The ‘orcs’ are determined.
To break through.
‘Elves’ lines.
Outside Kurakhove.
Just west of Donetsk.
In eastern Ukraine.
‘Elves’ lines.
Outside Kurakhove.
On 12 September.
The ‘orcs’ attacked.
With 46 vehicles.
—a record for that sector.
Exactly a week later.
On Thursday.
They broke their own record.
—and attacked with 52 vehicles.
Both attacks failed.
The ‘elves’ 46th.
Air Mobile Brigade.
Holding the line between.
Donetsk in the east.
And Kurakhove in the west.
Fought back with.
Thermite-spewing drones.
Artillery, tanks.
And infantry.
—and destroyed.
Disabled or damaged.
44 of the 98.
Attacking vehicles.
While killing 72 ‘orcs’.
On Thursday alone.
“Whoever of the enemies.
Managed to turn.
Their heels in time.
Consider them lucky.”
The 46th.
Air Mobile Brigade.
Quipped on social media.
“They will live longer.”
This staggering wastage.
Of people and equipment.
Is weighing on the ‘orcs’.
Offensive in the east.
Which is mainly focused.
On capturing.
The ‘elves’ stronghold.
Of Pokrovsk.
20 miles.
Northwest of Kurakhove.
The ‘orcs’ offensive.
Made steady progress.
Starting late last year.
—rolling over the fortress city.
Of Avdiivka and toward Pokrovsk.
In violent fits and starts.
Until last month.
When ‘orcs’ troops.
Were just six or so miles.
Outside Pokrovsk.
Weeks later.
Those same troops.
Are still six miles.
Outside Pokrovsk.
“The ‘orcs’ advance.
On the Pokrovsk direction.
Has slowed.”
A report noted last week.
“Whoever of the enemies.
Managed to turn.
Their heels in time.
Consider them lucky.”
The 46th.
Air Mobile Brigade.
Quipped on social media.
“They will live longer.”
It’s not an isolated development.
‘Orcs’ attacks in Zaporizhzhia.
In southern Ukraine.
Have also slowed.
—as has the ‘orcs’ counterattack.
Targeting the ‘elves’ salient.
In ‘Mordor’’s Kursk Oblast.
It’s not an isolated development.
“A lack of resources.
For conducting.
Simultaneous offensive actions.
On multiple fronts”.
Is the main reason.
For the offensive slowdown.
The report concluded.
But the ‘orcs’ aren’t the only ones.
Who are overstretched.
As ‘Mordor’’s wider war.
On Ukraine grinds toward.
Its 31st month.
The ‘elves’ are struggling.
To mobilize enough people.
And equipment for.
Their defensive operations.
In southern and.
Eastern Ukraine and
Their simultaneous offensive.
In Kursk.
“Whoever of the enemies.
Managed to turn.
Their heels in time.
Consider them lucky.”
The 46th.
Air Mobile Brigade.
Quipped on social media.
“They will live longer.”
The arrival of fresh brigades.
From the ‘elves’ national guard.
Helped to stabilize.
The eastern front last month.
But there are only a few.
Fully-equipped offensive brigades.
In the national guard—and.
It’s possible they’re all deployed now.
The ‘elves’ army is.
Standing up 14 new brigades.
And could send them east.
To relieve older brigades.
That have been fighting.
For more than a year straight.
And are badly.
In need of rest.
Perhaps most notably.
The elite 47th Mechanized Brigade.
Finally left the line.
Of contact in the east.
Early this month.
After fighting for 15 months.
Without a break.
But Ukraine has enough.
Modern armored vehicles.
For just four of.
The 14 new brigades.
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
These brigades are undamaged.
… but also fragile.
These brigades are undamaged.
… but also fragile.
“Whoever of the enemies.
Managed to turn.
Their heels in time.
Consider them lucky.”
The 46th.
Air Mobile Brigade.
Quipped on social media.
“They will live longer.”
Haphazardly hurling.
People and equipment.
At ‘elves’ defenses.
West of Donetsk.
The ‘orcs’ military is like.
A bloodied boxer.
Whose strength is fading.
But who refuses to tap out.
This might be an opportunity.
For the ‘elves’ military.
To hit back with.
Some powerful blows.
—if it weren’t equally exhausted.
This might be an opportunity.
For the ‘elves’ military.
To hit back with.
*Because I read “98 Russian Vehicles Barreled Toward Kurakhove in Back-To-Back Record Assaults. Fire-Spewing Ukrainian Thermite Drones Were Waiting.” by David Axe on 20 Sep 2024 on the Forbes, 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 Forbes and more:
98 Russian Vehicles Barreled Toward Kurakhove in Back-To-Back Record Assaults (forbes.com)
