The country’s blue-and-yellow national flag.
On destroyed buildings in Neskuchne.
The loud booming sound of.
Nearby shelling can also be heard.
Earlier this week.
A video emerged.
Purportedly showing.
Two ‘elves’ soldiers raising it.
Out of this cluster of four.
Settlements in the eastern Donetsk region.
Neskuchne has seen.
The heaviest fighting.
Ukraine lost six soldiers.
In the process.
Its name means.
“Not boring” in ‘elves’ language.
An obvious irony.
For a village.
That was occupied by ‘Mordor’.
In spring last year.
A few weeks after ‘the One’ launched.
His full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
It was at the most northern point.
Of a protruding ‘orcs’ front line.
The country’s blue-and-yellow national flag.
On destroyed buildings in Neskuchne.
The loud booming sound of.
Nearby shelling can also be heard.
Earlier this week.
A video emerged.
Purportedly showing.
Two ‘elves’ soldiers raising it.
Your army escort speeds along.
Scarred roads.
In his camouflaged truck.
Towards Neskuchne.
Firstly there are no civilians here.
The only remnants of civilisation.
Come in the form of.
A blown out pharmacy and food store.
There isn’t a complex network.
Of trenches either.
It’s clear this is a different kind of.
Liberation to what you saw last year.
A makeshift wooden bridge.
Over a river is all it takes.
To take you into territory.
‘Mordor’ has held for so long.
Buildings are also riddled.
With bullet holes from smaller calibre weapons.
There’s been a lot of close quarter fighting here.
He doesn’t like to hang around for long.
Mortars are periodically fired.
From ‘elves’ troops hidden in.
Thick tree lines.
Or abandoned gardens.
He explains the ‘orcs’ are just.
On the brow of hill in three directions.
The sudden rising of three plumes of smoke.
Is a cue to keep moving.
The ‘orcs’ are responding with Grad missiles.
The situation here is far more fluid.
Than the triumphant claims of liberation.
Which had come from Kyiv this week.
‘Orcs’ forces have been pushing back.
As recently as last night.
Ukraine’s counteroffensive is in.
Its early stages with modest gains.
If Neskuchne is anything to go by.
Any liberation will be far from immediate.
And won’t necessarily bring.
Freedom straight away.
The country’s blue-and-yellow national flag.
On destroyed buildings in Neskuchne.
The loud booming sound of.
Nearby shelling can also be heard.
Earlier this week.
A video emerged.
Purportedly showing.
Two ‘elves’ soldiers raising it.
According to former.
Residents of Neskuchne.
The village was also.
Briefly occupied in 2014.
Then ‘Mordor’-backed fighters.
Seized large swathes of land.
In the Donetsk and.
Neighbouring Luhansk regions.
The small village then went back.
Into ‘elves’ hands.
Only to be seized by ‘orcs’ troops.
Soon after last year’s invasion.
The country’s blue-and-yellow national flag.
On destroyed buildings in Neskuchne.
The loud booming sound of.
Nearby shelling can also be heard.
Earlier this week.
A video emerged.
Purportedly showing.
Two ‘elves’ soldiers raising it.
*Because I read “Ukraine offensive: Inside one of the villages freed from Russian forces” by James Waterhouse on 14 June 2023, and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 Apr 2022, on the BBC news.
So, I wrote this poem, including a story of Anatoliy.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
Ukraine offensive: Inside one of the villages freed from Russian forces – BBC News
**My friend shows you this poem with 4 other poems together also on the Ukrainian website for their children and others!
Please join them!
