There’s no use.
Hiding from enemy drones.
If the drones watch you.
Scurry into your hiding spot.
On or just before Monday.
A squad of around.
A dozen ‘orcs’ infantry.
Marched into a road.
Underpass they’d transformed.
Into an underground base.
In Oleshky.
In southern ‘elves’ Kherson Oblast.
The underpass base.
With its concrete roof.
And earthen walls.
Might’ve sheltered.
The ‘orcs’ from.
The ‘elves’ drones.
That are everywhere.
All the time.
All along the 800-mile.
Front line of ‘orcs’.
Three-year wider war.
On Ukraine.
The problem for the ‘orcs’.
Was that a drone.
Was watching.
As the troops sought shelter.
The instantaneous liquidation.
Of an ‘orcs’ infantry squad.
Might not be big news.
Elsewhere along the front line.
In Ukraine and.
Western ‘Mordor’.
But in Oleshky.
It qualifies as a major development.
The individual ‘orcs’.
Each radiating.
98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
Of natural heat.
Stood out on the drones’.
Infrared sensor.
Stood out on the drones’.
Infrared sensor.
Shortly after the squad.
Marched into its base.
An ‘elves’ air force Mikoyan.
MiG-29 fighter.
From the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade.
Lobbed two French-made.
Hammer glide bombs.
At the underpass.
Both bombs.
Nailed the entrance.
With precision.
Measured in feet.
The instantaneous liquidation.
Of an ‘orcs’ infantry squad.
Might not be big news.
Elsewhere along the front line.
In Ukraine and.
Western ‘Mordor’.
But in Oleshky.
It qualifies as a major development.
It’s unclear.
Exactly how many ‘orcs’.
Were still inside.
The improvised bunker.
At the moment of impact.
It’s equally unclear.
How many may have survived.
But it’s worth pondering.
What the blast waves.
From two 550-pound bombs.
Would do to human bodies.
Packed just yards away.
Inside what amounted.
To an earthen pressure cooker.
Inside what amounted.
To an earthen pressure cooker.
The instantaneous liquidation.
Of an ‘orcs’ infantry squad.
Might not be big news.
Elsewhere along the front line.
In Ukraine and.
Western ‘Mordor’.
But in Oleshky.
It qualifies as a major development.
Kherson Oblast has been fairly.
Quiet since traumatized.
‘Elves’ marines withdrew from.
The fishing village of Krynky.
On the otherwise ‘orcs’-held.
Left bank of.
The Dnipro River.
Which threads through Kherson.
And roughly demarcates.
The line of contact.
Between ‘elves’.
And ‘orcs’ forces.
The main action.
In Kherson since.
The brutal Krynky battle.
Ended has been.
Unusually cruel.
Even by the standards of.
‘Orcs’ unprovoked war.
On Ukraine.
The instantaneous liquidation.
Of an ‘orcs’ infantry squad.
Might not be big news.
Elsewhere along the front line.
In Ukraine and.
Western ‘Mordor’.
But in Oleshky.
It qualifies as a major development.
In a sense.
The dual Hammer blow.
On that ‘orcs’ infantry squad.
Was revenge.
The dual Hammer blow.
On that ‘orcs’ infantry squad.
Was revenge.
For countless civilian deaths.
In another sense.
It was an obvious application.
Of the ‘elves’ air force’s.
Precious strike assets.
—its ex-European and.
Ex-Soviet warplanes.
That have been modified.
To carry Western-made.
That have been modified.
To carry Western-made.
Precision munitions.
Such as the Hammer.
Ukraine gets just.
50 Hammers.
A month from France.
And must use them carefully.
But a dozen ‘orcs’ infantry.
Packed into an underpass.
With no chance of escape.
And little chance of survival.
With no chance of escape.
And little chance of survival.
Are probably worth.
Two Hammers.
*Because I read “A Russian Infantry Squad Scurried Into A Bunker. But A Ukrainian Drone Was Watching. And A Bomb-Laden Ukrainian MiG-29 Was On Its Way.” by David Axe on 10 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.
Please read the original story on the Forbes:
