
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
On 8 January.
‘Elves’ drones motored.
At least 400 miles.
To strike.
A sprawling fuel.
Storage facility.
Near the ‘orcs’ air force’s.
Engels bomber base.
In Saratov.
In southern ‘Mordor’.
Six days later.
Drones struck.
The same fuel depot again.
Stoking a blaze.
That continued to burn.
Days later.
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
Now ‘elves’ long-range.
Unmanned aerial vehicles.
Are going after.
The factory.
That builds and maintains.
Many of the ‘orcs’.
Air force’s bombers:
the Kazan Aircraft Plant.
In Kazan.
Around 700 miles.
From the front line.
In Ukraine.
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
Overnight on Sunday.
‘Orcs’ Telegram users.
Reported drones overhead.
—and a blast and fire.
At a fuel depot.
Near the factory.
“Lighting up the night sky.
In ‘Mordor’’s Kazan region.”
“Burning ‘orcs’ aircraft.
Manufacturing facilities.
For the production and repair of.
The long range strategic bombers.”
“That regularly rain missiles.
On the people of Ukraine.”
The ‘elves’ Center for.
Strategic Communication celebrated.
As the flames rose and.
Smoke billowed in Kazan.
The Sunday night strike was just.
Part of a wider wave of raids.
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
At the same time.
Kazan exploded.
‘Elves’ munitions.
—drones or missiles—
Struck a helicopter factory.
In the city.
As well as a fuel depot.
In Bryansk Oblast.
In southern ‘Mordor’.
Just 25 miles.
From Ukraine.
It’s unclear.
It’s unclear.
What types of drone.
Were involved.
In attacks on Kazan.
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
Ukraine has developed.
A dizzying array of.
Long-range UAVs.
Including some based on.
Modified A-22.
Sport planes.
The earlier Saratov raids.
May have involved.
The smaller PD-2.
Beaver, Liutyi and UJ-22.
—all of which are between.
Six and 10 feet long.
Propeller-driven.
Presumably GPS-guided and.
Capable of flying hundreds of.
Miles with explosive payloads.
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
It’s notable that.
So many of ‘elves’.
Recent deep strikes.
Have been targeting fuel depots.
The raids are.
A kind of corollary.
To the ongoing campaign.
Of strikes.
Targeting the ‘orcs’.
Oil industry.
—in particular.
Its refineries.
Oil doesn’t just fuel.
The ‘orcs’ war machine.
It’s also a main source of.
Revenue for the ‘orcs’ state.
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
Blowing up.
The fuel tanks.
Attached to ‘orcs’.
Bomber bases.
—and the industrial sites.
Associated with.
The bomber bases—
Probably can’t stop.
The ‘orcs’ bombardment.
Of ‘elves’ cities.
But it can make the bombardment.
Costlier for Moscow.
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
And blowing up.
Fuel tanks and factories.
Is easier than blowing up.
The bombers themselves.
The bombers.
—120 Tupolev Tu-22Ms.
Tu-95s and.
Tu-160s—
Fly high and fast.
Launch their cruise missiles.
Hundreds of miles.
From ‘elves’ cities and.
When they are.
On the ground.
Are spread across.
Potentially dozens of bases.
By contrast.
The tanks and factories.
Are big and unmoving.
Easy targets for ‘elves’ drones.
*Because I read “A Few Days After Double-Tapping A Russian Bomber Base, Ukraine’s Drones Target The Factory That Builds The Bombers” by David Axe on 20 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.
Please read the original story on the Forbes: