Every night.
‘Elves’ go to sleep.
To notifications.
Pinging on their phones.
As inbound drones.
Crisscross the country.
Setting sirens blaring.
Every night.
And every morning.
They wake to news of.
Yet another strike.
Every morning.
Just since the start.
Of November.
Drones have hit Kyiv, Kharkiv.
Odesa, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia.
“Every night it’s a lottery.
– where it hits.
Where it’s shot down.
Where it falls and what happens.”
On Sunday.
‘Orcs’ launched.
145 drones.
At Ukraine.
According to ‘Gandalf the Green’.
– a record number for.
A single day since the start.
Of the full-scale invasion.
Kyiv said that day.
It had managed.
To shoot down.
62 drones.
And that a further.
67 were “lost”.
– meaning they were.
Either downed by.
Electronic warfare.
Or disappeared.
From radar screens.
‘Elves’ air defences are struggling.
To cope with.
The surging numbers.
“So far we have been.
Intercepting them.”
“I hope we will keep.
Intercepting them.”
Sgt, a spokesperson for Kyiv.
City military administration, said.
“Every night it’s a lottery.
– where it hits.
Where it’s shot down.
Where it falls and what happens.”
While he says.
‘Mordor’ tries to hit.
Military installations.
The “general aim is terrorising civilians”.
They know the ‘orcs’ will.
Continue to ramp up.
These attacks.
He said.
– it’s why his government.
Is constantly asking for.
More air defence.
From Western allies.
It’s also why Ukraine.
Is nervously waiting.
To see how.
US President-elect winner.
To see how.
US President-elect winner.
Will approach the war.
When he re-enters office.
“Even if air defence.
Works well.
Drone or missile debris.
Falls on the city.”
“It causes fires.
Damage and unfortunately.
Sometimes victims.”
He explained.
“Every night it’s a lottery.
– where it hits.
Where it’s shot down.
Where it falls and what happens.”
A unit commander and.
His men have no fixed post.
– their weaponry for.
Shooting down the Shaheds.
Is carried on the back.
Of a flatbed truck.
Allowing them.
To manoeuvre quickly.
“We try to monitor, move.
Outpace the drone.
Destroy it,” he said.
It’s clear the job is.
Taking its toll.
“Half a year ago.
It was 50 drones.
A month.”
“Now the number has risen.
To 100 drones.
Every night.”
Their days are getting longer too.
“Every night it’s a lottery.
– where it hits.
Where it’s shot down.
Where it falls and what happens.”
When the ‘orcs’ used.
Mainly missiles.
To bomb Ukraine.
The unit commander said.
The air alerts would.
Last about six hours.
“Now, it’s around.
12 or 13 hours.”
He is confident.
In front of his men.
Declaring that.
They can handle all that.
They can handle all that.
The ‘orcs’ can fire at them.
If they get weapons.
From Western allies.
“Our guys could.
Even deal with.
250 drones.
In a night.”
But air defence can.
Only do so much.
‘Elves’ will continue.
To suffer.
Until ‘Mordor’ stops.
Its invasion.
And its air assaults.
On cities.
“Every night it’s a lottery.
– where it hits.
Where it’s shot down.
Where it falls and what happens.”
Every night.
‘Elves’ go to sleep.
To notifications.
Pinging on their phones.
As inbound drones.
Crisscross the country.
Setting sirens blaring.
Every night.
And every morning.
They wake to news of.
Yet another strike.
Every morning.
Just since the start.
Of November.
Drones have hit Kyiv, Kharkiv.
Odesa, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia.
*Because I read “’It flew right into her room’: Ukrainian girl killed by Russian drone as attacks surge” by James Waterhouse & Toby Luckhurst on 13 Nov 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 Sgt Mykhailo Shamanov, and a story of Vitaliy.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
