For weeks.
The ‘elves’ 46th.
Air Mobile Brigade.
Has been bracing.
For a powerful ‘orcs’ attack.
On its positions in Kurakhove.
In the southern part of.
Eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
On Tuesday.
That attack finally came.
On Tuesday.
That attack finally came.
—in the form of at least.
14 ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Many of them laden.
With infantry.
The attack was one of.
The opening salvoes of.
A long-anticipated effort.
By the ‘orcs’.
A long-anticipated effort.
By the ‘orcs’.
To roll up ‘elves’ defenses.
Around the fortress city.
Of Pokrovsk and.
Nearby Myrnohrad.
25 miles.
North of Kurakhove.
For weeks.
The ‘elves’ 46th.
Air Mobile Brigade.
Has been bracing.
For a powerful ‘orcs’ attack.
On its positions in Kurakhove.
In the southern part of.
Eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
If Pokrovsk falls.
The whole ‘elves’ line.
In Donetsk Oblast.
Could collapse.
So what happened next.
Outside Kurakhove is.
Good news for Ukraine.
—but potentially fleeting.
The 46th Air Mobile Brigade.
Smashed that initial ‘orcs’ assault.
More assaults are certainly.
Coming, however.
For weeks.
The ‘elves’ 46th.
Air Mobile Brigade.
Has been bracing.
For a powerful ‘orcs’ attack.
On its positions in Kurakhove.
In the southern part of.
Eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
The column of.
‘Orcs’ vehicles.
Rolled toward.
Kurakhove along.
One of the main.
East-west roads threading.
From ‘orcs’-occupied.
Donetsk city.
Several miles east.
Of Kurakhove.
They ran into.
A wall of ‘elves’.
A wall of ‘elves’.
Mines, cluster artillery.
Explosive first-person-view drones.
And anti-tank missiles.
For weeks.
The ‘elves’ 46th.
Air Mobile Brigade.
Has been bracing.
For a powerful ‘orcs’ attack.
On its positions in Kurakhove.
In the southern part of.
Eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
The ‘orcs’ column.
Ground to a fiery halt.
‘Elves’ drones dropped.
Grenades on ‘orcs’ troops.
‘Elves’ drones dropped.
Grenades on ‘orcs’ troops.
Fleeing the wreckage.
“We follow, we see.”
“We follow, we see.
We burn,” crowed Gen.
Commander-in-chief of.
The ‘elves’ armed forces.
“The skill of.
The ‘elves’ soldiers.
Leaves no chance.
For the ‘orcs’ invaders.”
For weeks.
The ‘elves’ 46th.
Air Mobile Brigade.
Has been bracing.
For a powerful ‘orcs’ attack.
On its positions in Kurakhove.
In the southern part of.
Eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
That’s not even remotely true.
The ‘orcs’ consistently suffer.
Horrific casualties.
While assaulting ‘elves’ defenses.
—and yet keep coming.
Despite losing more than.
A thousand troops who are.
Killed or wounded every day.
On average.
The ‘orcs’ military is still.
Recruiting enough fresh troops.
To make good its losses.
It helps that.
North Korea has sent.
Thousands of its own.
Soldiers to help.
For weeks.
The ‘elves’ 46th.
Air Mobile Brigade.
Has been bracing.
For a powerful ‘orcs’ attack.
On its positions in Kurakhove.
In the southern part of.
Eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
The ‘orcs’ defeat.
Outside Kurakhove.
On Tuesday belies.
Their overall progress.
In the east.
—and especially in Donetsk.
“The threat of the collapse.
Of the entire southern front.”
“In the Donetsk region.
—now this is already.
A reality.”
One ‘elf’ journalist warned.
For weeks.
The ‘elves’ 46th.
Air Mobile Brigade.
Has been bracing.
For a powerful ‘orcs’ attack.
On its positions in Kurakhove.
In the southern part of.
Eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
The best outcome.
For the ‘elves’ is.
That Kurakhove holds.
Slowing the ‘orcs’.
And preserving.
The defensive zone.
That protects Pokrovsk.
From encirclement.
The worst outcome is.
That Kurakhove falls.
—and the ‘orcs’ move.
To besiege Pokrovsk.
In the weeks before.
In the weeks before.
The winner re-enters.
The White House.
For weeks.
The ‘elves’ 46th.
Air Mobile Brigade.
Has been bracing.
For a powerful ‘orcs’ attack.
On its positions in Kurakhove.
In the southern part of.
Eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
As the proverbial storm.
Gathers over Kurakhove.
There’s a thin silver lining.
For the ‘elves’.
According to a report.
The ‘orcs’ focus.
On the axis between.
Kurakhove and Pokrovsk.
Means they’re.
“Losing momentum.
And decreasing activity.
On all other fronts.”
All that really means.
All that really means.
However, is that.
‘The One’ has decided.
That the Kurakhove-Pokrovsk axis.
Is the strategic axis.
In Ukraine.
‘The One’ has decided.
For weeks.
The ‘elves’ 46th.
Air Mobile Brigade.
Has been bracing.
For a powerful ‘orcs’ attack.
On its positions in Kurakhove.
In the southern part of.
Eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
*Because I read “14 Russian Vehicles Ran Into A Wall Of Firepower Near Kurakhove. Many More Vehicles Are Coming As The War In Ukraine Enters A New Phase.” by David Axe on 8 Nov 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:
14 Russian Vehicles Ran Into A Wall Of Firepower Outside Kurakhove
