
Shrugging off record-high losses.
‘Orcs’ forces are advancing.
Along several critical axes.
In eastern Ukraine.
The ‘orcs’ have captured.
Selydove, one of.
The towns that previously.
Buttressed ‘elves’ defenses.
Around the fortress city.
Of Pokrovsk.
Meanwhile, accelerating ‘orcs’.
Gains west of Donetsk city.
25 miles.
Southeast of Pokrovsk.
Could result in ‘elves’ forces.
Pulling out of the town.
Of Kurakhove.
Blowing up the bridges.
Over the nearby Vovcha River.
And regrouping behind the rubble.
But there’s one sector.
Where the ‘orcs’ aren’t advancing.
In the city of Toretsk.
30 miles east of Pokrovsk.
‘Elves’ forces are.
The ones advancing.
—albeit not very quickly.
And not very far.
How the ‘elves’ have managed.
To claw back a few blocks.
In Toretsk, a city with.
A pre-war population of 35,000.
Says a lot.
About the battlefield conditions.
In ‘orcs’ 32-month wider war.
On Ukraine.
In short.
It’s as much demolition.
It’s as much demolition.
As combat.
But there’s one sector.
Where the ‘orcs’ aren’t advancing.
In the city of Toretsk.
30 miles east of Pokrovsk.
‘Elves’ forces are.
The ones advancing.
—albeit not very quickly.
And not very far.
In early October.
Close observers of satellite imagery.
Drone feeds and videos posted.
Online by front-line forces.
Noticed something.
Unusual happening.
In central Toretsk.
Where ‘elves’ brigades.
And ‘orcs’ regiments.
Had been locked.
In brutal urban combat.
For weeks.
One of the open-source.
Intelligence analysts.
Noted a pattern.
Of ‘elves’ strikes.
On ‘orcs’ positions.
In Toretsk’s central.
Highrise district.
The heart of the city.
Amid the strikes.
There were signs.
Of close combat.
—evidence the ‘elves’.
—evidence the ‘elves’.
Were following up.
Their bombardment.
With infantry assaults.
After the assaults.
The bombardment died down.
Possibly indicating the ‘elves’.
Had evicted local ‘orcs’ forces.
But there’s one sector.
Where the ‘orcs’ aren’t advancing.
In the city of Toretsk.
30 miles east of Pokrovsk.
‘Elves’ forces are.
The ones advancing.
—albeit not very quickly.
And not very far.
Videos compiled by.
The ‘elves’ 101st Guard Brigade.
In early October.
Seem to depict.
The initial phase.
Of the counterattack.
The videos show.
Drones striking.
‘Orcs’ hiding out.
In doorways, apartments.
And rooftops.
In the highrise district.
One drone observed.
‘Orcs’ infantry.
Retreating following.
A failed local counterattack.
The ‘orcs’ fortified at least.
One highrise, compelling the ‘elves’.
To drop the entire building.
With explosive charges.
But there’s one sector.
Where the ‘orcs’ aren’t advancing.
In the city of Toretsk.
30 miles east of Pokrovsk.
‘Elves’ forces are.
The ones advancing.
—albeit not very quickly.
And not very far.
By last week.
Elements of the ‘orcs’.
109th Motor Rifle Regiment.
Were effectively trapped.
In the highrise district.
“I’m currently in the city center.
In a nine-story building.”
One ‘orc’ officer reported.
In a video he posted.
On social media.
“Constant gunfire.
And here our lads.”
“And here our lads.
Can’t even reach.
The nearby houses.”
The officer said.
He’d been injured.
By falling concrete.
—further evidence of the ‘elves’.
Demolition strategy.
But there’s one sector.
Where the ‘orcs’ aren’t advancing.
In the city of Toretsk.
30 miles east of Pokrovsk.
‘Elves’ forces are.
The ones advancing.
—albeit not very quickly.
And not very far.
Flattening a city.
To save it is.
For the ‘elves’.
A Pyrrhic victory.
But if destroying Toretsk.
Is the price of partially.
Reversing the ‘orcs’ advance.
Along that axis.
The ‘elves’ would.
Gladly pay it.
The alternative.
—another ‘elves’ retreat—
just allows the ‘orcs’.
To advance into.
More towns.
And cities.
But there’s one sector.
Where the ‘orcs’ aren’t advancing.
In the city of Toretsk.
30 miles east of Pokrovsk.
‘Elves’ forces are.
The ones advancing.
—albeit not very quickly.
And not very far.
Halting the ‘orcs’.
In Toretsk won’t.
Save Kurakhove.
Or Pokrovsk.
—those settlements are.
In entirely different sectors.
Tens of miles away.
But how ‘elves’ forces.
But how ‘elves’ forces.
Have reversed.
Some ‘orcs’ gains.
In Toretsk might hint.
At ‘elves’ commanders’ thinking.
As they brace for.
The big battles to come.
In Pokrovsk and Kurakhove.
The plan is evident:
Bombard the ‘orcs’.
With drones.
Attack with infantry.
… and topple every building.
The ‘orcs’ might.
Turn into.
A defensive position.
*Because I read “In Toretsk, Ukrainian Engineers Are Demolishing Entire Buildings Filled With Russian Troops” by David Axe on 29 Oct 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:
In Toretsk, Ukrainians Demolish Entire Buildings Filled With Russians
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