train.
In the process.
And disrupting ‘orcs’ logistics.
In the area.
By targeting critical command.
And logistical infrastructure.
‘Elves’ forces could defeat.
A possible southern offensive.
By ‘orcs’ forces.
Before it even begins.
Given good intelligence.
It’s much easier to.
Prevent an attack with.
A few precision strikes.
Than to meet it.
Soldier-for-soldier.
Tank-for-tank.
On the battlefield.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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No.18
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS TARGETING
Four months after.
Racing to Kursk Oblast.
In western ‘Mordor’.
To meet.
The surprise ‘elves’ invasion.
Of that border region.
The ‘orcs’ navy’s battered.
810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
Is finally calling.
It quits.
— at least for.
A little while.
The 2,500-person brigade.
One of at least two.
Major marine units supporting.
‘Orcs’ counteroffensive in Kursk.
Is reportedly heading.
From the western edge of.
The 250-square-mile salient.
To the quieter eastern edge.
And setting up camp.
In Plekhove.
A village a short distance.
From the front line that.
The ‘elves’ gave up.
In mid-December amid.
A costly but relentless assault by.
The North Korean 11th Army Corps.
Four months after.
Racing to Kursk Oblast.
In western ‘Mordor’.
To meet.
The surprise ‘elves’ invasion.
Of that border region.
The ‘orcs’ navy’s battered.
810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
Is finally calling.
It quits.
— at least for.
A little while.
“The guys from the 810th Brigade.
Can have a smoke break.
Think about the eternal.
Collect their thoughts.”
“And prepare for future battles.”
One ‘orc’ blogger mused.
Stressing that the redeployment.
To Plekhove is.
A temporary rotation.
Off the front line.
It’s not a retreat.
The blogger insisted.
‘Orcs’ naval infantry brigades.
“Are the main striking fist.
In the liberation.
Of the Kursk region.”
“Steel brigades.
But even they need.
A rest.”
But it’s hard to argue that.
The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
And its sister unit.
In the Kursk counteroffensive.
The 155th Naval Infantry Brigade.
Aren’t worn out.
After months of mostly failed.
Assaults on the western edge.
Of the salient.
Four months after.
Racing to Kursk Oblast.
In western ‘Mordor’.
To meet.
The surprise ‘elves’ invasion.
Of that border region.
The ‘orcs’ navy’s battered.
810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
Is finally calling.
It quits.
— at least for.
A little while.
The 155th Naval Infantry Brigade.
Has probably already.
Been destroyed and.
Rebuilt many times.
— and is currently undergoing.
Its latest replenishment.
After reportedly losing.
Many of its people.
And much of its equipment.
To ‘elves’ mines, drones and artillery.
The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
Could be in an equally dire state.
The brigade may have assigned.
Two of its 400-person battalions.
To a costly attack on the ‘elves’.
Garrison in Pogrebki.
In the no-man’s-land.
On the northwestern edge.
Of the salient.
Starting in November.
“It looks like.
Last month’s two-battalion-sized.
Assault breakthrough.
Went nowhere.”
“And was eliminated.”
An analyst noted.
Adding insult to injury.
The ‘elves’ targeted.
The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
Right before.
The purported rotation.
Off the front line.
Four months after.
Racing to Kursk Oblast.
In western ‘Mordor’.
To meet.
The surprise ‘elves’ invasion.
Of that border region.
The ‘orcs’ navy’s battered.
810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
Is finally calling.
It quits.
— at least for.
A little while.
A Christmas Day bombardment.
Of a headquarters.
In the city of Lgov.
Just outside the ‘elves’-held salient.
May have killed or.
Wounded members of.
The brigade’s command staff.
— an attack the blogger claimed.
Had nothing to do.
With the decision to pull.
The brigade off.
The front line.
A few days or weeks.
In Plekhove might not be.
Terribly relaxing.
For the survivors.
Of the 810th.
Naval Infantry Brigade’s.
First four months.
In Kursk.
The village is.
Well within range.
Of ‘elves’ forces’.
Heavy weapons.
“Plekhove, frankly speaking.
Is a dubious place.
For rest.”
The blogger admitted.
Four months after.
Racing to Kursk Oblast.
In western ‘Mordor’.
To meet.
The surprise ‘elves’ invasion.
Of that border region.
The ‘orcs’ navy’s battered.
810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
Is finally calling.
It quits.
— at least for.
A little while.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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A Battered Russian Marine Brigade Is Rotating Off the Kursk Front Line
No.19
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS FIERY IN LGOV
Something struck.
A group of ‘orcs’ troops.
In Lgov.
A town of 21,000.
In western ‘Mordor’.
Kursk Oblast.
Late Sunday.
Or early Monday.
“It’s terrible.”
A bystander cried.
“The guys are all.
In the bunker.”
They added as.
The bunker burned.
The fire was the result.
Of an ‘elves’ raid.
The fire was the result.
Of an ‘elves’ raid.
Which would make sense.
Lgov lies just 30 miles.
North of the town of Sudzha.
The anchor of.
The 250-square-mile salient.
That ‘elves’ forces.
Carved out of Kursk.
Back in August.
It’s a key road and.
Rail node for troops.
And supplies supporting.
The two-month-old.
‘Orcs’ counteroffensive.
In Kursk.
Something struck.
A group of ‘orcs’ troops.
In Lgov.
A town of 21,000.
In western ‘Mordor’.
Kursk Oblast.
Late Sunday.
Or early Monday.
The ‘elves’ targeted Lgov.
Before most notably.
On Christmas Day.
When ‘elves’ munitions.
— possibly from American-made.
HIMARS launchers —
Blew up a headquarters.
Belonging to.
Belonging to.
The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
One of the lead units.
For the ‘orcs’ counteroffensive.
That attack.
— a “fiery impression” —
Came just days before.
‘Mordor’ pulled.
The battered 810th.
Naval Infantry Brigade.
Off the front line.
In order to replenish its losses.
Something struck.
A group of ‘orcs’ troops.
In Lgov.
A town of 21,000.
In western ‘Mordor’.
Kursk Oblast.
Late Sunday.
Or early Monday.
‘Elves’ strikes on Lgov.
Help to explain why.
50,000 or more.
‘Orcs’ along with.
12,000 North Korean reinforcements.
Haven’t yet been able to.
Eject 20,000 ‘elves’.
From Kursk.
Despite relentlessly attacking.
The ‘elves’ salient.
From all sides.
For two months.
‘Mordor’ “is still battling.
On its own territory.
And has been unable to.
Drive Ukraine out.”
“Drive Ukraine out.
Of Kursk Oblast.”
An analyst noted.
“It's quite pathetic!”
Something struck.
A group of ‘orcs’ troops.
In Lgov.
A town of 21,000.
In western ‘Mordor’.
Kursk Oblast.
Late Sunday.
Or early Monday.
But the ‘orcs’ failures.
In Kursk aren’t just.
The result of.
Their own incompetence.
These failures are also.
The consequence of.
A successful campaign of.
Deep strikes by ‘elves’ forces.
The ‘elves’ are hitting.
‘Orcs’ assault groups.
With mines, drones.
And artillery.
As the ‘orcs’ bear down.
On ‘elves’ positions.
— and they’re also disrupting.
‘Orcs’ logistics.
Reinforcements and.
Command by hitting them.
With rockets from.
Tens of miles away.
Something struck.
A group of ‘orcs’ troops.
In Lgov.
A town of 21,000.
In western ‘Mordor’.
Kursk Oblast.
Late Sunday.
Or early Monday.
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As Russian Troops Head For Kursk, Ukraine’s HIMARS Meet Them Halfway
No.20
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS RUNNING DOWN
Against all odds.
‘Elves’ forces went on.
The attack.
On Sunday.
Assault groups.
Anchored by ‘elves’.
Independent air assault forces.
Rolled out.
From their trenches.
And basement bunkers.
On the northern edge of.
The 250-square-mile salient.
‘Elves’ troops hold in western.
‘Mordor’’s Kursk Oblast.
And despite.
Being outnumbered.
Three-to-one.
All along the salient.
Advanced as far as.
Two miles.
The fighting in and around.
The village of Berdin was fierce.
Drones pummeled attackers.
And defenders alike.
‘Elves’ and ‘orcs’ infantry were.
Close enough to each other.
To fire short-range.
Grenade launchers.
And one ‘elves’ crew turned.
Their eight-wheeled Stryker.
Infantry fighting vehicle.
Into a weapon.
— and ran down.
And over at least.
One hapless ‘orc’ soldier.
Trying to dodge on foot.
The fighting in and around.
The village of Berdin was fierce.
Drones pummeled attackers.
And defenders alike.
The brutal daytime incident.
On a snow-blanketed field.
Somewhere in Kursk.
Was dispassionately observed.
By at least two ‘elves’.
Surveillance drones.
As the drones.
Streamed video.
The 19-ton Stryker.
Accelerated across the field.
Turning sharply.
To line up.
On ‘orcs’ soldiers.
On ‘orcs’ soldiers.
Caught unprotected.
In the snow.
The fighting in and around.
The village of Berdin was fierce.
Drones pummeled attackers.
And defenders alike.
It’s apparent from the footage.
That the speedy Stryker.
Normally crewed by.
Two soldiers, struck someone.
Whether that someone.
Lived or died is unclear.
Injured or dead.
They’re just.
Another broken body.
In a war that has.
Killed and maimed.
More than a million people.
On both sides.
In 35 bloody months.
Only the circumstances.
Are unique.
The fighting in and around.
The village of Berdin was fierce.
Drones pummeled attackers.
And defenders alike.
Why were the ‘orcs’?
All alone and unsupported?
Why didn’t the Stryker crew?
Open fire with the vehicle’s?
Top-mounted machine gun?
Instead of running down?
With great effort?
And at great risk?
Its victim?
Or victims?
It’s possible to answer.
Both questions.
The fighting in and around.
The village of Berdin was fierce.
Drones pummeled attackers.
And defenders alike.
If the ‘elves’ advanced quickly enough.
Taking the defending ‘orcs’.
By surprise.
They may have succeeded.
In cutting off a few.
Outlying ‘orcs’ positions.
And the unfortunate troops.
Occupying them.
That kind of confused fighting.
Has characterized.
The battle for Kursk.
Ever since a strong ‘elves’ forces.
The battle for Kursk.
Ever since a strong ‘elves’ forces.
Invaded the oblast.
Back in August.
The fighting in and around.
The village of Berdin was fierce.
Drones pummeled attackers.
And defenders alike.
As for the Stryker crew’s.
Motives — it’s possible.
The vehicle’s gun jammed.
Or ran out of ammunition.
Equally possible:
The automotive slaughter.
Was nothing.
More than bloodlust.
If the latter.
It’s an important indicator.
Of the morale and.
Will to fight of.
At least one vehicle crew.
In a military.
That admittedly has.
Thousands of them.
The fighting in and around.
The village of Berdin was fierce.
Drones pummeled attackers.
And defenders alike.
Hatred of the enemy.
And an eagerness to kill them.
Is a prerequisite.
For victory.
In a young army facing.
A more established foe.
Cultivating this hatred.
Is difficult.
It comes with time.
And painful experience.
It comes with time.
And painful experience.
The fighting in and around.
The village of Berdin was fierce.
Drones pummeled attackers.
And defenders alike.
The’elves’, many of whom.
Were civilians.
As recently as three years ago.
And joined the military.
Only after ‘Mordor’ widened.
Its invasion of Ukraine.
In February.
2022.
May have been quicker.
To internalize that.
Vital hatred of.
A foreign attacker.
The fighting in and around.
The village of Berdin was fierce.
Drones pummeled attackers.
And defenders alike.
If one bloodthirsty.
Vehicle crew.
Going out of its way.
To run over.
A defenseless ‘orcs’.
Is any indication.
The hatred now.
Runs deep.
Against all odds.
‘Elves’ forces went on.
The attack.
On Sunday.
Assault groups.
Anchored by ‘elves’.
Independent air assault forces.
Rolled out.
From their trenches.
And basement bunkers.
On the northern edge of.
The 250-square-mile salient.
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The Crew Of A Ukrainian Stryker Ran Over At Least One Hapless Russian
No.21
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS PRECISE IN BELAYA
For the second time.
In two weeks.
‘Elves’ forces have blown up.
A headquarters.
Belonging to the ‘orcs’.
810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
The battered brigade.
One of the lead units.
For ‘orcs’ two-month-old.
Counteroffensive.
In western ‘Mordor’’s.
Kursk Oblast.
Just can’t catch.
A break.
Just can’t catch.
A break.
The “precision” raid hit.
The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade’s.
Headquarters in Belaya.
On Tuesday.
It’s unclear.
What munitions.
The ‘elves’ used.
But Belaya is only.
20 miles east.
Of Sudzha.
— the anchor of.
The 250-square-mile salient.
That ‘elves’ troops carved out.
Of Kursk in August —
So there are a lot.
Of candidates.
They include U.S.-made.
HIMARS firing.
Guided rockets or.
ATACMS ballistic missiles.
Warplanes lobbing.
American or French glide bombs.
Or French or British cruise missiles.
And heavy attack drones.
Thirty-five months into.
‘Orcs’ wider war on Ukraine.
Ukraine possesses an array.
Of deep-strike weapons.
The “precision” raid hit.
The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade’s.
Headquarters in Belaya.
On Tuesday.
The beleaguered 810th.
Naval Infantry Brigade has been.
On the receiving end.
Of a disproportionate share.
On the receiving end.
Of a disproportionate share.
Of this firepower.
On Christmas Day.
On Christmas Day.
The ‘elves’ struck.
A separate brigade headquarters.
In Lgov.
25 miles.
North of Sudzha.
Creating a “fiery impression.”
Was quipped.
The “precision” raid hit.
The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade’s.
Headquarters in Belaya.
On Tuesday.
Shortly after.
The Christmas Day raid.
The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
Rotated off the front line.
On the northwest edge.
Of the Kursk salient.
And motored to Plekhove.
Just east of the salient.
For a brief period.
Of rest.
The 2,500-person unit.
Needed the break.
The “precision” raid hit.
The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade’s.
Headquarters in Belaya.
On Tuesday.
The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
And its sister unit.
In the Kursk counteroffensive.
The tragic 155th Naval Infantry Brigade.
Have been badly depleted.
By two months of.
Mostly failed assaults.
On the salient.
Today, ‘elves’ troops.
Repulsed yet another attack.
By the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
Around Pogrebki.
The ‘orcs’ marines.
Have thrown at least.
Two 400-person battalions.
At Pogrebki.
Since November.
With nothing.
To show for it.
But casualties.
The “precision” raid hit.
The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade’s.
Headquarters in Belaya.
On Tuesday.
Also today:
An ‘elves’ missile struck.
A concentration of.
810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
Marines in Ivanovskoe.
25 miles north of Sudzha.
Coming amid.
Repeated strikes.
On ‘orcs’ marines.
Elsewhere in Kursk.
That attack in Ivanovskoe.
Almost seems gratuitous.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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Ukraine Blows Up Russian Marine Corps Headquarters All Over Kursk
No.22
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS REINFORCING
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
A pair of ‘orcs’ field armies.
Together overseeing.
70,000 troops in dozens.
Of regiments and brigades.
Is bearing down.
On Pokrovsk.
A fortress city in eastern.
‘Elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
Bracing for the coming assault.
The culmination of.
An ‘orcs’ offensive that began.
More than a year ago.
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
But one of the reinforcing units.
The newly formed.
155th Mechanized Brigade.
— one of the few ‘elves’ brigades.
— one of the few ‘elves’ brigades.
With German-made.
Leopard 2 tanks and.
French-made Caesar howitzers —
Began disintegrating.
Before it even arrived.
In the besieged city.
Last week.
The brigade was supposed to.
Have more than 5,800 troops.
Making it much larger than.
Most of the ‘elves’ ground forces’.
Making it much larger than.
Most of the ‘elves’ ground forces’.
Roughly 100.
Other combat brigades.
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
But around 1,700 of.
Those 5,800 troops.
Went absent without leave.
From the brigade.
At some point during.
Its nine-month work-up.
In western Ukraine.
Poland and France.
As recently as November.
Nearly 500 soldiers.
Were reportedly.
Still AWOL.
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
“The issue is.
In organizational and.
Leadership failure.”
According to an analyst.
Rolling into battle.
Outside Pokrovsk.
In recent days.
The 155th Mechanized Brigade.
Suffered heavy casualties.
Reportedly even.
Losing some of its tanks.
And other armored vehicles.
Those troops and tanks.
Would have stood.
A better chance fighting.
Under experienced brigades.
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
According to Lt. Col..
Chief of staff of.
The ‘elves’ National Guard’s.
Azov Brigade.
“Can it be idiocy?
To create new brigades?
And equip them?
With such equipment?”
“Having incomplete?
Existing ones?”
He asked.
“Can it be idiocy?
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
It’s not necessarily idiocy.
— it’s politics.
Under pressure to demonstrate.
To ‘elves’ ficklest allies.
That Ukraine still has.
Reserves of strength.
And the capacity.
To keep fighting.
‘Gandalf the Green’ and.
His top generals.
Have done the showy thing:
Formed new brigades.
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
“The country's top political.
And military leadership.
Actually played with.
The 155th Mechanized Brigade.”
“Without even trying to.
Systematically prepare.
And train the brigade.
And without giving.”
“The brigade commanders.
Time to create.
A combat-ready team themselves.”
An ‘elf’ correspondent wrote.
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
Ironically.
The 155th Mechanized Brigade’s.
Disastrous first days.
In combat compelled.
‘Elves’ leaders to do.
With the brigade’s surviving.
Troops and equipment.
What those insisted.
They should have done.
From the outset:
They should have done.
From the outset:
Assign these forces.
To well-established brigades.
To well-established brigades.
In the Pokrovsk area.
But that won’t bring back.
The people and tanks.
The 155th Mechanized Brigade.
Lost last week.
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
The ‘elves’ are.
Reinforcing Pokrovsk.
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Ukraine’s New Leopard 2 Brigade Disintegrated Before Entering Combat
No.23
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS ROLLING OUT TO NOVOVASYLIVKA
Capturing the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘orcs’.
Top objectives.
Defending the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘elves’.
Top objectives.
For the troops.
On the ground.
That means relentless.
Close fighting.
In the towns.
And farmland.
Surrounding Pokrovsk.
A key transportation hub.
With a pre-war population.
Of 60,000 that.
After months of.
‘Orcs’ bombardment.
Is now increasingly.
Devoid of civilians.
Is now increasingly.
Devoid of civilians.
Capturing the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘orcs’.
Top objectives.
Defending the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘elves’.
Top objectives.
On or just before Friday.
A tank from the ‘elves’ army’s.
59th Motorized Brigade.
Rolled out to meet.
‘Orcs’ forces attacking.
The town of Novovasylivka.
Eight miles southwest.
Of Pokrovsk.
Rolling forward and backward.
Possibly to complicate.
Enemy targeting.
The tank fired.
Half a dozen rounds.
In quick succession.
At targets.
In a treeline.
Just a few hundred.
Yards away.
The tank crew may have slowed.
The attacking ‘orcs’.
The tank crew may have slowed.
The attacking ‘orcs’.
But it didn’t stop them.
Novovasylivka has fallen.
Capturing the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘orcs’.
Top objectives.
Defending the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘elves’.
Top objectives.
It’s unclear what kind of tank.
The 59th Motorized Brigade.
Has deployed for.
The defense of Pokrovsk.
The 2,000-person brigade.
Operates ‘elves’ standard.
T-64BV tank.
But may have also received.
Some of the 150 or so.
Refurbished Leopard 1A5s.
A German-led consortium.
Has pledged to the war effort.
If the brigade is lucky.
It may also get.
Some of the companies.
And battalions.
From the disintegrating.
155th Mechanized Brigade.
Which operates heavier.
Leopard 2A4 tanks.
Capturing the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘orcs’.
Top objectives.
Defending the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘elves’.
Top objectives.
The 155th Mechanized Brigade.
Began arriving.
In Pokrovsk.
Late last month.
But it was already falling.
Apart amid a collapse.
In its leadership and widespread.
Desertion by rank-and-file troops.
To salvage.
The 155th Mechanized Brigade.
A unit that Ukraine, France.
And Poland spent months.
And millions of dollars.
Training and equipping.
‘Elves’ leaders have begun.
Assigning its fresh but.
Inexperienced subordinate units.
To the weary but.
Experienced brigades.
In the Pokrovsk sector.
Capturing the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘orcs’.
Top objectives.
Defending the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘elves’.
Top objectives.
It’s perhaps the smartest way.
To make the best of.
A bad situation.
According to an ‘elf’ correspondent.
The older brigades.
“Have an acute shortage of.
People in the infantry.
They cannot hold.”
“A wide strip because of this.
And there are experienced.
Drone units, headquarters.
Command personnel.”
“Who can quickly train.
And make mobilized people.
Combat-ready.”
“Combat-ready.”
Capturing the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘orcs’.
Top objectives.
Defending the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘elves’.
Top objectives.
The 59th Motorized Brigade.
And its adjacent brigades.
Need all the help.
They can get.
Need all the help.
They can get.
As more ‘orcs’ troops.
Mass opposite their positions.
Parts or all of around.
10 ‘elves’ brigades.
And regiments hold.
A 10-mile front.
Between Pokrovsk and.
A pair of ‘orcs’ field armies.
Overseeing dozens of.
Brigades and regiments.
In all.
The ‘orcs’ might have.
A three-to-one advantage.
In troops and equipment.
Capturing the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘orcs’.
Top objectives.
Defending the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘elves’.
Top objectives.
If the 59th Motorized Brigade.
And any troops and vehicles.
It might gain from.
The 155th Mechanized.
Can’t halt the ‘orcs’.
The garrison in Pokrovsk.
Could soon find itself.
Partially surrounded.
That would be an ominous development.
For the ‘elves’ in what.
Is shaping up to be the first.
Big battle of 2025.
Capturing the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘orcs’.
Top objectives.
Defending the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘elves’.
Top objectives.
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Ukraine’s New Leopard 2 Unit Disintegrates; Russians Move On Pokrovsk
On this video: Putin's army launched suicidal attack on Ukrainian positions, result was disastrous for Russians.
No.24
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS PRESSURED
Tiny explosive drones.
Have rendered.
Large-scale armored assaults.
Practically suicidal.
All along the 800-mile.
Front line of ‘Mordor’’s.
35-month wider war.
On Ukraine.
“Every single time”.
‘Orcs’ regiments attempt.
A vehicle assault.
“The result is zero.”
One ‘orc’ blogger lamented.
But that doesn’t mean.
The ‘orcs’ can’t advance.
Indeed, they are advancing.
— especially south of.
The fortress city of Pokrovsk.
In eastern ‘elves’.
Donetsk Oblast.
And along the edges of.
The 250-square-mile salient.
A strong ‘elves’ force carved out of.
Western ‘elves’ Kursk Oblast.
Tiny explosive drones.
Have rendered.
Large-scale armored assaults.
Practically suicidal.
All along the 800-mile.
Front line of ‘Mordor’’s.
35-month wider war.
On Ukraine.
They advance by leaving.
Their vehicles behind.
And marching into.
Battle on foot.
“Infantry.
With the support of.
Artillery and drones.
Slowly but surely.”
“Slowly but surely.
Take tree line.
After tree line.”
The blogger noted.
Tiny explosive drones.
Have rendered.
Large-scale armored assaults.
Practically suicidal.
All along the 800-mile.
Front line of ‘Mordor’’s.
35-month wider war.
On Ukraine.
However, some.
‘Orcs’ commanders.
Keep trying.
With their tanks.
Infantry fighting vehicles.
And improvised combat vehicles.
Including vans.
Cars and golf carts.
But “no one reaches.
The objective.
No troops.
Are dismounted.”
“And the enemy.
Isn’t shredded by.
The fire of autocannons.”
The blogger complained.
Tiny explosive drones.
Have rendered.
Large-scale armored assaults.
Practically suicidal.
All along the 800-mile.
Front line of ‘Mordor’’s.
35-month wider war.
On Ukraine.
The blogger sarcastically.
Referred to the officers.
Behind these “suicidal runs”.
As “geniuses”.
In sending vehicles and.
Their crews on pointless.
“Banzai attacks” across.
The drone-patrolled no-man’s-land.
The tank commanders.
Gain nothing.
Lose everything and.
“Provide uplifting content.”
“For the armed forces of Ukraine.”
Whose drones record.
The destruction of.
Every ‘orcs’ column.
Tiny explosive drones.
Have rendered.
Large-scale armored assaults.
Practically suicidal.
All along the 800-mile.
Front line of ‘Mordor’’s.
35-month wider war.
On Ukraine.
The ‘orcs’ shift to infantry assaults.
Puts pressure on the ‘elves’.
To counter these assaults.
— with their own infantry.
But a deepening shortage.
Of trigger-pullers.
Is one of the biggest.
Problems inside.
The ‘elves’ armed forces.
As the wider war.
Grinds toward.
Its fourth year.
Tiny explosive drones.
Have rendered.
Large-scale armored assaults.
Practically suicidal.
All along the 800-mile.
Front line of ‘Mordor’’s.
35-month wider war.
On Ukraine.
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No.25
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS IN THE MIDDLE OF A DAY
At least 13 people.
Have been killed and.
another 32 injured.
In ‘orcs’ shelling.
In ‘elves’ southern city.
Of Zaporizhzhia.
The attack was described.
As “cruel” and “cynical”.
Zaporizhzhia lies close.
To the front line.
Zaporizhzhia lies close.
To the front line.
“The ‘orcs’ cynically.
Attacked the city.
In the middle of the day.”
The regional head said.
“In the middle of the day.”
Adding that two guided.
Aerial bombs hit.
Residential buildings.
Zaporizhzhia lies close.
To the front line.
Zaporizhzhia lies close.
To the front line.
Footage has emerged showing.
One high-rise building ablaze.
And a number of.
Vehicles on fire.
‘Gandalf the Green’ called on.
Allies to put pressure.
On ‘Mordor’.
“For its terror”.
Zaporizhzhia lies close.
To the front line.
Zaporizhzhia lies close.
To the front line.
In a video message.
From outside the bombed site.
The regional head said.
The ‘orcs’ shelling began.
At about 16:00.
Local time on Wednesday.
He said that.
Two guided bombs.
Struck residential buildings.
Earlier he had said.
“Industrial infrastructure”.
Had been targeted.
Zaporizhzhia lies close.
To the front line.
Zaporizhzhia lies close.
To the front line.
Graphic images.
Posted online showed.
First responders.
Treating casualties.
On the roadside.
Several vehicles on fire.
And a stationary tram.
With its windows shattered.
In one video.
At least two minibuses.
Are seen with their windows.
Blown out and.
What appear to be.
Casualties lying amid.
Rubble and debris.
On the road.
Zaporizhzhia lies close.
To the front line.
Zaporizhzhia lies close.
To the front line.
In a statement.
Later on Wednesday.
‘Gandalf the Green’ said that.
“There is nothing more cruel.”
“Than launching aerial bombs.
On a city.
Knowing that.
Ordinary civilians will suffer”.
And appealing.
To ‘elves’ allies.
For more support.
He said.
“That only through strength.
Can such a war be ended.
With a lasting peace”.
“With a lasting peace”.
Zaporizhzhia lies close.
To the front line.
Zaporizhzhia lies close.
To the front line.
A day of mourning.
Will be declared across.
The Zaporizhzhia region.
On Thursday.
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No.26
Kurama
(Japan)
A POET BEAMING
Her husband was.
Released from.
Captivity just over.
Three months ago.
The couple are now.
Happily back together.
And enjoy playing with.
Their four-year-old son.
How did she feel?
When her husband was?
Finally set free?
Finally set free?
“There were tears.
Of joy like.
I've never cried before.”
She says, beaming.
“It felt like.
I had snatched.
My love from.
The jaws of death.”
How concerned was she?
That he might go through?
With the threats?
To harm her husband?
Her eyes moisten.
“My heart ached.
And I could only pray:
‘God, please don't let that happen.’”
“One part of me said.
‘This person has.
No connection.
With the prisoners.’”
“The other part asks:
‘What if he really?
Can do it?
How would I live with myself?’”
She says she never.
Considered betraying.
Her country.
“Not for a second.”
“My husband would've.
Never forgiven me.”
She says, as you meet.
In her flat near Kyiv.
The 42-year-old.
Had been waiting for.
News of her husband.
An army medic.
Captured by ‘Mordor’.
For more than two years.
When she suddenly received.
A phone call.
The voice at the end of.
The phone told her.
That if she committed.
Treason against Ukraine.
Her husband could be.
Eligible for better.
Treatment in prison.
Or even early release.
How concerned was she?
That he might go through?
With the threats?
To harm her husband?
Her eyes moisten.
“My heart ached.
And I could only pray:
‘God, please don't let that happen.’”
“One part of me said.
‘This person has.
No connection.
With the prisoners.’”
“The other part asks:
‘What if he really?
Can do it?
How would I live with myself?’”
“An ‘elves’ number called me.
I picked up.
And the man introduced.
Himself.”
She explains.
“He spoke in.
An ‘orcs’ language accent.
He said.”
“‘You can either.
burn down.
A military enlistment office.
Set fire.’”
“‘To a military vehicle.
Or sabotage.
An ‘elves’ Railways.
Electrical box.’”
There was one other option:
To reveal the locations.
Of nearby.
Air defence units.
— vital military assets.
That keep ‘elves’ skies.
Safe from ‘orcs’.
Drones and missiles.
How concerned was she?
That he might go through?
With the threats?
To harm her husband?
Her eyes moisten.
“My heart ached.
And I could only pray:
‘God, please don't let that happen.’”
“One part of me said.
‘This person has.
No connection.
With the prisoners.’”
“The other part asks:
‘What if he really?
Can do it?
How would I live with myself?’”
As the man set out.
His proposal.
She recalled.
Instructions that.
The ‘elves’ authorities.
Had distributed to.
All families.
In the event of.
Being approached.
By ‘orcs’ agents:
Buy as much time as possible.
Record and photograph everything.
And report it.
She did report it.
And took screenshots.
Of the messages.
The ‘elves’ Security Service.
The SBU, told her.
To stall the ‘orcs’.
While they investigated.
So she pretended to.
So she pretended to.
Agree to firebomb.
A local railway line.
How concerned was she?
That he might go through?
With the threats?
To harm her husband?
Her eyes moisten.
“My heart ached.
And I could only pray:
‘God, please don't let that happen.’”
“One part of me said.
‘This person has.
No connection.
With the prisoners.’”
“The other part asks:
‘What if he really?
Can do it?
How would I live with myself?’”
As you sit.
In her immaculate sitting room.
With air raid sirens.
Periodically wailing outside.
She plays you.
Recordings she made.
On her phone of two of.
The voice calls with the man.
During the call.
He gives instructions.
On how to make and.
Plant a Molotov cocktail.
“Pour in a litre of.
Lighting fluid and.
Add a bit of petrol.”
He explains.
“Go to some sort of.
Railway junction.
Make sure there are.
No security cameras.”
“Wear a hat.
– just in case.”
He also gave her.
A tutorial.
In how to put her phone.
On airplane mode.
Once she was 1-2 km.
Away from her intended target.
To avoid her signal.
Being picked up.
By mobile phone masts that.
Could be used by investigators.
“Do you know what?
A relay box is?
Take a photo of it.
This should be the target.”
“For her arson attack.”
Explained the man.
Who demanded proof of.
Completion of the task.
“Write today's date.
On a piece of paper.
And take a photo.
With this piece of paper.”
In return.
The man said he could.
Arrange a phone call.
With her husband.
Arrange a phone call.
With her husband.
Or for a parcel.
To be delivered to him.
How concerned was she?
That he might go through?
With the threats?
To harm her husband?
Her eyes moisten.
“My heart ached.
And I could only pray:
‘God, please don't let that happen.’”
“One part of me said.
‘This person has.
No connection.
With the prisoners.’”
“The other part asks:
‘What if he really?
Can do it?
How would I live with myself?’”
Later, the SBU told her.
That the man.
She'd been talking to was.
Indeed in ‘Mordor’.
And she should.
Break off contact.
She told the man.
She'd changed her mind.
“That's when the threats began.
He said they'd.
Kill my husband.
And I'd never see him again.”
For days, he kept calling.
Saying: “Your husband is.
Being tortured.
And it's your fault!”
How concerned was she?
That he might go through?
With the threats?
To harm her husband?
Her eyes moisten.
“My heart ached.
And I could only pray:
‘God, please don't let that happen.’”
“One part of me said.
‘This person has.
No connection.
With the prisoners.’”
“The other part asks:
‘What if he really?
Can do it?
How would I live with myself?’”
Her husband told her.
The ‘orcs’ didn't act.
On their threats to punish him.
For her refusal to co-operate.
When she told her husband.
About the calls.
He was shocked.
“He asked me.”
“How I held up.”
She says, and winks.
“Well, as I always say.
I'm an officer's wife.”
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No.27
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS APPROACHED
The authorities don't.
Publish the numbers.
Of ‘elves’ held.
As prisoners of war.
But the number.
Is thought to be.
More than 8,000.
More than 8,000.
In a statement.
The SBU said.
Co-operating with.
‘Orcs’ agents.
“Will in no way.
Ease the plight.
Of the prisoner;
On the contrary.”
“On the contrary.
It may significantly.
Complicate their chances.
Of being exchanged.”
The authorities are urging.
All relatives to come forward.
Immediately if they are.
Approached by ‘orcs’ agents.
Those who do.
They say, will be.
“Protected.”
And treated as victims.
But if relatives.
Agree to commit.
Sabotage or espionage.
Says the SBU.
“This may be classified.
As treason.
The maximum punishment.
Is life imprisonment.”
The authorities don't.
Publish the numbers.
Of ‘elves’ held.
As prisoners of war.
But the number.
Is thought to be.
More than 8,000.
More than 8,000.
The authorities regularly.
Publicise arrests.
Of ‘elves’ who.
Allegedly commit arson.
Or reveal the location.
Of military sites.
To ‘Mordor’.
To ‘Mordor’.
Pro-‘orcs’ media is.
Awash with videos.
Purporting to show ‘elves’.
Torching army vehicles.
Or railway electrical boxes.
Some of the culprits.
Do it for money, paid by.
Suspected ‘orcs’ agents.
But it is thought.
There are attacks.
Carried out by.
Desperate relatives, too.
The authorities don't.
Publish the numbers.
Of ‘elves’ held.
As prisoners of war.
But the number.
Is thought to be.
More than 8,000.
More than 8,000.
A man, from the ‘elves’.
Military's Headquarters for.
The Treatment of Prisoners.
Of War, says.
Around 50% of.
All families of.
PoWs are contacted.
By ‘orcs’ agents.
“They're in.
A very vulnerable position.
And some of them.
Are ready to do anything.”
“But we are trying.
To educate them.
That it won't help.
Their loved ones in captivity.”
He says an act.
Such as setting fire.
To a military vehicle.
Isn't considered.
A significant material loss.
To the ‘elves’ Armed Forces:
“But it can destabilise.
The unity.”
“But it can destabilise.
The unity of.
‘Elves’ society.
So that's the main problem.”
“And, of course.
If someone shares.
The location of.
For example.”
“Air defence systems.
That's a big problem.
For us too.”
He admits.
The authorities don't.
Publish the numbers.
Of ‘elves’ held.
As prisoners of war.
But the number.
Is thought to be.
More than 8,000.
More than 8,000.
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No.28
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS IN A CATHEDRAL
A woman, 36.
Wails in anguish.
— her agony.
Echoing around.
Echoing around.
The gilded walls of.
St Michael's Cathedral.
In Kyiv.
She sits with.
Her hands resting.
On both sides.
Of her stomach.
She is heavily.
Pregnant with.
Her first child.
A baby girl.
Her husband is.
Just inches away.
In uniform.
— in an open coffin.
The marine commander.
Was killed in action.
In eastern Ukraine.
On 4 January this year.
He is now and.
Forever 33.
He is now and.
Forever 33.
While he fought.
In the war.
She wrote about it.
As a journalist.
His brothers in arms.
File past.
Dropping red roses.
Into his coffin.
As funeral prayers.
Come to an end.
She leans forward.
And gives.
She leans forward.
And gives.
“The love of her life”.
One last kiss.
He is now and.
Forever 33.
He is now and.
Forever 33.
Outside the cathedral.
She pays tribute to.
Her “most handsome husband”.
Who died for his country.
“I am sorry.
My daughter will.
Never see her father.
But she will know.”
“Never see her father.
But she will know.
That he was a soldier.
An officer.”
“And that he did everything.
He could for Ukraine.
To exist for her and.
For other generations.”
“This war will last.
As long as ‘Mordor’ does.
I truly fear.
Our children will.”
“Our children will.
Inherit it from us.
And will have to.
Go and fight.”
He is now and.
Forever 33.
He is now and.
Forever 33.
Not according to the man.
Who famously claimed.
He could end the war.
In a day.
And who returns to.
The White House next week.
He is already pushing.
For peace talks.
Between Ukraine.
And ‘Mordor’.
That would dishonour the dead.
According to the Sgt.
Who fought alongside.
Her husband and.
Came to the cathedral.
To mourn him.
“Let the people.
In power decide.
But I don't think.
The ones who fell.”
“The ones who fell.
Would want.
‘Elves’ leadership to.
Sit around the table.”
“After the funeral.
We are heading back to work.
We will fight for.
Every ‘elves’ who fell.”
He is now and.
Forever 33.
He is now and.
Forever 33.
Plenty here believe.
– like she and the Sgt –
That far too many ‘elves’.
Have been killed.
To try to do.
A deal with ‘Mordor’.
But public opinion.
Is shifting.
And others believe.
There is too much.
Death and destruction.
Not to do a deal.
As Ukraine battles through.
Its third winter of war.
One word is now little.
Spoken here – “victory”.
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No.29
Kurama
(Japan)
A POET IN A DOCK
“Help Ukraine.”
He told you.
As he was led away.
“Help Ukraine.”
Six hours drive from Kyiv.
In the heart of Ukraine.
A young soldier is.
In the dock.
A burly 24-year-old.
Is locked in.
A glass cubicle.
In a packed courtroom.
In the city of Dnipro.
He is on trial.
On charges of desertion.
And is one of many.
“Help Ukraine.”
He told you.
As he was led away.
“Help Ukraine.”
Since 2022.
Around 100,000 cases.
Have been opened.
Against soldiers.
Who left their units.
When he went absent.
Without leave.
He went public.
With demands for.
A clear time frame.
For ending.
Military service.
“Help Ukraine.”
He told you.
As he was led away.
“Help Ukraine.”
He says he is.
Ready to fight.
But not without.
A plan for demobilisation.
He has already served.
For five years.
Including two before.
‘Orcs’ full-scale invasion.
“We must continue to fight.”
He said during a break.
In the hearing.
“We have no other choice.”
“Help Ukraine.”
He told you.
As he was led away.
“Help Ukraine.”
“We must continue to fight.
But soldiers are not slaves.
Everyone who has spent.
Three years or more.”
“On the front line deserves.
The right to rest.
The authorities.
Have been promising.”
“For a very long time.
To set terms.
Of service.
But they have not done it.”
“Help Ukraine.”
He told you.
As he was led away.
“Help Ukraine.”
In court he also.
Complained of corruption.
Among commanders.
And of deadly incompetence.
After the brief.
Procedural hearing.
He was handcuffed.
For the journey.
Back to prison.
If convicted.
He faces up to.
12 years in jail.
“Help Ukraine.”
He told you.
As he was led away.
“Help Ukraine.”
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No.30
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS WATCHFUL
A man, 42.
The chain-smoking commander.
Of a drone unit.
Does battle every night.
Does battle every night.
Fuelled by.
“Non-Stop”.
- an ‘elves’ energy drink.
He is with.
The 68th “Jaeger” Brigade.
Fighting to hold on.
To the eastern front-line city.
Of Pokrovsk.
– a key transportation hub.
The ‘orcs’ are closing in.
On two sides.
‘Elves’ troops send.
Supersized attack drones.
Into combat in the skies.
As the ‘orcs’ inch forward.
He drives you.
To an ‘elves’ position.
– a journey you can only.
Risk after dark.
And in an armoured car.
The ‘orcs’ too.
Have eyes.
In the skies.
Their drones are.
A constant threat.
He is watchful.
And weary.
“I went to.
The enlistment office.
In the first days.
And I hoped.”
“Everything would go quickly.
Honestly, I am tired.
Time off is rare.”
In his case.
A total of 40 days.
In three years.
“Honestly, I am tired.
Time off is rare.”
“The only thing.
That saves me is that.
I can video chat.
With my family.”
‘Elves’ troops send.
Supersized attack drones.
Into combat in the skies.
As the ‘orcs’ inch forward.
You arrive at.
A disused house where.
He and his men unload.
Their equipment.
And set up.
A pop-up drone position.
Screens are carried in.
And cables connected.
Outside, troops erect.
An antenna taller than.
A two-story building.
They work fast.
Under torchlight.
– using red beams.
Not white as these are.
Harder to detect.
Then they assemble.
Bombs to arm.
Their “vampire”.
– a supersized attack drone.
‘Elves’ troops send.
Supersized attack drones.
Into combat in the skies.
As the ‘orcs’ inch forward.
For the next few hours.
You have front-row seats.
As he pilots.
The drone.
His eyes darting.
From screen to screen.
First, he drops supplies.
To front-line ‘elves’ troops.
And then drops.
An anti-tank mine.
On ‘orcs’ forces.
Underground.
It falls slightly.
Wide of its target.
He is up against.
High winds and.
‘Orcs’ jamming.
All the while.
He is on the look-out.
For incoming enemy drones.
‘Elves’ troops send.
Supersized attack drones.
Into combat in the skies.
As the ‘orcs’ inch forward.
He detects.
An ‘orcs’ warplane.
In the skies.
Minutes later.
You hear.
The distinct thud of.
Three ‘orcs’ glide bombs.
“It's far,” he tells you.
That turns out.
To mean two to.
Three kilometres away.
“It's far,” he tells you.
‘Elves’ troops send.
Supersized attack drones.
Into combat in the skies.
As the ‘orcs’ inch forward.
During a lull.
You ask him if.
He thinks a peace deal.
Is possible.
“Maybe not.
‘The One’ is a completely.
Unstable person.
And that's putting it.”
“And that's putting it.
Very gently.
I hope that at some stage.
The enemy will stop.”
“Because they tire out.
Or someone with.
A sound mind.
Comes to power.”
‘Elves’ troops send.
Supersized attack drones.
Into combat in the skies.
As the ‘orcs’ inch forward.
While he is.
A veteran of this war.
One of his men.
Is a beginner.
The twenty-four-year-old.
Joined up last September.
As the ‘orcs’ neared.
His hometown.
He now spends.
His time handling explosives.
– though he would prefer to be.
At college learning languages.
‘Elves’ troops send.
Supersized attack drones.
Into combat in the skies.
As the ‘orcs’ inch forward.
“No-one knows.
How long the war will last.
Maybe not even.
The politicians.”
“I would like it.
To end soon so that.
Civilians won't suffer.
And people won't die anymore.”
“But considering.
How things are now.
On the front line.
It won't be soon.”
He believes that.
If the guns are silenced.
It will be only a pause.
Before ‘orcs’ come back for more.
‘Elves’ troops send.
Supersized attack drones.
Into combat in the skies.
As the ‘orcs’ inch forward.
The winds get stronger.
And the vampire drone.
Crash-lands.
It's out of action for now.
The unit pack up.
And leave.
As fast as they came.
They will be.
Back in action.
At nightfall.
Resuming the duels.
In the sky.
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No.31
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS WIELDING
‘Elves’ shotgun-wielding.
Drones are hunting.
‘Orcs’ infantry now.
‘Orcs’ infantry now.
A video montage that.
An ‘elves’ drone group.
Posted online.
On Saturday depicts.
One of the group’s.
“Winchester” quadcopters.
Performing its.
Usual mission:
Hunting down and.
Blasting ‘orcs’ quadcopters.
Before they strike.
‘Elves’ troops.
‘Elves’ shotgun-wielding.
Drones are hunting.
‘Orcs’ infantry now.
‘Orcs’ infantry now.
But seemingly.
Taking advantage of.
A fleeting opportunity.
One operator also.
Took aim at.
A solitary ‘orc’ soldier.
— or North Korean—
Marching along.
A solitary ‘orc’ soldier.
— or North Korean —
If the engagement took place.
In western ‘Mordor’’s Kursk Oblast —
Marching along.
A dirt road.
Under the Winchester’s.
Flight path.
‘Elves’ shotgun-wielding.
Drones are hunting.
‘Orcs’ infantry now.
‘Orcs’ infantry now.
The drone swooped past.
The initially unwitting soldier.
And opened fire with.
Both of its shotgun barrels.
Apparently.
Having missed.
The drone came around.
For a second pass.
It’s unclear.
Whether the soldier.
Was wounded.
Or killed.
The video appears.
To depict the person.
Dodging or falling.
It’s unclear.
‘Elves’ shotgun-wielding.
Drones are hunting.
‘Orcs’ infantry now.
‘Orcs’ infantry now.
It’s hard to day whether.
This signals a shift.
In ‘elves’ drone tactics.
But the value of.
But the value of.
A gun-armed.
First-person-view drone.
Is obvious.
Most FPV quadcopters.
Are single-use systems.
Clutching a grenade or.
Rocket warhead to their bellies.
They barrel into.
Their targets and.
Destroy themselves.
In the process.
An FPV might cost.
Just a few hundred dollars.
So the type isn’t.
Exactly expensive.
‘Elves’ shotgun-wielding.
Drones are hunting.
‘Orcs’ infantry now.
‘Orcs’ infantry now.
But Ukraine would undoubtedly.
Prefer to squeeze.
More than one strike.
Out of each of.
The 100,000.
Or more FPVs.
Its workshops build.
Every month.
Firing shotguns.
At individual soldiers.
Rather than ramming them.
With explosives.
The Winchesters could.
Become multi-use systems.
— boosting the number of strikes.
A typical FPV completes.
Before its self-immolates.
Or gets shot down.
If there’s a downside to.
FPV shotgun ambushes.
It’s that shotguns work.
Best at close range.
Owing to the dispersal.
Of their shot.
‘Elves’ shotgun-wielding.
Drones are hunting.
‘Orcs’ infantry now.
‘Orcs’ infantry now.
To blast a soldier.
A drone needs.
To get close.
And at that range.
It could be vulnerable.
To the soldier’s.
Own weapon.
— potentially including.
The weapon of choice.
For defeating.
Incoming FPVs:
A shotgun.
‘Elves’ shotgun-wielding.
Drones are hunting.
‘Orcs’ infantry now.
‘Orcs’ infantry now.
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No.32
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS DISRUPTING
If it seems like.
‘Elves’ forces.
Have been systematically.
Hunting down.
‘Orcs’ headquarters staffs.
And blowing them up.
In their bunkers lately.
It’s because.
That’s exactly.
What they’ve been doing.
That’s exactly.
What they’ve been doing.
Outgunned, outnumbered.
And on the defensive.
Despite staggering.
‘Orcs’ losses.
As ‘orcs’ wider war.
On Ukraine grinds toward.
Its fourth year.
The ‘elves’ are trying to.
The ‘elves’ are trying to.
Disrupt ‘orcs’ command.
And control in order to.
Slow ‘orcs’ assaults.
If it seems like.
‘Elves’ forces.
Have been systematically.
Hunting down.
‘Orcs’ headquarters staffs.
And blowing them up.
In their bunkers lately.
It’s because.
That’s exactly.
What they’ve been doing.
That’s exactly.
What they’ve been doing.
The latest strike.
On or just before Sunday.
Was a dramatic one.
As an ‘elves’ drone observed.
From overhead.
Some deep-strike munition.
Struck an abandoned high-rise.
In Novohrodivka that.
— a rocket, bomb.
Or cruise missile.
It seems —
In Novohrodivka that.
The ‘orcs’ 2nd Guards.
Combined Arms Army.
Had transformed into.
A makeshift headquarters.
“This operation is.
Part of a series of.
Strikes targeting.
Command posts.”
“Command posts.
Of the occupying forces.
In the Donetsk direction.”
The ‘elves’ general staff reported.
If it seems like.
‘Elves’ forces.
Have been systematically.
Hunting down.
‘Orcs’ headquarters staffs.
And blowing them up.
In their bunkers lately.
It’s because.
That’s exactly.
What they’ve been doing.
That’s exactly.
What they’ve been doing.
Other recent ‘elves’.
Raids have targeted.
The ‘orcs’ 810th.
Naval Infantry Brigade’s.
Headquarters.
In and around.
Kursk Oblast.
In western ‘Mordor’.
There’s not yet any information.
About ‘orcs’ casualties.
In Novohrodivka.
But they could be heavy.
An entire section of.
The high-rise appears.
To have collapsed.
In the strike.
Echoing the bloodiest.
And most brutal skirmishes.
In the ruins of.
The city of Toretsk.
25 miles.
To the northeast.
Echoing the bloodiest.
And most brutal skirmishes.
Novohrodivka is.
On the bleeding edge of.
The ‘orcs’ offensive.
Grinding toward Pokrovsk.
A fortress city.
Anchoring the front line.
In eastern ‘elves’.
Donestk Oblast.
If it seems like.
‘Elves’ forces.
Have been systematically.
Hunting down.
‘Orcs’ headquarters staffs.
And blowing them up.
In their bunkers lately.
It’s because.
That’s exactly.
What they’ve been doing.
That’s exactly.
What they’ve been doing.
That the 2nd Guards.
Combined Arms Army.
Which oversees a dozen or.
More regiments and brigades.
Is entrenched.
In Novohrodivka.
Is bad news for the ‘elves’.
Garrison in Pokrovsk.
Which is desperate for.
Reinforcements after.
A newly arriving unit.
— the 155th Mechanized Brigade —
Began disintegrating before.
It even reached Pokrovsk.
From Novohrodivka.
The ‘orcs’ can hit.
Pokrovsk with practically all of.
Their indirect-fire weapons.
Including short-range.
Explosive drones.
If it seems like.
‘Elves’ forces.
Have been systematically.
Hunting down.
‘Orcs’ headquarters staffs.
And blowing them up.
In their bunkers lately.
It’s because.
That’s exactly.
What they’ve been doing.
That’s exactly.
What they’ve been doing.
But the proximity of.
The ‘orcs’ to Pokrovsk.
Also brings them.
Into range of.
The Pokrovsk garrison’s.
Own short-range weapons.
— and its most numerous.
Surveillance drones:
The first link.
In the “kill chain”.
That ends with.
‘Orcs’ HQs exploding.
If it seems like.
‘Elves’ forces.
Have been systematically.
Hunting down.
‘Orcs’ headquarters staffs.
And blowing them up.
In their bunkers lately.
It’s because.
That’s exactly.
What they’ve been doing.
That’s exactly.
What they’ve been doing.
As the main battle.
For Pokrovsk begins.
In the coming days.
Or weeks.
And more ‘orcs’ force stage.
Closer to the city.
Their commanders and command staffs.
Will stage closer to the city, as well.
The elves will be.
Looking for them.
And preparing to strike with.
Rockets, missiles and bombs.
If it seems like.
‘Elves’ forces.
Have been systematically.
Hunting down.
‘Orcs’ headquarters staffs.
And blowing them up.
In their bunkers lately.
It’s because.
That’s exactly.
What they’ve been doing.
That’s exactly.
What they’ve been doing.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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A Russian HQ Set Up Near Pokrovsk. Ukrainians Blew Up The Building.
No.33
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS HONING
For the first time.
In ‘Mordor’’s.
35-month wider war.
On Ukraine.
The ‘elves’ may have.
A tank advantage.
Over the ‘orcs’.
But only along.
But only along.
Certain stretches of.
The 800-mile.
Front line.
It all comes.
Down to drones.
As is often the case.
In a war.
That is increasingly.
Dominated by.
Robotic systems.
Of all types.
“Our tanks can only.
Operate from covered positions.”
One ‘orc’ blogger.
Complained in a long missive.
Reduced to firing from.
Camouflaged positions.
Miles behind the front line.
‘Orcs’ tanks are essentially.
Inaccurate howitzers.
— and not the assault-leading.
Combat vehicles.
Their designers intended.
By contrast.
‘Elves’ tanks operate.
“More freely.”
The blogger claimed.
It all comes.
Down to drones.
As is often the case.
In a war.
That is increasingly.
Dominated by.
Robotic systems.
Of all types.
“The enemy has achieved.
Sufficient scale.
And variety.
In its drones.”
“And has honed.
Its tactics.
For their use.”
The blogger explained.
Anywhere along.
The front line.
Where the ‘elves’.
Have managed to deploy.
Two company-sized.
Drone groups.
Each with a few.
Dozen operators.
‘Orcs’ tanks “simply.
Don’t reach the line.
For launching an attack.”
According to the blogger.
They get droned miles.
Behind the line of contact.
They get droned miles.
Behind the line of contact.
It all comes.
Down to drones.
As is often the case.
In a war.
That is increasingly.
Dominated by.
Robotic systems.
Of all types.
‘Elves’ tanks enjoy.
Safer air space.
The blogger claimed.
“Our drone operations.”
“Our drone operations.
Are much weaker”.
Owing to intensive.
‘Elves’ radio jamming.
And poor quality control.
In drone manufacturing.
Overseen by corrupt.
Kremlin bureaucrats.
So ‘elves’ tanks can roll.
Right up to the line.
Of contact.
To directly engage.
To directly engage.
‘Orcs’ forces.
With their cannons.
And machine guns.
It all comes.
Down to drones.
As is often the case.
In a war.
That is increasingly.
Dominated by.
Robotic systems.
Of all types.
The ‘orcs’ only salvation is.
Their abundant stocks of.
Shoulder-fired anti-tank.
Guided missiles, the blogger wrote.
The ‘elves’ purported.
Tank advantage.
As the wider war grinds toward.
Its fourth year represents.
A reversal since 2022.
Back then, ‘elves’ brigades.
“Rarely used direct fire.
With tanks”.
Owing to ‘orcs’.
Huge advantage.
Huge advantage.
In artillery and air power.
Tiny drones and drone jammers.
Hadn’t yet transformed.
The battlefield and tilted.
The tank advantage toward Ukraine.
It all comes.
Down to drones.
As is often the case.
In a war.
That is increasingly.
Dominated by.
Robotic systems.
Of all types.
The exception to.
This alleged new dynamic.
Is in Kursk Oblast.
In western ‘Mordor’.
Where a strong ‘elves’ force.
Is fighting.
To retain control of.
250 square miles.
250 square miles.
Of ‘orcs’ soil.
It seized.
Back in August.
The Kremlin has supplied.
Its regiments and brigades.
In Kursk with the best.
Fiber-optic drones.
Which are controlled.
Via signals traveling through.
Thin cables — and can’t be.
Jammed by traditional means.
It all comes.
Down to drones.
As is often the case.
In a war.
That is increasingly.
Dominated by.
Robotic systems.
Of all types.
The ‘orcs’ fiber-optic drones.
Helped blunt.
An ‘elves’ attack.
Along the northern edge.
An ‘elves’ attack.
Along the northern edge.
Of the Kursk salient.
On 5 January.
Evidence abounds of.
The new jam-proof drones.
Striking ‘elves’ tanks.
Including the best.
American-made.
M-1 Abrams.
And German-made.
Leopard 2s.
It all comes.
Down to drones.
As is often the case.
In a war.
That is increasingly.
Dominated by.
Robotic systems.
Of all types.
But the Kremlin only supplies.
The new drones to.
“Priority sectors”, including Kursk.
The blogger explained.
That leaves units.
In other sectors.
To make do with drones.
That often don’t work.
That often don’t work.
— and when they do work.
Are promptly grounded.
By ‘elves’ jamming.
The ‘elves’ drone advantage.
Has become.
A tank advantage.
As the war has ground on.
It all comes.
Down to drones.
As is often the case.
In a war.
That is increasingly.
Dominated by.
Robotic systems.
Of all types.
‘Orcs’ anti-tank missiles.
Blunt this advantage.
But the main reason.
The ‘elves’ can’t leverage.
Their armored edge.
To roll back.
Recent ‘orcs’ gains.
May be.
A persistent shortage.
Of infantry.
“While they may lack.
The infantry.”
“To hold large areas.
... they remain.
A formidable opponent.”
The blogger warned.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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For The First Time Since 2022, Ukraine May Have The Tank Advantage
No.34
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS RAGING ON ENGELS
Whichever drone types.
Were involved.
The double-tap strike.
Had a clear aim.
— to constrain.
‘Orcs’ air raids.
On ‘elves’ cities.
Even if only temporarily.
On 8 January.
‘Elves’ drones.
Flew at least.
400 miles.
To strike near the ‘orcs’.
Air force’s Engels bomber base.
In the city of Saratov.
In southern ‘Mordor’.
The blasts triggered a blaze.
At a sprawling depot containing.
As much as 800,000 tons of fuel.
— a blaze that raged for days.
The fire finally burned.
Itself out.
Or firefighters extinguished it.
After six days.
Hours later on Tuesday.
Drones struck a second time.
“There will be no rest.
For the wicked,”was crowed.
Whichever drone types.
Were involved.
The double-tap strike.
Had a clear aim.
— to constrain.
‘Orcs’ air raids.
On ‘elves’ cities.
Even if only temporarily.
The Tuesday attack was.
Part of a wider wave.
Of drone raids.
Reportedly the biggest.
Of the 35-month.
Wider war for Ukraine.
That specifically targeted.
Fuel and munitions storage.
And oil refineries.
Among other targets.
“Each damaged ammunition depot.
Refinery, tank farm or.”
“Chemical plant weakens.
‘Mordor’’s ability.
To wage war against Ukraine.”
The ‘elves’ security service said.
Whichever drone types.
Were involved.
The double-tap strike.
Had a clear aim.
— to constrain.
‘Orcs’ air raids.
On ‘elves’ cities.
Even if only temporarily.
It’s unclear what types of.
Drone were involved.
In the back-to-back attacks.
On Engels.
But a journal mentioned.
The PD-2.
Beaver, Liutyi.
And UJ-22.
— all of which are.
Between six and.
10 feet long.
And propeller-driven.
Ukraine has developed.
A dizzying array of.
Long-range unmanned.
Aerial vehicles.
Including some based on.
Modified sport planes that.
Can range 800 miles with.
Hundreds of pounds of explosives.
Whichever drone types.
Were involved.
The double-tap strike.
Had a clear aim.
— to constrain.
‘Orcs’ air raids.
On ‘elves’ cities.
Even if only temporarily.
Engels is home to.
The ‘orcs’ air force’s.
Tupolev Tu-95 and.
Tu-160 strategic bombers.
Which routinely.
Strike Ukraine.
Strike Ukraine.
With cruise missiles.
Thousands of ‘elves’.
Have been killed.
And wounded.
In these missile raids.
“This storage facility.
Holds rare fuel.
For ‘orcs’ long-range.
Strategic bomber fleet.”
“That regularly rains.
A range of missiles.
Onto the people of Ukraine.”
Was explained.
Whichever drone types.
Were involved.
The double-tap strike.
Had a clear aim.
— to constrain.
‘Orcs’ air raids.
On ‘elves’ cities.
Even if only temporarily.
Blowing up a fuel depot.
Even twice.
Won’t stop.
The missile attacks.
— there are other bomber bases.
After all —
But it might slow the pace.
Of the attacks for a while.
And if ‘elves’ drones.
Continue striking.
And ‘orcs’ air defenses.
Do nothing to stop them.
The effect on ‘orcs’.
Bomber ops.
Might intensify.
The ‘elves’ smell blood.
— or, more accurately.
Burning aviation fuel.
Drones have struck Engels.
At least eight times.
Since ‘Mordor’ widened.
Its war on Ukraine.
In February.
2022.
Whichever drone types.
Were involved.
The double-tap strike.
Had a clear aim.
— to constrain.
‘Orcs’ air raids.
On ‘elves’ cities.
Even if only temporarily.
More strikes.
Are surely coming.
More strikes.
Are surely coming.
“Today, I held.
A staff meeting.”
‘Gandalf the Green’.
Announced on Monday.
“The key issue was.
The development of.
Our drones and all forms.
Of their usage.”
“There were reports on.
Production and contracts.
— from first-person-view drones.
To long-range ones —”
“As well as on solutions.
Aimed at more effectively.
Destroying the occupiers and.
Protecting the lives of our soldiers.”
Whichever drone types.
Were involved.
The double-tap strike.
Had a clear aim.
— to constrain.
‘Orcs’ air raids.
On ‘elves’ cities.
Even if only temporarily.
‘Gandalf the Green’ was.
Apparently presented ideas.
For new and presumably.
Improved drones.
“We have technological.
Proposals that.
Need to be implemented.”
He wrote.
Whether those proposals.
Had anything to do with.
The kinds of drones that.
Double-tapped Engels is unclear.
But don’t be shocked.
If they did.
But don’t be shocked.
If they did.
Whichever drone types.
Were involved.
The double-tap strike.
Had a clear aim.
— to constrain.
‘Orcs’ air raids.
On ‘elves’ cities.
Even if only temporarily.
As ‘orcs’ wider war.
On Ukraine.
Grinds toward.
Its fourth year.
The ‘elves’ are striking.
Deeper inside ‘Mordor’.
More frequently.
— and with greater effect.
And their ambition.
To strike even.
Deeper and more often.
Is growing.
Whichever drone types.
Were involved.
The double-tap strike.
Had a clear aim.
— to constrain.
‘Orcs’ air raids.
On ‘elves’ cities.
Even if only temporarily.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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Ukrainian Drones Flew 400 Miles To Double-Tap a Russian Bomber Base
No.35
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS MASSIVE
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
Ukraine struck.
Several targets.
Deep inside ‘Mordor’.
On Tuesday.
In what it says is.
Its “most massive” attack.
Its “most massive” attack.
Of the war so far.
Ammunition depots.
And chemical plants.
Were hit across.
Several regions.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
Some of which.
Were hundreds of.
Kilometres from.
The border.
The overnight attack.
Was a “painful blow”.
To ‘orcs’ ability.
To wage war.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
At least nine airports.
In central and western.
‘Mordor’ temporarily.
Halted traffic.
While the strikes.
Prompted schools in.
The southwestern Saratov region.
To close.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
Strikes in the border region.
Of Bryansk caused.
Explosions at a refinery.
Ammunition depots.
And a chemical plant.
Said to produce.
Gunpowder and explosives.
An ‘elves’ security source said.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
But Kyiv also struck.
Far deeper.
Into the country.
With the General Staff claiming.
To have hit targets.
Up to 1,100km.
Up to 1,100km.
From the border.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
In the western region.
Of Saratov.
Officials reported.
A “massive” drone attack.
Two industrial plants.
In the cities of Engels.
And Saratov were damaged.
The regional governor wrote.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
Last week.
Kyiv said it had struck.
An oil storage facility.
In Engels.
- prompting a days-long effort.
To tackle the blaze.
And the regional governor.
To declare a state of emergency.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
Officials in the western region.
Of Tula also reported.
An overnight attack.
There were no casualties.
Elsewhere.
A gas storage site.
Near Kazan was struck.
In a drone attack.
In the southwestern region.
Of Tatarstan.
Local officials said.
Without reporting any casualties.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
Ukraine said.
‘Orcs’ also launched.
Dozens of drones.
Across Ukraine overnight.
With multiple air raid alerts.
In and around Kyiv.
All but one were.
Shot down or lost.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
It was, Ukraine says.
A fiery night in ‘Mordor’.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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Ukraine strikes Russia overnight, claiming largest attack of war so far
No.36
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS HARRYING OUTSIDE KURDYUMIVKA
A solitary ‘orcs’ tank.
Rolling toward ‘elves’ lines.
In what one ‘elves’.
Drone group called.
“A very unfortunate suicide”.
“A very unfortunate suicide”.
Belies the perilous state.
Of the ‘orcs’ army.
As ‘orcs’ wider war.
On Ukraine.
Grinds toward.
Its fourth year.
In any event.
The solitary vehicle.
The solitary vehicle.
Didn’t get very far.
There are so many.
‘Elves’ drones everywhere.
All the time along.
The 800-mile front line.
In Ukraine and.
Western ‘Mordor’ that.
‘Orcs’ armored vehicles.
Can’t leave concealment.
Without drawing.
The drones’ lethal attention.
Without drawing.
The drones’ lethal attention.
Where the ‘orcs’ are.
Gaining ground.
— and to be clear.
They are gaining ground —
They’re mostly doing.
So on foot.
And suffering.
Staggering losses.
In any event.
The solitary vehicle.
The solitary vehicle.
Didn’t get very far.
On or just before Tuesday.
A lonely ‘orcs’ tank.
Traveled along.
A dirt road.
Toward the line of.
Contact outside.
The village of.
Kurdyumivka.
Three miles north of.
The ruins of Toretsk.
In eastern ‘elves’.
Donetsk Oblast.
‘Orcs’ field armies.
Are besieging.
The city of Pokrovsk.
Just south of Kurdyumivka.
And ‘orcs’ field armies.
Are also besieging.
The city of Chasiv Yar.
North of Kurdyumivka.
It’s unclear.
Which siege.
The up-armored tank.
Was supporting.
In any event.
The solitary vehicle.
The solitary vehicle.
Didn’t get very far.
“The fate of this piece.
Of iron was obvious.”
The ‘elves’ Phoenix.
Drone group reported.
“Our guys took it apart.
To the last detail.”
The sheer number.
Of drones.
That harried the tank.
Speaks to the abundance.
Of tiny flying robots.
Over the front line.
Four explosive FPV drones.
Chased down and.
Struck the tank.
Eventually immobilizing it.
A fifth drone.
A heavier bomber model.
Dropped grenades.
On the stranded tank.
To finally destroy it.
It’s unclear whether.
Any of the three or four.
‘Orcs’ crew survived.
In any event.
The solitary vehicle.
The solitary vehicle.
Didn’t get very far.
It’s hard to say.
Why the crew.
— or, more to the point.
The crew’s commander —
Believed a single tank.
Could cross open terrain.
In broad daylight within.
Easy reach of ‘elves’ drones.
One ‘orc’ blogger derisively.
Described ‘orcs’ tank commanders.
Who continue to order.
Mechanized attacks as “geniuses.”
In sending vehicles.
And their crews.
On pointless.
“Banzai attacks”.
Across the drone-patrolled.
No-man’s-land.
The tank commanders.
Gain nothing.
Lose everything and.
“Provide uplifting content.
For the armed forces.
Of Ukraine,” the blogger wrote.
In any event.
The solitary vehicle.
The solitary vehicle.
Didn’t get very far.
Sure enough.
The summary destruction of.
That lonely ‘orcs’ tank.
Became fodder.
For the Phoenix drone group’s.
Social media team.
That the ‘orcs’ can’t safely.
Deploy tanks any more.
Doesn’t mean.
They can’t continue.
Advancing toward.
Pokrovsk and Chasiv Yar.
It does mean.
They’ll probably.
Keep attacking.
On foot.
— and paying.
In blood.
For every yard.
They capture.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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‘Unfortunate Suicide’ For A Russian Crew On A One-Tank Assault
On this video: Ukrainian Drones Target the Kazan Aircraft Plant.
No.37
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS DIZZYING IN KAZAN
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
On 8 January.
‘Elves’ drones motored.
At least 400 miles.
To strike.
A sprawling fuel.
Storage facility.
Near the ‘orcs’ air force’s.
Engels bomber base.
In Saratov.
In southern ‘Mordor’.
Six days later.
Drones struck.
The same fuel depot again.
Stoking a blaze.
That continued to burn.
Days later.
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
Now ‘elves’ long-range.
Unmanned aerial vehicles.
Are going after.
The factory.
That builds and maintains.
Many of the ‘orcs’.
Air force’s bombers:
the Kazan Aircraft Plant.
In Kazan.
Around 700 miles.
From the front line.
In Ukraine.
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
Overnight on Sunday.
‘Orcs’ Telegram users.
Reported drones overhead.
— and a blast and fire.
At a fuel depot.
Near the factory.
“Lighting up the night sky.
In ‘Mordor’’s Kazan region.”
“Burning ‘orcs’ aircraft.
Manufacturing facilities.
For the production and repair of.
The long range strategic bombers.”
“That regularly rain missiles.
On the people of Ukraine.”
The ‘elves’ Center for.
Strategic Communication celebrated.
As the flames rose and.
Smoke billowed in Kazan.
The Sunday night strike was just.
Part of a wider wave of raids.
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
At the same time.
Kazan exploded.
‘Elves’ munitions.
— drones or missiles —
Struck a helicopter factory.
In the city.
As well as a fuel depot.
In Bryansk Oblast.
In southern ‘Mordor’.
Just 25 miles.
From Ukraine.
It’s unclear.
It’s unclear.
What types of drone.
Were involved.
In attacks on Kazan.
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
Ukraine has developed.
A dizzying array of.
Long-range UAVs.
Including some based on.
Modified A-22.
Sport planes.
The earlier Saratov raids.
May have involved.
The smaller PD-2.
Beaver, Liutyi and UJ-22.
— all of which are between.
Six and 10 feet long.
Propeller-driven.
Presumably GPS-guided and.
Capable of flying hundreds of.
Miles with explosive payloads.
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
It’s notable that.
So many of ‘elves’.
Recent deep strikes.
Have been targeting fuel depots.
The raids are.
A kind of corollary.
To the ongoing campaign.
Of strikes.
Targeting the ‘orcs’.
Oil industry.
— in particular.
Its refineries.
Oil doesn’t just fuel.
The ‘orcs’ war machine.
It’s also a main source of.
Revenue for the ‘orcs’ state.
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
Blowing up.
The fuel tanks.
Attached to ‘orcs’.
Bomber bases.
— and the industrial sites.
Associated with.
The bomber bases —
Probably can’t stop.
The ‘orcs’ bombardment.
Of ‘elves’ cities.
But it can make the bombardment.
Costlier for Moscow.
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
And blowing up.
Fuel tanks and factories.
Is easier than blowing up.
The bombers themselves.
The bombers.
— 120 Tupolev Tu-22Ms.
Tu-95s and.
Tu-160s —
Fly high and fast.
Launch their cruise missiles.
Hundreds of miles.
From ‘elves’ cities and.
When they are.
On the ground.
Are spread across.
Potentially dozens of bases.
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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Ukraine’s Drones Target A Russian Bomber Factory
No.38
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS SPOTTING
An ‘elves’ drone spotted.
An ‘orcs’ assault group.
Largely made up of men.
On crutches.
Limping into position.
To attack ‘elves’ positions.
Around Pokrovsk.
A fortress city.
In eastern Ukraine.
That’s the current locus of.
The ‘orcs’ war effort.
In the east.
There were rumors.
Several months ago that.
Some ‘orcs’ commanders were ordering.
Wounded men back into action.
Despite losing.
More than 800,000.
Troops killed and wounded.
In the first three years.
Of its wider war.
On Ukraine.
The ‘orcs’ military has still.
Managed to sustain.
A front-line force.
Of no fewer than.
600,000 troops.
In Ukraine and western ‘Mordor’.
There were rumors.
Several months ago that.
Some ‘orcs’ commanders were ordering.
Wounded men back into action.
That’s enough people.
To give ‘orcs’ field armies.
A manpower edge.
Over ‘elves’ forces.
Over ‘elves’ forces.
In all of the most.
Important sectors.
Of the wider war.
But that doesn’t mean.
The Kremlin isn’t struggling.
To generate.
Fresh troops.
There were rumors.
Several months ago that.
Some ‘orcs’ commanders were ordering.
Wounded men back into action.
At least one desperate.
‘Orcs’ command.
The 20th Combined Arms Army.
Has formed assault groups.
Made up of.
Walking wounded.
— including injured men.
Walking with the aid of crutches —
— including injured men.
Walking with the aid of crutches —
And sent them into battle.
With predictably tragic results.
There were rumors.
Several months ago that.
Some ‘orcs’ commanders were ordering.
Wounded men back into action.
Perhaps the first clear evidence.
Of the “crutch battalions”.
Appeared on social media.
Last week.
An ‘elves’ drone spotted.
An ‘orcs’ assault group.
Largely made up of men.
On crutches.
Limping into position.
To attack ‘elves’ positions.
Around Pokrovsk.
A fortress city.
In eastern Ukraine.
That’s the current locus of.
The ‘orcs’ war effort.
In the east.
There were rumors.
Several months ago that.
Some ‘orcs’ commanders were ordering.
Wounded men back into action.
Bomb-dropping drones.
Made quick work.
Of the attackers.
Ruthlessly slaughtering them.
Despite their injuries.
And their obviously.
Limited offensive potential.
What may at first.
Have seemed like.
An anomaly.
— a bizarre waste of lives.
Potentially ordered by.
— a bizarre waste of lives.
Potentially ordered by.
One cruel ‘orc’ commander —
Now seems more systemic.
There were rumors.
Several months ago that.
Some ‘orcs’ commanders were ordering.
Wounded men back into action.
On or just before Tuesday.
An ‘orc’ soldier from.
The 20th CAA recorded.
A video.
Of walking wounded.
Assembling for an assault.
In the forests.
Apparently outside Pokrovsk.
“Man is using.
Crutches for a mission.”
The soldier mused in the video.
“What the fuck?”
There were rumors.
Several months ago that.
Some ‘orcs’ commanders were ordering.
Wounded men back into action.
The proliferation.
Of crutch battalions.
Across at least one front of.
‘Orcs’ war on Ukraine.
The proliferation.
Belies the huge size.
Of the ‘orcs’ force.
In Ukraine.
Yes, there are 600,000.
‘Orcs’ in eastern and.
Southern Ukraine.
As well as around.
The small salient.
‘Elves’ troops occupy.
In western ‘Mordor’’s.
Kursk Oblast.
No, not all of those.
600,000 troops.
Are truly fit.
For combat.
There were rumors.
Several months ago that.
Some ‘orcs’ commanders were ordering.
Wounded men back into action.
The stress on the Kremlin’s.
Manpower system is.
Only growing as the expansion.
Of the ‘elves’ drone corps.
And ‘Mordor’’s loss.
Of 15,000 combat vehicles.
Compels ‘orcs’ commanders.
To hold back.
Their few surviving.
Modern tanks and.
Fighting vehicles.
And send in the infantry.
Instead — on foot and.
Often without.
A lot of support.
Infantry-first assaults work.
There were rumors.
Several months ago that.
Some ‘orcs’ commanders were ordering.
Wounded men back into action.
Individual soldiers.
Spread out on rough terrain.
Are harder targets for.
‘Elves’ ever-present drones.
Than mechanized groups.
With big, easy-to-spot.
Tanks and.
Fighting vehicles.
There were rumors.
Several months ago that.
Some ‘orcs’ commanders were ordering.
Wounded men back into action.
“Every single time”.
‘Orcs’ regiments.
Attempt a vehicle assault.
“The result is zero.”
One ‘orc’ blogger lamented.
Recently in a missive.
But “infantry.
With the support of.”
“Artillery and drones.
Slowly but surely.
Take tree line.
After tree line.”
There were rumors.
Several months ago that.
Some ‘orcs’ commanders were ordering.
Wounded men back into action.
The cost to the infantry.
Is staggering, however.
Daily ‘orcs’ casualties.
Have spiked.
As ‘orcs’ doctrine.
Has evolved to.
Favor infantry.
Over vehicles.
There were rumors.
Several months ago that.
Some ‘orcs’ commanders were ordering.
Wounded men back into action.
According to Gen.
The top ‘elf’ commander.
‘Mordor’ suffered.
434,000 casualties.
Including 150,000 dead.
In 2024.
That’s more killed and.
Injured ‘orcs’ troops.
That’s more killed and.
Injured ‘orcs’ troops.
Than in the previous.
Two years combined.
‘Elves’ losses are much lower:
43,000 killed.
And 370,000 injured.
In total.
Since February 2022.
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
In December.
‘Elves’ losses are much lower.
There were rumors.
Several months ago that.
Some ‘orcs’ commanders were ordering.
Wounded men back into action.
Attacking with infantry.
Rather than vehicles.
Leverages an ‘orcs’ asset.
— sheer manpower —
— sheer manpower —
But risks squandering.
That asset for the relatively.
Modest territorial gains.
That asset for the relatively.
Modest territorial gains.
The ‘orcs’ have registered.
In the last year.
There were rumors.
Several months ago that.
Some ‘orcs’ commanders were ordering.
Wounded men back into action.
People are.
A renewable resource.
But not quickly or.
Easily renewable.
That more ‘orcs’ are.
Limping into battle.
On crutches.
Is a clear sign.
The Kremlin is expending.
Its human resources.
Faster than.
It’s renewing them.
There were rumors.
Several months ago that.
Some ‘orcs’ commanders were ordering.
Wounded men back into action.
An ‘elves’ drone spotted.
An ‘orcs’ assault group.
Largely made up of men.
On crutches.
Limping into position.
To attack ‘elves’ positions.
Around Pokrovsk.
A fortress city.
In eastern Ukraine.
That’s the current locus of.
The ‘orcs’ war effort.
In the east.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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Wounded Russians Are Limping Into Battle On Crutches
No.39
Kurama
(Japan)
A POET TO OLESKYI CASTLE
How can I find a road to Oleskyi Castle?
The cold winds are whispering.
The moonshot at dawn.
How can I find a road to Oleskyi Castle?
The gray clouds are whispering.
The moonshot at dawn.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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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.