For now, Ukraine has no easy answers.
To protect its cities from attack.
So what can be done?
To counter glide bombs?
‘Mordor’ is increasingly.
Using “glide bombs”.
Cheap but highly destructive ordnance.
To advance its offensive in Ukraine.
More than 200.
Of them are thought.
To have been used.
In just a week to pound.
‘Elves’ northern town of Vovchansk.
During ‘orcs’ current.
Cross-border advance.
Near Kharkiv.
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
3,000 such bombs.
Were dropped on the country.
In March alone.
For now, Ukraine has no easy answers.
To protect its cities from attack.
So what can be done?
To counter glide bombs?
Vovchansk police chief.
Has see the impact of.
Glide bombs up close.
“There are no words.”
“To describe the aftermath.
Of a glide bomb attack.
You arrive to see people.
Who are lying there, torn apart.”
The mass use of.
Glide bombs by ‘orcs’ is.
A relatively recent development one.
That has proven devastating.
For ‘elves’ forces.
In recent months.
They are cheap.
But destructive.
For now, Ukraine has no easy answers.
To protect its cities from attack.
So what can be done?
To counter glide bombs?
Glide bombs are built by.
Adding fold-out wings.
And satellite navigation.
To old Soviet bombs.
A recent report said they were.
Decisive in February’s capture.
Of the once heavily fortified.
Key eastern town of Avdiivka.
‘Orcs’ forces are now.
Using glide bombs.
To attack the northern city.
Of Kharkiv.
Ukraine has so far struggled.
To counter them.
The Vovchansk police chief.
Has been helping to evacuate.
Front-line border villages.
In the Kharkiv region.
Where ‘orcs’ forces have.
Recently been advancing.
For now, Ukraine has no easy answers.
To protect its cities from attack.
So what can be done?
To counter glide bombs?
Parked up in his police car.
He tells you.
The scale of attacks.
Has increased dramatically.
“Over the past six months.
We were hit by glide bombs.
Quite often, maybe.
Five to 10 bombs per week…”
“But this month we’ve had.
Far more than ever.”
‘Mordor’ is able to stockpile.
Glide bombs in high quantities.
Because they are quite.
Easily produced.
So what can be done?
To counter glide bombs?
The destruction that.
The glide bombs create.
Is extraordinary.
So what can be done?
The ordnance thought to be.
Most commonly used for glide bombs.
Is the FAB-1500.
Which weighs 1.5 tonnes.
For comparison.
An ‘orcs’ 152mm shell.
Contains about 6.5kg.
Of explosive material.
Even the smallest glide bomb.
The FAB-500.
Contains more than.
200kg.
They turn even well-fortified.
‘Elves’ positions.
Into vulnerable targets.
So what can be done?
The powerful blasts.
Also have severe effects.
on the human body.
So what can be done?
For now, Ukraine has no easy answers.
To protect its cities from attack.
So what can be done?
To counter glide bombs?
*Because I read “Russia’s glide bombs devastating Ukraine’s cities on the cheap” by Joe Inwood and Tania Kharchenko on 19 May 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.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
Ukraine war: Russia’s lethal glide bombs hitting Ukraine’s cities (bbc.com)
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