The North Korean.
11th Army Corps lost.
Around 200 troops.
Killed and wounded.
In a series of assaults.
Targeting ‘elves’ positions.
In western ‘Mordor’’s.
Kursk Oblast last weekend.
A reindeer.
A Santa.
An elf.
A bird.
At least a few of those.
Casualties were inflicted by.
Explosive FPV drones.
Wearing Christmas ornaments.
Videos of the festive.
Drone strikes.
Conducted by the ‘elves’.
8th Special Purpose Regiment.
Deployed to.
The southwestern edge of.
The 250-square-mile salient.
The ‘elves’ carved out .
Of Kursk.
Back in August.
Appeared online.
On Tuesday.
The ‘elves’ drone operators’.
Dark humor belies.
The deadly seriousness.
Of their task.
A reindeer.
A Santa.
An elf.
A bird.
At least a few of those.
Casualties were inflicted by.
Explosive FPV drones.
Wearing Christmas ornaments.
North Korean manpower.
Significantly stiffened.
‘Orcs’ assaults.
In Kursk.
Allowing the combined.
‘Orcs’-North Korean force.
To recapture the village.
Of Plekhove.
On the eastern edge.
Of the salient.
After three costly infantry attacks.
Last weekend.
Altogether.
The ‘orcs’ and.
North Koreans.
Have around.
60,000 troops.
In and around Kursk.
The ‘elves’ have just.
20,000.
A reindeer.
A Santa.
An elf.
A bird.
At least a few of those.
Casualties were inflicted by.
Explosive FPV drones.
Wearing Christmas ornaments.
But attacking.
Across open ground.
Is always.
More dangerous.
Than defending.
From dug-in positions.
So the manpower imbalance.
Only confers.
A slight advantage to.
The ‘orcs’ and North Koreans.
And that advantage.
Could erode quickly.
If ‘orcs’ and.
North Korean commanders.
Don’t adapt to.
‘Elves’ methods.
A reindeer.
A Santa.
An elf.
A bird.
At least a few of those.
Casualties were inflicted by.
Explosive FPV drones.
Wearing Christmas ornaments.
The initial assaults.
Over the weekend.
Involved dismounted infantry.
Walking in neat lines.
Across snowy fields.
Without much.
Apparent support from.
Artillery or aircraft.
A reindeer.
A Santa.
An elf.
A bird.
At least a few of those.
Casualties were inflicted by.
Explosive FPV drones.
Wearing Christmas ornaments.
The darkly camouflaged.
North Koreans stood out.
Against the white snow.
Making them easy targets.
For ‘elves’ FPV drones.
And cluster shells.
It’s cold comfort to.
The North Korean survivors.
That they at least didn’t.
March into battle.
Under the false impression.
That standing still can hide you.
From a nearby drone operator’s.
Unblinking gaze.
—like savannah prey.
Blending into.
—like savannah prey.
Blending into.
The surrounding grass.
To escape a lion.
A reindeer.
A Santa.
An elf.
A bird.
At least a few of those.
Casualties were inflicted by.
Explosive FPV drones.
Wearing Christmas ornaments.
The North Koreans.
Have been observed.
Diving out of the way.
Of attacking drones.
—not always successfully.
while some ‘orcs’ trainees.
Practice dodging.
Incoming FPVs.
Sometimes with.
The help of a bizarre.
“Drone on a rope”.
Training aid.
Others clearly have been.
Instructed to freeze in place.
When they see or hear.
A drone approaching.
A reindeer.
A Santa.
An elf.
A bird.
At least a few of those.
Casualties were inflicted by.
Explosive FPV drones.
Wearing Christmas ornaments.
There is ample evidence of.
‘Orcs’ soldiers trying this tactic.
—and an equal amount of.
Evidence it doesn’t work.
Drones’ cameras.
Are that good.
And their operators.
Are that skilled.
Dodging may have saved.
A few North Koreans.
Last weekend.
But the 11th Army Corps’.
But the 11th Army Corps’.
Overall casualties.
Were still startling high.
Were still startling high.
A reindeer.
A Santa.
An elf.
A bird.
At least a few of those.
Casualties were inflicted by.
Explosive FPV drones.
Wearing Christmas ornaments.
It’s apparent.
‘Orcs’ commanders are.
Eager to obscure.
The scale of the losses.
“Despite ‘orcs’ attempts.
To hide North Korean failures.
Through quick evacuation.
Videos of strikes.”
“On North Korean soldiers.
Their failures and their corpses.
Are already in the public domain.”
Was stated.
*Because I read “Drones Wearing Christmas Ornaments Helped Kill Or Wound 200 North Korean Troops in Kursk” by David Axe on 18 Dec 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 Andriy Kovalenko.
Please read the original story on the Forbes:
Drones With Christmas Ornaments Helped Kill Or Wound 200 North Koreans
