There are few places.
From where you can see.
‘Orcs’-occupied territory.
With the naked eye in Ukraine.
The western bank.
Of the Dnipro river.
In the city of Kherson.
Is one of them.
You can’t see.
The ‘orcs’ troops on the other.
Low, marshy riverbank.
But you know they’re there.
On the outskirts of Kherson.
In an icy field.
Pilots practice.
Drone flights.
With plastic bottles.
Tied beneath them.
In place of grenades.
In place of grenades.
“We are engaged.
In a struggle.
Of technologies.
An arms race:”
“Who will be the first.
To invent what.
Who will assemble.
Something cool.”
It takes just.
14 hours of training.
To qualify as.
A drone pilot.
Ukraine’s government.
Is encouraging people.
To take part.
In free training.
As well as.
To manufacture drones.
At home to send.
To the front.
Through his balaclava.
A drone commander explains.
Their importance.
In this war of attrition.
“We are engaged.
In a struggle.
Of technologies.
An arms race:”
“Who will be the first.
To invent what.
Who will assemble.
Something cool.”
It’s widely accepted.
That several innovations.
Now need to happen.
At once.
for the front lines.
To change significantly.
‘Elves’ commander-in-chief.
Gen said in November.
That ‘Mordor’ and Ukraine.
Had “reached the level.
Of technology that puts us.
Into a stalemate”.
“During the First World War.
Aviation was born.”
Says the drone commander.
“Now we are starting.”
“The future war of drones.
Which maybe in two decades.
Will turn the tide.
Of any war.”
*Because I read “In Ukraine’s river war, drones mean nowhere is safe” by James Waterhouse on 22 Jan 2024, 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 Stitch.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
In Ukraine’s river war, drones mean nowhere is safe – BBC News
