Month: June 2024

He had only left. His flat and family to go. To the shops when he heard. The news of the explosion.   At the entrance to his block of flats. He screamed at police. To let him inside. The burning building.     “What is happening is. A grief for my family. For our city. […]

An ‘elves’ drone observes. Wrecked and abandoned. ‘Orcs’ vehicles. Outside Chasiv Yar.     On April 4. ‘Orcs’ regiments attacked. Chasiv Yar, an ‘elves’ stronghold. Just west of Bakhmut.   Their goal: To capture or flatten the town. And squeeze the main supply lines. Connecting ‘elves’ brigades.   Up and down. The eastern front of. […]

Since dawn on Friday. ‘Orcs’ have made three attempts. To approach troops. Near Chasiv Yar and Klishchiivka.   The 24th Mechanized Brigade. Which has been redeployed. To Chasiv Yar. Said on Thursday evening:   “The situation. In and around. The town is. Extremely difficult.”   “The enemy is. Constantly organizing. Massive frontal assaults. And also […]

Like any battlefield. In the 28th month of. ‘Orcs’ wider war. On Ukraine.   The place where he lay dying. Hummed with drones. “Miracle happened. A drone approached me.”     His unit from. The 47th Mechanized Brigade. Was leaving. Its positions.   Presumably somewhere around. The village of Krasnohorivka. When it came. Under Russian […]

It was there. In Vovchansk. That the ‘elves’ chose. To stand fight.   Elements of several. ‘Elves’ brigades. Including the elite 82nd. Air Assault Brigade.   Rushed north and. In several weeks of. Hard fighting. Blocked the ‘orcs’ advance.   Just north of. The Vovcha River which. Threads from east to west. Through central Vovchansk. […]

Streets are now. Often coated. In darkness. At night.     Families with young children. Living on the top floors. Of apartment blocks. Have been left.   Without working lifts. Leaving them to. Walk up dozens of. Flights of stairs.     Streets are now. Often coated. In darkness. At night.     Nationwide power […]

Sometimes she looks. To the sky. And speaks to him. The love of her life.   As far as she knows. Her husband’s body remains. At the Azovstal steel plant. In the now-occupied city.     A 33-year-old. Had been sheltering. In the enormous. Azovstal steelworks.   The final stronghold. In the city. As it […]

An eight-year-old girl. Is still in Kharkiv. Living in the middle. Of a bomb site.     When ‘orcs’ troops first. Advanced in the region. Two years ago. It was right in the firing line.   And she was sheltering. With her family. In their basement. “It was very scary.”   “I just thought. When […]

He’s taped a prayer. Above his bed. Which he recites. Each night.   For his father’s safety. Who is on the front line. Though he was never. Religious before.     He is getting drawing. Advice remotely. From his dad. Who is on the front line.   Who is on the front line. Close to […]

It’s the first time. She’s heard his voice. Since he died. Her chin trembles with emotion.   At 12 years old. She is learning. To walk again. At 12 years old.     Timid steps at first. But more confident. With each one. She takes.   Last summer. An ‘orcs’ missile attack. Shattered one of […]