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If you and your comrades.

Are gathering out in the open.

In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.

There’s a good chance.

 

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

 

 

For at least.

The sixth time.

In eight months.

‘Orcs’ troops gathered out.

 

In the open for.

Training or inspection.

Within range of ‘elves’.

American-made artillery rockets.

 

And for at least.

The sixth time.

In eight months.

‘Elves’ batteries hit.

 

The assembled ‘orcs’ with.

Rockets packed with hundreds of.

Grenade-sized submunitions.

—inflicting terrible carnage.

 

 

If you and your comrades.

Are gathering out in the open.

In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.

There’s a good chance.

 

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

 

 

The most recent strike.

Apparently took place.

This week.

At an outdoor gun range.

 

In Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

In southern Ukraine.

An ‘elves’ surveillance drone.

Observed around.

 

15 ‘orcs’ soldiers.

Practicing with their weapons.

—and passed along.

The coordinates to elements of.

 

The 27th Rocket Artillery Brigade.

The ‘elves’ army’s sole unit.

Operating American-made High Mobility.

Artillery Rocket Systems launchers.

 

 

If you and your comrades.

Are gathering out in the open.

In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.

There’s a good chance.

 

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

 

 

The wheeled HIMARS.

Opened fire with at least one.

M30/31 rocket packing.

400 grenade-sized bomblets.

 

The first rocket scored.

A direct hit.

The drone observed at least.

One bomblet exploding.

 

Directly where.

An ‘orc’ trainee was standing.

The death toll could be.

Catastrophic for.

 

The targeted unit.

‘Orcs’ troops routinely.

Conduct training out.

In the open within range.

 

Of ‘elves’ best American-made rockets.

Including the GPS-guided.

M30/31s.

This risky practice reflects.

 

A lack of professionalism.

In an army that’s been losing.

More than a thousand people.

Every day on average in Ukraine.

 

And letting its standards slip.

As it rushes 30,000.

New recruits to the front line.

Each month.

 

 

If you and your comrades.

Are gathering out in the open.

In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.

There’s a good chance.

 

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

 

 

In mid-September.

A HIMARS raid on.

An ‘orcs’ training facility.

In the Petrovskiy district of Donetsk.

 

In eastern Ukraine.

15 miles from the front line.

Left at least a dozen.

‘Orcs’ dead.

 

HIMARS had struck.

‘Orcs’ training grounds.

In the same area.

At least twice.

 

Before since February.

Killing around 100 people.

Two more ‘elves’ rocket strikes.

In the same period.

 

—one each in southern and.

Northeastern Ukraine—

Added at least another 150.

‘Orcs’ trainees to the death toll.

 

 

If you and your comrades.

Are gathering out in the open.

In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.

There’s a good chance.

 

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

 

 

Surveillance drones are.

Everywhere all the time along.

The 700-mile front line of ‘orcs’.

31-month wider war on Ukraine.

 

And all of ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.

Is within the 57-mile range of.

The 650-pound.

M30/31 rocket.

 

Or the 190-mile range of.

The 3,700-pound M39 rocket.

—the latter fired by ‘elves’.

Tracked M270 launchers.

 

 

If you and your comrades.

Are gathering out in the open.

In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.

There’s a good chance.

 

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

 

 

This dynamic works.

Against the ‘elves’, too.

All of Ukraine is within range.

Of ‘orcs’ drones and missiles.

 

But there’s much more evidence.

Of ‘elves’ strikes on.

Exposed ‘orcs’ trainees.

Than there is evidence.

 

Of ‘orcs’ strikes on.

Exposed ‘elves’ trainees.

Sloppy and inexperienced.

‘Orcs’ commanders might be at fault.

 

But it’s also possible.

The commanders just.

Don’t care whether.

Their trainees are in danger.

 

A report noted.

“A callous disregard for.

The lives of ‘orcs’ own.

Soldiers throughout.”

 

“The war thus far.

Both within ‘Mordor’ and.

Amongst ‘orcs’ troops.

On the battlefield.”

 

 

If you and your comrades.

Are gathering out in the open.

In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.

There’s a good chance.

 

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

 

 

Incredibly.

It happened again.

‘Orcs’ troops gathered for.

Training out in the open.

 

Within range of ‘elves’.

Best artillery, apparently.

In Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

In ‘orcs’-occupied southern Ukraine.

 

An ‘elves’ drone spotted.

The trainees and relayed.

The coordinates to.

An ‘elves’ HIMARS battery.

 

A 660-pound rocket.

Packed with hundreds of.

Grenade-sized submunitions.

Streaked down.

 

Peppering the ‘orcs’.

With lethal fragments.

The Wednesday strike on.

‘Orcs’ forces in Zaporizhzhia.

 

Came just days after.

A separate ‘elves’ raid.

On ‘orcs’ trainees.

In the same oblast.

 

 

If you and your comrades.

Are gathering out in the open.

In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.

There’s a good chance.

 

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

 

 

Altogether, there have been.

No fewer than seven raids.

On ‘orcs’ trainees all along.

The 700-mile front line since February.

 

Potentially hundreds.

Of ‘orcs’ have died.

Like the strike that.

Preceded it.

 

The most recent ‘elves’ strike.

Targeted ‘orcs’ troops.

At what appears to be.

A shooting range.

 

As an ‘elves’ drone.

Watched from overhead.

Dozens of ‘orcs’ gathered.

In broad daylight on a clear day.

 

An ‘elves’ rocket, apparently.

An American-made M30/31.

Packing 400 bomblets.

Scored a direct hit.

 

The drone lingered.

The drone lingered.

Observing the ‘orcs’ survivors.

—and the ‘orcs’ bodies.

 

 

If you and your comrades.

Are gathering out in the open.

In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.

There’s a good chance.

 

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

 

 

The raid says as much about.

‘Elves’ growing deep-strike.

Capabilities as it does about.

‘Orcs’ commanders’ negligence.

 

In attempting to conduct.

Training within.

The 57-mile range of.

The GPS-guided M30/31 rockets.

 

The drone that provided.

The intelligence for the Wednesday raid.

Reportedly belonged to.

The Black Forest drone group.

 

Which operates ‘elves’-made.

Shark unmanned aerial vehicles.

“Artillery has radically.

Transformed thanks to UAVs.”

 

A Black Forest sergean said.

“Before drones appeared.

Artillery and multiple-launch.

Rocket systems were used.”

 

“In batteries of six to 12 machines.

To simply bombard entire areas.

Now, the launchers and guns.

Fire one by one.”

 

“Now, the launchers and guns.

Fire one by one.”

Because UAVs allow for.

Precise fire adjustment.”

 

 

If you and your comrades.

Are gathering out in the open.

In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.

There’s a good chance.

 

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

 

 

As recently as September.

The Black Forest group was.

In Pokrovsk.

A fortress city in eastern Ukraine.

 

Launching the 28-pound.

Camera-equipped Sharks.

From Pokrovsk.

The group helped hunt down.

 

The group helped hunt down.

‘Orcs’ air defense batteries.

Protecting the assault groups.

Attacking toward the city.

 

This week’s strike.

In the south seems to indicate.

The Black Forest group has moved to.

A different sector of the front line.

 

—or has at least detached.

Some of its drones.

And drone operators.

To work in the south.

 

 

If you and your comrades.

Are gathering out in the open.

In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.

There’s a good chance.

 

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

 

 

For the Wednesday attack.

The drone crews reportedly.

Teamed up with.

The ‘elves’ army’s.

 

128th Mountain Brigade.

Which has been holding.

The line in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

For a year now.

 

The Black Forest group’s.

Shark drones are.

Recent acquisitions.

Kyiv tech firm designed.

 

The catapult-launched.

Propeller-driven Shark.

In the immediate aftermath.

Of ‘orcs’ wider attack on Ukraine.

 

In February 2022.

The company realized.

Its best drones.

Including the PD-2.

 

Were too sophisticated.

And expensive for.

The demands of.

A full-scale war.

 

 

If you and your comrades.

Are gathering out in the open.

In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.

There’s a good chance.

 

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

 

 

“We decided to minimize.

The complex features.

We developed for.

The PD-2.”

 

“And provide a highly simplified.

Mass-producible drone.”

The head of the company said.

“However, it still.”

 

“However, it still.

Needed to be of.

Sufficient quality to.

Perform all the tasks.”

 

“Required for reconnaissance.

And artillery fire adjustment.”

Ranging as far as.

50 miles under radio control.

 

A Shark neatly matches.

The range of.

The M30/31 rocket.

A Shark neatly matches.

 

 

If you and your comrades.

Are gathering out in the open.

In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.

There’s a good chance.

 

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

 

 

Shark drones and.

HIMARS launchers make.

A deadly team; together.

They are extending.

 

The reach of ‘elves’ strikes.

—and making them more precise.

Early in the war.

The Black Forest group flew.

 

Most of its surveillance missions.

Within just a few miles.

Of the front line.

That’s changing.

 

“We are actually no longer.

Interested in a 12-mile range.”

A Black Forest officer said.

“Our task is.”

 

“Our task is.

As we call it.

Is low deep strikes;

Up to 19 miles and beyond.”

 

 

If you and your comrades.

Are gathering out in the open.

In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.

There’s a good chance.

 

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

 

 

The implication is that.

The ‘orcs’ training session.

That got rocketed.

On Wednesday took place.

 

No farther than 20 miles.

From the front line.

That’s recklessly close given.

How far M30/31 rockets.

 

Can travel—and how deadly.

Even one of the rockets.

Can be against.

Exposed troops.

 

 

If you and your comrades.

Are gathering out in the open.

In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.

There’s a good chance.

 

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

‘Elves’ forces are watching.

… and taking aim.

 

 

*Because I read “For The Sixth Time In Eight Months, Russian Troops Gathered For Training Within Range Of Ukraine’s Best Rockets—And Got Blasted” on 27 Sep 2024, and “It Happened Again. Russian Troops Gathered For Training. A Ukrainian Drone Watched—And A Ukrainian Rocket Streaked Down.” on 17 Oct 2024, by David Axe 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, including a story of Petro, a story of Dmytro Khasapov, and a story of Kostiantyn.
Please read the original stories on the Forbes:

Russian Troops Gathered for Training Within Range Of Ukraine’s Rockets (forbes.com)

Russians Met For Training, Again. A Ukrainian Rocket Struck, Again. (forbes.com)

 

 

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