Year: 2024

She briefly sobs. As she describes. How her house burned down. With all her possessions.   “They bombed so much.” She says of the advancing. ‘Orcs’ army. “It’s like the last judgement!”     At a shelter in Pavlohrad. About 100km. West of the slowly. Shifting front line.   Evacuees are constantly. Arriving from villages. […]

At a shelter in Pavlohrad. About 100km. West of the slowly. Shifting front line.   Evacuees are. Constantly arriving from. Villages and towns. Overtaken by the war.     A woman, 31. Is there with. Her two sons. The family cat lies.   Sleeping among. The few belongings. The family have managed. To bring with […]

Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs, An’ aa’ll tell ye aall an aaful story, Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs, An’ Aa’ll tel ye ‘boot ‘the One’.   Noo who felt inclined to gann? An fight in neighbour wars, Who joined a troop of Cossacks that cared? For nowther wounds nor scars,   But ‘the One’ got […]

The proliferation of. Tiny explosive drones. All along the 800-mile. Front line of ‘orcs’ wider war.   On Ukraine. Ushered in what. One think tank called. “The era of the cautious tank.”   But in Kurakhove. A front-line town in. Eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast. ‘Elves’ tanks are anything but cautious.     The ‘elves’ have. […]

A ruthless double-tap. Barrage by ‘elves’ rockets. May have killed. Or wounded.   Dozens of ‘orcs’ troops. In southern ‘elves’. Zaporizhzhia Oblast. On or just before Saturday.   Worse is coming. The administration of. U.S. has finally. Given Ukraine.   Permission to use its best. U.S.-made munitions. Against targets. Inside ‘Mordor’.     An ‘elves’ […]

To surround. The eastern fortress city. Of Pokrovsk. From the south.   ‘Orcs’ forces first. Have to roll back. ‘Elves’ defenses. In Kurakhove.   A village on the bank. Of the Vovcha River. 18 miles south. Of Pokrovsk.     The ‘elves’ army’s 33rd. Mechanized Brigade and its. German-made Leopard 2A4 tanks. Stand in their […]

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.   […]

She had come home. Early the night. An ‘orcs’ drone hit. Her bedroom.     “It flew in. Through the window. Right into her room.” Her mother says.   After the explosion. Her parents ran. From the next room to find. Their daughter’s room on fire.   “We tried to put it out. But everything […]

As she was alerted. To the invasion. Her first thoughts were. For her six adopted children.   Who were visiting. The seaside. 100km away. From home.     They were in. A municipal holiday home. Near the sea. Where they had been sent.   For fresh air. And general wellbeing. It quickly became. Too dangerous […]

“I saw a robot today.” My five-year-old daughter. Whispered to me as I filmed. Her underneath the table.   “It was flying. … it wanted to kill me.” It wasn’t clear what. – if anything –   My daughter had seen that day. To evoke the disturbing image. But evidently. She was unsettled.   My […]