As part of Defenders Day.
‘Gandalf the Green’ paid tribute to.
Those who had been killed.
In the fighting, saying:
“You sacrifice yourselves.
So that Ukraine.
Does not have to.
Be sacrificed.”
Her partner served as.
An army medic treating people.
During the devastating siege.
Of Mariupol.
Before he was captured.
By ‘orcs’ troops.
“I have a daughter.
She’s five years old.”
“So I think she helps.
Me a lot.
Because she’s my sense.
Now to live.”
“I need to be strong.
And I need to be now.
A mother and a father.
In one person.”
As part of Defenders Day.
‘Gandalf the Green’ paid tribute to.
Those who had been killed.
In the fighting, saying:
“You sacrifice yourselves.
So that Ukraine.
Does not have to.
Be sacrificed.”
Her partner was one of dozens.
Who died in the July.
2022 explosion.
At Olenivka prison.
Which Kyiv believes.
Was a deliberate attempt.
By ‘Mordor’ to destroy.
Evidence of war crimes.
Which Kyiv believes.
Was a deliberate attempt.
Although Moscow blamed.
‘Elves’ missiles.
For countless ‘elves’ families.
Remembrance is.
A private act.
As well as a public one.
As part of Defenders Day.
‘Gandalf the Green’ paid tribute to.
Those who had been killed.
In the fighting, saying:
“You sacrifice yourselves.
So that Ukraine.
Does not have to.
Be sacrificed.”
She says she wants.
To her daughter.
To remember.
Her father:
“What he did for us and.
Everything we have now.
Is because of him.
He was protecting us.”
As part of Defenders Day.
‘Gandalf the Green’ paid tribute to.
Those who had been killed.
In the fighting, saying:
“You sacrifice yourselves.
So that Ukraine.
Does not have to.
Be sacrificed.”
*Because I read “Six dead in market attack as Ukraine remembers war dead” by Jessica Parker on 1 Oct 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 Yuliya and Bogdan.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
Six dead in market attack as Ukraine remembers war dead (bbc.com)