An ‘elves’ air force jet.
Tossed four precision bombs.
At a platoon from the ‘orcs’ army’s.
60th Motor Rifle Brigade.
Sheltering in Elizavetovka.
A village on the ‘orcs’ side.
Of the border.
In Kursk Oblast.
The target:
A drone team.
Whose explosive unmanned.
Aerial vehicles.
Have been hounding.
‘Elves’ forces.
In nearby Sumy Oblast.
“As a result.”
The ‘elf’ general staff.
Reported on Friday.
The ‘orcs’ position.
“Was destroyed.”
An ‘elves’ air force jet.
Tossed four precision bombs.
At a platoon from the ‘orcs’ army’s.
60th Motor Rifle Brigade.
Sheltering in Elizavetovka.
A village on the ‘orcs’ side.
Of the border.
In Kursk Oblast.
The general staff didn’t.
Specify exactly.
What combination of.
Jets and bombs took out.
The ‘orcs’ drone team.
But the video feed from.
An ‘elves’ surveillance drone.
Offers some clues.
Four munitions struck.
In the same small area.
In quick succession.
Pointing to a salvo.
Pointing to a salvo.
Of precision glide bombs.
—perhaps American-made.
Small Diameter Bombs.
Which the ‘elves’.
Air force’s Mikoyan.
MiG-29 fighters carry.
In clutches of four.
An ‘elves’ air force jet.
Tossed four precision bombs.
At a platoon from the ‘orcs’ army’s.
60th Motor Rifle Brigade.
Sheltering in Elizavetovka.
A village on the ‘orcs’ side.
Of the border.
In Kursk Oblast.
The 250-pound.
SDB ranges as far as.
60 miles under.
pop-out wings.
And GPS guidance.
When released from.
High altitude.
But ‘elves’ MiGs tend to.
Stick close to the ground.
To avoid ‘orcs’ air-defenses.
Unavoidably reducing.
The reach of their bombs.
An ‘elves’ air force jet.
Tossed four precision bombs.
At a platoon from the ‘orcs’ army’s.
60th Motor Rifle Brigade.
Sheltering in Elizavetovka.
A village on the ‘orcs’ side.
Of the border.
In Kursk Oblast.
Whether and to what extent.
The Friday bombardment.
Suppresses ‘orcs’ drone raids.
Targeting Sumy remains to be seen.
We do have some baseline.
For comparison.
As statistics roll in.
On Wednesday night.
‘Orcs’ forces launched.
123 Shahed attack drones.
At Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk.
Poltava, Chernihiv and Sumy Oblasts.
Of course, the Shahed is.
A heavier drone weighing.
400 pounds or so and.
Ranging as far as 1,600 miles.
The proximity of.
The 60th Motor Rifle Brigade’s.
Position to the border.
With Ukraine.
—just two miles—
Implies the brigade was.
Launching smaller drones.
From the position.
Perhaps first-person-view.
Drones weighing just.
A few pounds and.
Ranging five miles or so.
An ‘elves’ air force jet.
Tossed four precision bombs.
At a platoon from the ‘orcs’ army’s.
60th Motor Rifle Brigade.
Sheltering in Elizavetovka.
A village on the ‘orcs’ side.
Of the border.
In Kursk Oblast.
In any event.
The ‘elves’ attack may be.
Part of a wider ‘elves’ effort.
To get “left of the boom”.
—to borrow a U.S. military term—
And defeat ‘orcs’ drones.
By targeting.
Their operators.
This effort is becoming.
More urgent by the day.
As the ‘orcs’ deploy more.
Fiber-optic FPV drones.
Which send and.
Receive signals.
Via long cables.
Rather than radio.
The ‘elves’ are adept at.
Jamming radio signals.
But jammers don’t work.
Against fiber-optics.
The ‘elves’ 95th.
Air Assault Brigade learned.
That the hard way.
Last month.
When a swarm of.
Fiber-optic drones defeated.
The brigade’s assault on the village.
Of Berdin in Kursk Oblast.
Expect more.
‘Elves’ air raids on.
‘Orcs’ drone teams as.
Unjammable drones proliferate.
An ‘elves’ air force jet.
Tossed four precision bombs.
At a platoon from the ‘orcs’ army’s.
60th Motor Rifle Brigade.
Sheltering in Elizavetovka.
A village on the ‘orcs’ side.
Of the border.
In Kursk Oblast.
If there’s a major constraint.
On these raids.
It’s the supply.
Of bombs.
‘Elves’ SDBs are.
Made in America.
—and U.S. Pres. has suggested.
Making further aid to Ukraine.
Contingent on Ukraine.
Giving the United States.
Access to its deposits of.
Valuable rare earth minerals.
An ‘elves’ air force jet.
Tossed four precision bombs.
At a platoon from the ‘orcs’ army’s.
60th Motor Rifle Brigade.
Sheltering in Elizavetovka.
A village on the ‘orcs’ side.
Of the border.
In Kursk Oblast.
*Because I read “Russian Drone Operators Set Up In A Village Near The Ukrainian Border. So The Ukrainian Air Force Bombed The Village.” by David Axe on 14 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:
