The ‘elves’ have a name.
For this muddy season:
Bezdorizhzhya.
Bezdorizhzhya.
This year’s bezdorizhzhya.
Has already begun.
Claiming victims.
In eastern Ukraine.
There’s a reason.
There’s a reason.
Purpose-made armored vehicles.
Purpose-made armored vehicles.
Tend to have.
Metal tracks or.
Barring that.
Big fat off-road tires.
A mechanized force can’t.
Always count on.
Undamaged paved roads.
To lead them to their objectives.
It’s a truism.
It’s a truism.
The ‘orcs’ army in Ukraine.
The ‘orcs’ army in Ukraine.
Has forgotten as its battered.
Regiments increasingly.
Make do with.
Civilian vehicles.
That don’t have tracks.
Or off-road tires.
But these regiments are about.
To get a stark reminder.
As the weather warms.
All along the front line.
Of ‘orcs’ wider war.
On Ukraine.
And once-frozen ground.
Turns to mud.
And once-frozen ground.
Turns to mud.
The ‘elves’ have a name.
For this muddy season:
Bezdorizhzhya.
Bezdorizhzhya.
This year’s bezdorizhzhya.
Has already begun.
Claiming victims.
In eastern Ukraine.
On or just before Tuesday.
‘Orcs’ troops traveling.
In a Lada.
—a kind of compact car—
Got stuck in the mud.
Just north of Chasiv Yar.
In eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.
The Lada was a sitting duck.
The Lada was a sitting duck.
When an explosive FPV drone.
Barreled in.
The Lada was a sitting duck.
The ‘elves’ have a name.
For this muddy season:
Bezdorizhzhya.
Bezdorizhzhya.
This year’s bezdorizhzhya.
Has already begun.
Claiming victims.
In eastern Ukraine.
Other ‘orcs’ assault groups.
Traveling in bukhankas.
—civilian “loaf” vans—
Were only slightly luckier.
Were only slightly luckier.
Around Pokrovsk.
40 miles to the southwest.
On or around the same day.
While they managed to.
Cross the still-frozen ground.
Their mobility didn’t save them.
From the ever-present drones.
The ‘elves’ have a name.
For this muddy season:
Bezdorizhzhya.
Bezdorizhzhya.
This year’s bezdorizhzhya.
Has already begun.
Claiming victims.
In eastern Ukraine.
The combination of.
Mud and drones afflicts.
Logistics troops as much as.
It afflicts the infantry.
‘Orcs’ supply trains.
Have no choice.
But to stick to.
The main paved roads.
As alternate routes are.
Increasingly soupy.
As winter turns to spring.
As winter turns to spring.
‘Elves’ “road cutter” drones.
Are squeezing these paved roads.
Destroying so many ‘orcs’ trucks.
That the wreckage turns into roadblocks.
The ‘elves’ have a name.
For this muddy season:
Bezdorizhzhya.
Bezdorizhzhya.
This year’s bezdorizhzhya.
Has already begun.
Claiming victims.
In eastern Ukraine.
“The situation near Pokrovsk.
Is extremely difficult.
—logistics are being disrupted.
And there aren’t enough personnel.”
One ‘orc’ blogger warned.
“Near Chasiv Yar.
We are making slight advances.
But the same problem persists:”
“Logistics are being hit.
And manpower is lacking.”
The ‘orcs’ should brace.
For both problems to get worse.
Before they get better.
As the mud deepens.
And more infantry die.
While riding in civilian vehicles.
That are prone to get stuck.
—and then become easy prey for.
The same drones that are blowing up.
‘Orcs’ supply trucks.
The ‘elves’ have a name.
For this muddy season:
Bezdorizhzhya.
Bezdorizhzhya.
This year’s bezdorizhzhya.
Has already begun.
Claiming victims.
In eastern Ukraine.
*Because I read “Russian Troops Riding In Compact Cars Are Sitting Ducks When They Get Stuck In The Mud” by David Axe on 6 Mar 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:
