Capturing the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘orcs’.
Top objectives.
Defending the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘elves’.
Top objectives.
For the troops.
On the ground.
That means relentless.
Close fighting.
In the towns.
And farmland.
Surrounding Pokrovsk.
A key transportation hub.
With a pre-war population.
Of 60,000 that.
After months of.
‘Orcs’ bombardment.
Is now increasingly.
Devoid of civilians.
Is now increasingly.
Devoid of civilians.
Capturing the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘orcs’.
Top objectives.
Defending the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘elves’.
Top objectives.
On or just before Friday.
A tank from the ‘elves’ army’s.
59th Motorized Brigade.
Rolled out to meet.
‘Orcs’ forces attacking.
The town of Novovasylivka.
Eight miles southwest.
Of Pokrovsk.
Rolling forward and backward.
Possibly to complicate.
Enemy targeting.
The tank fired.
Half a dozen rounds.
In quick succession.
At targets.
In a treeline.
Just a few hundred.
Yards away.
The tank crew may have slowed.
The attacking ‘orcs’.
The tank crew may have slowed.
The attacking ‘orcs’.
But it didn’t stop them.
Novovasylivka has fallen.
Capturing the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘orcs’.
Top objectives.
Defending the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘elves’.
Top objectives.
It’s unclear what kind of tank.
The 59th Motorized Brigade.
Has deployed for.
The defense of Pokrovsk.
The 2,000-person brigade.
Operates ‘elves’ standard.
T-64BV tank.
But may have also received.
Some of the 150 or so.
Refurbished Leopard 1A5s.
A German-led consortium.
Has pledged to the war effort.
If the brigade is lucky.
It may also get.
Some of the companies.
And battalions.
From the disintegrating.
155th Mechanized Brigade.
Which operates heavier.
Leopard 2A4 tanks.
Capturing the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘orcs’.
Top objectives.
Defending the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘elves’.
Top objectives.
The 155th Mechanized Brigade.
Began arriving.
In Pokrovsk.
Late last month.
But it was already falling.
Apart amid a collapse.
In its leadership and widespread.
Desertion by rank-and-file troops.
To salvage.
The 155th Mechanized Brigade.
A unit that Ukraine, France.
And Poland spent months.
And millions of dollars.
Training and equipping.
‘Elves’ leaders have begun.
Assigning its fresh but.
Inexperienced subordinate units.
To the weary but.
Experienced brigades.
In the Pokrovsk sector.
Capturing the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘orcs’.
Top objectives.
Defending the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘elves’.
Top objectives.
It’s perhaps the smartest way.
To make the best of.
A bad situation.
According to an ‘elf’ correspondent.
The older brigades.
“Have an acute shortage of.
People in the infantry.
They cannot hold.”
“A wide strip because of this.
And there are experienced.
Drone units, headquarters.
Command personnel.”
“Who can quickly train.
And make mobilized people.
Combat-ready.”
“Combat-ready.”
Capturing the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘orcs’.
Top objectives.
Defending the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘elves’.
Top objectives.
The 59th Motorized Brigade.
And its adjacent brigades.
Need all the help.
They can get.
Need all the help.
They can get.
As more ‘orcs’ troops.
Mass opposite their positions.
Parts or all of around.
10 ‘elves’ brigades.
And regiments hold.
A 10-mile front.
Between Pokrovsk and.
A pair of ‘orcs’ field armies.
Overseeing dozens of.
Brigades and regiments.
In all.
The ‘orcs’ might have.
A three-to-one advantage.
In troops and equipment.
Capturing the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘orcs’.
Top objectives.
Defending the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘elves’.
Top objectives.
If the 59th Motorized Brigade.
And any troops and vehicles.
It might gain from.
The 155th Mechanized.
Can’t halt the ‘orcs’.
The garrison in Pokrovsk.
Could soon find itself.
Partially surrounded.
That would be an ominous development.
For the ‘elves’ in what.
Is shaping up to be the first.
Big battle of 2025.
Capturing the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘orcs’.
Top objectives.
Defending the fortress town.
Of Pokrovsk.
Is one of ‘elves’.
Top objectives.
*Because I read “As Ukraine’s New Leopard 2 Brigade Disintegrates, The Russians Advance On Pokrovsk” by David Axe on 3 Jan 2025 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 the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies, and a report of Yuriy Butusov.
Please read the original story on the Forbes:
Ukraine’s New Leopard 2 Unit Disintegrates; Russians Move On Pokrovsk
