Consider what happened.
When a long column of.
‘Orcs’ vehicles.
Possibly belonging to.
The 3rd Motor Rifle Division.
Rolled toward the positions.
Of the ‘elves’ 3rd Assault Brigade.
Just west of Novovodyane.
Just west of Novovodyane.
—on the border of.
Donetsk and Kharkiv Oblasts—
On 21 November.
And dropped off.
Seemingly dozens of.
Infantry who then.
Advanced on foot.
The 3rd Assault Brigade’s.
Drones and artillery.
Harried the vehicles.
Destroying or.
Damaging several.
And then turned.
Their attention to.
The dismounted infantry.
Explosive first-person-view.
Drones barreled down.
Bigger bomber drones.
Hovered overhead.
Dropping grenades.
Cluster artillery popped open.
Scattering scores of.
Lethal submunitions.
When the dust and.
Smoke cleared.
The ‘orcs’ assault force was.
Scattered and smashed.
Dead infantry littered.
The road and fields.
The luckiest ‘orcs’.
Made it just.
A thousand feet.
From their apparent.
Start point.
In Novovodyane.
At no point.
Did they significantly.
Threaten the ‘elves’
3rd Assault Brigade’s positions.
The ‘orcs’ are going.
For broke.
—and accepting.
Massive casualties.
Daily tallies of.
Dead and wounded.
‘Orcs’ now routinely.
Exceed 1,500.
Total ‘orcs’ casualties.
After 33 months of.
Wider warfare in Ukraine.
Are somewhere.
Between 600,000.
And 730,000.
Many of the deaths.
Are the unavoidable price.
Exposed attackers.
Almost always suffer.
Greater casualties.
Than dug-in defenders.
But other losses.
Are preventable.
Consider that.
The ‘orcs’ assault group.
That tried to.
Make it out.
Of Novovodyane.
On 21 November.
Apparently didn’t.
Benefit from.
Significant artillery.
Or air support.
It didn’t even.
Bother popping.
Obscuring smoke.
As it advanced.
—a simple but effective.
Defense against drones.
—a simple but effective.
Defense against drones.
Dead infantry littered.
The road and fields.
The luckiest ‘orcs’.
Made it just.
A thousand feet.
From their apparent.
Start point.
In Novovodyane.
*Because I read “Commanders’ ‘Comprehensive Neglect’ Just Got A Lot Of Russian Infantry Killed In Eastern Ukraine” by David Axe on 28 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:
‘Comprehensive Neglect’ Just Got Lots Of Russian Infantry Killed
