A powerful barrage of.
‘Elves’ drones pummeled.
Millerovo air base.
In ‘Mordor’’s Rostov Oblast.
On Monday.
‘Orcs’ gunners opened fire.
Lighting up the early morning sky.
Explosions rocked the base.
The targets may have included.
The few ‘orcs’ air force Sukhoi.
Su-25 attack jets.
That still stage from the airfield.
For attacks on the 800-mile front line.
Of ‘Mordor’’s 34-month.
Wider war on Ukraine.
100 miles to the west.
There’s also a military academy.
At the base.
The specific target.
Doesn’t really matter.
The point of ‘elves’.
Deep-strike raids isn’t always.
To destroy particular buildings.
Or pieces of equipment.
But that doesn’t mean.
The ‘elves’ raids.
On the Rostov Oblast airfield.
Are pointless.
The raids force the ‘orcs’.
Into a time-distance dilemma.
The raids force the ‘orcs’.
Into a time-distance dilemma.
According to an analist.
“The goal is to steadily increase.
The cost of war for ‘Mordor’”.
By instilling fear.
By instilling fear.
Increasing risk and.
Disrupting operations.
It’s working.
As Ukraine has.
Deployed more.
And more powerful.
Deep-strike munitions.
—U.S.-made ATACMS rockets.
French- and British-made.
SCALP-EG and.
Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
And an array of.
Locally-produced drones.
Rockets and cruise missiles—
The ‘orcs’ have reacted by.
Shifting forces farther.
From the front line.
Shifting forces farther.
From the front line.
But that doesn’t mean.
The ‘elves’ raids.
On the Rostov Oblast airfield.
Are pointless.
The raids force the ‘orcs’.
Into a time-distance dilemma.
The raids force the ‘orcs’.
Into a time-distance dilemma.
As recently as.
Seven months ago.
The ‘orcs’ air force.
Based as many as.
305 warplanes.
Within just 100 miles.
Of the front line.
In Ukraine.
When the ‘elves’ army started.
Lobbing ATACMS.
Each of which scatters.
Hundreds of.
Grenade-sized submunitions.
Across a wide area.
The ‘orcs’ panicked.
—and began pulling back.
Many of the warplanes.
Redeploying them to bases.
Just beyond the 200-mile range.
Of the ATACMS.
Last year.
Dozens of Su-25s and.
Sukhoi Su-30 fighters.
Were spotted at Millerovo.
This fall.
The same satellites observed.
Just a handful of Su-25s.
Left at the base.
The great warplane evacuation.
May have saved valuable airframes.
From destruction in.
The recent drone bombardment.
But that doesn’t mean.
The ‘elves’ raids.
On the Rostov Oblast airfield.
Are pointless.
The raids force the ‘orcs’.
Into a time-distance dilemma.
The raids force the ‘orcs’.
Into a time-distance dilemma.
Operating from bases.
As far as 400 miles.
From the front line.
Instead of just 100 miles.
Limits how often.
‘Orcs’ warplanes can fly.
In a given week.
—and also limits how long.
They can linger over the front.
During their less frequent sorties.
Sure, the ‘orcs’ air force.
Is preserving its planes.
But in doing so.
It’s making the planes.
Less useful.
This is good math for Ukraine.
And the math gets even better.
As ‘elves’ munitions.
reach deeper into ‘Mordor’.
More often.
“Ukraine is steadily enhancing.
Its ability to increase.
The cost of war.
For ‘Mordor’,” was written.
*Because I read “Russian Jets Fled Millerovo Air Base. Ukrainian Drones Came After The Ones Left Behind.” by David Axe on 23 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 report of Tatarigami.
Please read the original story on the Forbes:
Russian Jets Fled Millerovo Air Base; Drones Came After Those Left
