They appeared.
Seemingly out of.
Thin air starting.
On Wednesday:
A few ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Rolling south along.
The main road.
Into Kupyansk.
A city with.
A pre-war population of.
26,000.
Along the front line.
In Kharkiv Oblast.
In northeastern Ukraine.
The ‘elves’ expect.
The ‘orcs’.
To repeatedly attack.
In small assault groups:
It’s the ‘orcs’.
Standard tactic.
As their wider war.
On Ukraine.
Grinds toward.
Its fourth year.
The ‘elves’ didn’t expect.
The ‘orcs’ to deploy.
That tactic.
In Kupyansk, however.
They appeared.
Seemingly out of.
Thin air starting.
On Wednesday:
A few ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Rolling south along.
The main road.
Into Kupyansk.
The city is 100 miles.
From each of.
The main loci of.
The wider war:
Kursk Oblast in western ‘Mordor’.
And the area around the ‘elves’.
Fortress city of Pokrovsk.
In eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
So it came as.
A surprise to.
The ‘elves’ 114th.
Territorial Defense Brigade.
And adjacent units.
When those ‘orcs’.
Vehicles showed up.
In northern Kupyansk.
It seems they traveled.
Several miles from.
Their original positions.
To arrive in the city.
They appeared.
Seemingly out of.
Thin air starting.
On Wednesday:
A few ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Rolling south along.
The main road.
Into Kupyansk.
Drones eliminated.
The infiltrating ‘orcs’.
But that’s little comfort to.
The rattled defenders of Kupyansk.
It was claimed.
The ‘orcs’ sneaked.
Into the city dressed.
In ‘elves’ uniforms.
But at least one ‘elf’.
Soldier wasn’t content with.
Such a pat explanation.
For the infiltration.
“There are no.
Simple answers to.
Difficult questions.”
He wrote.
They appeared.
Seemingly out of.
Thin air starting.
On Wednesday:
A few ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Rolling south along.
The main road.
Into Kupyansk.
He retrospectively.
Sensed changes.
In the balance of power.
Around Kupyansk.
“Back in June-July.
As well as at the end of spring.
‘Elves’ forces gave.
The ‘orcs’ a normal tax there.”
‘Orcs’ would attack.
In groups of 10 or so.
Usually on foot.
—and promptly get wiped out.
The situation changed.
As summer wore into fall.
“In recent months.
This direction resembled chaos.”
“With the absence of.
A solid line.
With a torn front.
With an ‘orcs’ army.”
“That one to two men.
At a time.
Seeped deep.
Into our rear.”
They appeared.
Seemingly out of.
Thin air starting.
On Wednesday:
A few ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Rolling south along.
The main road.
Into Kupyansk.
‘Elves’ forces are tired.
And stretched thin.
All along the 800-mile.
Front line of the wider war.
But that’s not.
The only reason for.
The shift in momentum.
In the ‘orcs’ favor.
‘Orcs’ infantry.
Are no longer.
Just sitting.
In their trenches.
Most of the time.
Waiting for.
‘Elves’ drones.
To dive down on them.
The ‘orcs’ regiments.
North of Kupyansk.
Always had.
Enough infantry.
Even if.
Those infantry.
Were directionless.
And demoralized.
More recently.
The regiments “came up.
With motivation.
For that infantry.”
They appeared.
Seemingly out of.
Thin air starting.
On Wednesday:
A few ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Rolling south along.
The main road.
Into Kupyansk.
The source of.
That motivation.
Should be obvious.
Anticipating that.
U.S. President-elect winner.
Will lean on Ukraine.
To agree to an armistice.
That hands ‘Mordor’.
Control of any.
‘Elves’ territory it occupies.
‘The One’ has ordered.
His troops to go all out.
—and grab as much of Ukraine.
As they can as fast as.
They can ahead of.
The winner’s January inauguration.
They appeared.
Seemingly out of.
Thin air starting.
On Wednesday:
A few ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Rolling south along.
The main road.
Into Kupyansk.
It was predicted.
‘The One’ will reinforce.
The Kursk and Pokrovsk sectors.
At the expense of Kupyansk.
For that reason.
“The prospects for a large-scale.
Offensive by the enemy.
Remain unclear” in the city.
But that doesn’t change.
The fact that.
A bunch of ‘orcs’.
Rolled into Kupyansk.
In recent days.
Without ‘elves’ troops.
Spotting them.
In advance.
“The results.
At the tactical scale.
Are already visible.”
The ‘elf’ soldier wrote.
What happens.
What happens.
On the wider scale.
Remains to be seen.
They appeared.
Seemingly out of.
Thin air starting.
On Wednesday:
A few ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Rolling south along.
The main road.
Into Kupyansk.
*Because I read “How Did Russian Vehicles Infiltrate Kupyansk? Somehow The Russians ‘Came Up With Motivation.’” by David Axe on 14 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, including a story of Yury Gorskyi and reports of the Center for Defense Strategies.
Please read the original story on the Forbes:
How Did Russians Infiltrate Kupyansk? They ‘Came Up With Motivation.’
