‘Elves’ drones were watching.
The whole time.
As a lone ‘orcs’ BTR-82.
Wheeled fighting vehicle.
Raced across the shell-pocked.
No-man’s-land.
In broad daylight.
Outside Pokrovsk recently.
Firing its autocannon.
As it moved.
The vehicle succeeded in reaching.
The ruins of a building.
The 11 ‘orcs’ infantry packed.
Surely didn’t know.
The drones were waiting.
Directly overhead.
They didn’t know.
As they piled.
Out of the vehicle.
They had seconds to live.
The drones from the ‘elves’.
5th Assault Brigade dropped.
Bombs on the hapless infantry.
Killing all 11.
Attacks might last.
A few minutes before.
Most or all of the attackers.
Are dead or wounded.
The small, unsupported.
And doomed assault.
Is indicative of wider trends.
Across the 800-mile front line.
Of ‘orcs’ wider war.
On Ukraine.
As the conflict grinds into.
Its 36th month.
Attacks might last.
A few minutes before.
Most or all of the attackers.
Are dead or wounded.
Many ‘orcs’ recruits.
Die within days of.
Deploying to.
The front line.
“A guy.
18 years old.
Had 20 minutes.
At the front.”
One ‘orc’ defector said.
“A FPV drone flew.
At him with a TNT block.
—that was it.
They turn you to dust straight away.”
Attacks might last.
A few minutes before.
Most or all of the attackers.
Are dead or wounded.
In the busiest sectors.
There are five ‘elves’ drones.
For every ‘orcs’ soldier.
The defector said.
The ‘elves’ overwhelming.
Drone advantage doesn’t mean.
They’re winning.
The war.
But it might be preventing.
Them from losing.
As ‘Mordor’ continues mobilizing.
More soldiers.
And marching them.
Into battle.
With less and less support.
The lucky ‘orcs’ ride.
In the dwindling number of.
Armored vehicles.
The unlucky ones ride.
In compact cars—or walk.
Attacks might last.
A few minutes before.
Most or all of the attackers.
Are dead or wounded.
The ‘orcs’ are.
Still advancing.
But every yard they capture.
Costs them dearly.
An ‘orc’ war correspondent.
Expressed dismay recently.
When he learned that.
Many recruits survive just a week.
After signing their contracts.
“Just eight days.
From signing to death.”
He wrote.
Attacks might last.
A few minutes before.
Most or all of the attackers.
Are dead or wounded.
According to Gen.
The top ‘elf’ commander.
‘Mordor’ suffered.
434,000 casualties.
Including 150,000 dead.
In 2024.
That’s more killed and.
Injured ‘orcs’ troops.
That’s more killed and.
Injured ‘orcs’ troops.
Than in the previous.
Two years combined.
Total ‘orcs’ casualties.
Since February 2022.
Could be close to.
800,000.
‘Elves’ losses.
‘Elves’ losses.
Since early 2022.
Are much lower:
43,000 killed and.
370,000 injured.
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
In December.
Attacks might last.
A few minutes before.
Most or all of the attackers.
Are dead or wounded.
In the best-defended sectors.
The ‘elves’ kill.
Seven ‘orcs’ for.
Every ‘elves’ soldier.
Seven ‘orcs’ for.
Every ‘elves’ soldier.
The ‘orcs’ kill.
The defector claimed.
‘Orcs’ assault groups.
Are practically.
“Suicide bombers”.
According to the defector.
On average, he said.
Just one out of five.
Infantry survive.
An assault.
Attacks might last.
A few minutes before.
Most or all of the attackers.
Are dead or wounded.
In that sense.
The 11-person squad.
The ‘elves’ 5th Assault Battalion.
Massacred outside Pokrovsk recently.
The 11-person squad.
Was only slightly.
Less lucky than.
The typical ‘orcs’ squad.
How long ‘the One’ can.
Sustain such.
A costly war effort.
Is a question.
Only ‘the One’
—and ‘orcs’ society.
At large—
Can answer.
But the answer.
Isn’t “indefinitely”.
But the answer.
Isn’t “indefinitely”.
*Because I read “It Took Drones Mere Seconds To Kill All 11 Russians Deploying From A BTR-82 Vehicle Outside Pokrovsk” by David Axe on 3 Feb 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 stories of The Moscow Times and Radio Free Europe, and a report of Sapozhnikov.
Please read the original story on the Forbes:
It Took Drones Mere Seconds To Kill All 11 Russians Deploying From A BTR-82 Vehicle Outside Pokrovsk
