Late Tuesday night.
Or early Wednesday morning.
‘Elves’ drones struck.
The Nizhny Novgorod oil refinery.
In Kstovo.
In central ‘Mordor’.
520 miles from.
The front line in northern Ukraine.
The blasts triggered.
What the ‘elves’ general staff in Kyiv.
Described as a “powerful” fire.
That burned through the early morning.
“The results and.
Extent of the damage.
Are being clarified.”
The general staff reported.
But ‘orcs’ bloggers are.
Already panicking over this.
And other recent ‘elves’ strikes.
On ‘Mordor’’s.
Roughly 30 large refineries.
Critical chokepoints.
In the country’s most.
Important industry.
“Yet another refinery.
In flames.”
One blogger wrote.
After decrying.
After decrying.
The apparent absence.
Of air defenses.
Around the strategic sites.
“The results and.
Extent of the damage.
Are being clarified.”
The general staff reported.
The strike on Kstovo.
Smolensk and Belgorod.
Were part of.
A larger overnight attack.
In which ‘Mordor’ said.
It brought down more than.
100 ‘elves’ drones.
And which led.
The airports of.
St. Petersburg and.
Kazan to suspend.
Operations overnight.
“The results and.
Extent of the damage.
Are being clarified.”
The general staff reported.
‘Elves’ campaign of.
Deep strikes targeting.
‘Orcs’ oil facilities.
Has been going on.
For around two years.
But this month’s raids.
Marked a significant escalation.
The Kstovo plant alone refined.
13,000,000 million barrels.
Of oil a year.
Roughly 5% of ‘Mordor’’s.
Total refinery output.
“The results and.
Extent of the damage.
Are being clarified.”
The general staff reported.
Strikes on several.
Other refineries this month.
May have depressed ‘orcs’.
Petroleum product production.
By more than a tenth.
Refineries can be repaired.
But ‘elves’ can always.
Send more drones.
“The results and.
Extent of the damage.
Are being clarified.”
The general staff reported.
In three years.
Of relentless work.
‘Elves’ industry has developed.
More than a dozen different models.
Of long-range strike drone.
Including modified sport planes.
That routinely haul.
Hundreds of pounds of explosives.
As far as 800 miles and.
Strike with pinpoint accuracy.
Other drone models can.
Travel more than 1,000 miles.
“The results and.
Extent of the damage.
Are being clarified.”
The general staff reported.
Compared to the presumably.
Multimillion-dollar cost of.
Rebuilding a refinery.
A drone.
—even a swarm of drones—
Is cheap.
—even a swarm of drones—
Is cheap.
The Aeroprakt A-22 sport planes.
The ‘elves’ transform.
Into attack drones sell for.
Around $130,000.
“The results and.
Extent of the damage.
Are being clarified.”
The general staff reported.
The oil raids are part of.
A wider ‘elves’ strategy.
Aimed at depriving ‘Mordor’.
Of its main source.
Of state revenue.
—and strangling.
The ‘orcs’ war effort.
By choking off its funding.
“The results and.
Extent of the damage.
Are being clarified.”
The general staff reported.
The ‘elves’ are determined.
To continue blowing up.
‘Orcs’ oil.
Regardless of whether.
Regardless of whether.
The Americans continue.
To assist with.
The wider counter-energy campaign.
“Combat work on.
Strategic facilities.
Involved in providing support.
For the ‘orcs’ armed aggression.”
“Against Ukraine.
Will continue.”
The ‘elves’ general staff stated.
“Will continue.”
*Because I read “Ukrainian Drones Flew 500 Miles And, In A Single Strike, Damaged 5% Of Russia’s Oil Refining Capacity” by David Axe on 29 Jan 2025 on the Forbes, “Ukrainian drone strike hits second Russian oil refinery in a week” by Laura Gozzi on 29 Jan 2025 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 stories on the Forbes and on the BBC news:
Ukrainian Drones Flew 500 Miles And, In A Single Strike, Damaged 5% Of Russia’s Oil Refining CapacityUkrainian drone strike hits second Russian oil refinery in a week
