Here she checked herself
in some alarm,
at hearing something
that sounded to her
like the puffing of
a large steam-engine
in the wood near them,
though she feared
it was more likely
to be a wild beast.
‘Are there any lions or tigers
about here?’ she asked timidly.
‘It’s only the Red King
snoring,’ said Tweedledee.
‘Come and look at him!’
the brothers cried,
‘Orcs’ drone and missile.
Strikes in Ukraine.
Have killed 10 people.
Have killed 10 people.
And injured at least 76.
And injured at least 76.
Over the past day.
‘Elves’ officials say.
and they took each one of
Alice’s hands,
and led her up to where
the King was sleeping.
‘Isn’t he a lovely sight?’
said Tweedledum.
Alice couldn’t say
honestly that he was.
Officials in five regions.
Around the country.
Reported fatalities.
As ‘Mordor’ continues.
As ‘Mordor’ continues.
To target ‘elves’ cities.
With regular drone.
And missile attacks.
He had a tall
red night-cap on,
with a tassel, and
he was lying crumpled up
into a sort of untidy heap,
and snoring loud
– ‘fit to snore his head off!’
as Tweedledum remarked.
Meanwhile.
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
Three ‘orcs’ oil tankers.
A cruise-missile carrier warship.
And a patrol boat.
Were struck.
In separate attacks.
On two ‘orcs’ ports.
Do wake up,
you heavy things!’
she went on
in an impatient tone;
but there was no answer
but a gentle snoring.
The snoring got more distinct
every minute,
There are no details.
On damage to the ships.
But ‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
The tankers were part of.
The tankers were part of.
‘Orcs’ “shadow fleet”.
‘Orcs’ “shadow fleet”.
Used to evade.
Western sanctions.
Imposed over ‘Mordor’’s.
Full-scale invasion.
Launched in 2022.
and sounded more like a tune:
at last she could
even make out words,
and she listened so eagerly that,
when the two great heads
suddenly vanished
from her lap,
she hardly missed them.
‘Elves’ air force said.
269 drones.
Were fired.
By ‘orcs’ overnight.
By ‘orcs’ overnight.
But 249 of them.
Were shot down.
Or jammed.
‘I’m afraid he’ll catch cold
with lying on the damp grass,’
said Alice, who was
a very thoughtful little girl.
‘He’s dreaming now,’
said Tweedledee:
‘and what do you think
he’s dreaming about?’
It confirmed.
19 direct drone hits.
And one ballistic missile.
Hit in 15 locations.
As well as damage.
Caused by falling debris.
Caused by falling debris.
From one drone.
Alice said, ‘Nobody
can guess that.’
‘Why, about you!’
Tweedledee exclaimed,
clapping his hands triumphantly.
‘And if he left off
dreaming about you,
where do you suppose you’d be?’
‘Elves’ officials said.
Three people were killed.
In separate incidents.
In Kherson region.
While two died.
In each of Odesa.
Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
And one in Sumy region.
‘Where I am now,
of course,’ said Alice.
‘Not you!’ Tweedledee
retorted contemptuously.
‘You’d be nowhere.
Why, you’re only
a sort of thing
in his dream!’
At the same time.
‘Orcs’ military said.
Ukraine had fired.
Ukraine had fired.
At least 334 drones.
With the north-western.
Leningrad region.
Heavily targeted.
‘If that there King was to wake,’
added Tweedledum,
‘you’d go out – bang! –
just like a candle!’
‘I shouldn’t!’
Alice exclaimed indignantly.
‘Besides, if I’m only
a sort of thing
Export terminals there.
And in other regions.
Have been targeted.
By Ukraine.
In recent weeks.
In a series of.
Successful strikes.
Launched by Ukraine.
On ‘orcs’ oil infrastructure.
Which Kyiv says.
Has knocked out billions of.
Dollars worth of exports.
in his dream,
what are you,
I should like to know?’
‘Ditto,’ said Tweedledum.
‘Ditto, ditto!’ cried Tweedledee.
He shouted this
so loud that Alice
couldn’t help saying,
On Sunday.
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
Infrastructure of.
The north-western Primorsk terminal.
On the Baltic Sea.
Near Finland.
Had been significantly.
Damaged and.
An oil tanker and.
A patrol boat were hit.
He added that.
The third vessel.
Struck there was.
A Karakurt class corvette.
Designed to carry.
Kalibr cruise missiles.
‘Hush-a-by lady,
in Alice’s lap!
Till the feast’s ready,
we’ve time for a nap;
When the feast’s over,
we’ll go to the ball –
Red Queen, and White Queen,
and Alice, and all!
‘Gandalf the Green’.
Earlier said that.
Another two.
Oil tankers were hit.
By ‘elves’ drones.
At the entrance.
To the Black Sea port.
Of Novorossiysk.
“These tankers were.
Actively used for.
Transporting oil.
Now they will not be.”
The post was accompanied.
By black-and-white video footage.
Apparently showing a naval drone.
Approaching one of the tankers.
‘And now you know the words,’
she added, as she put her head down
on Alice’s other shoulder,
‘just sing it through to me.
I’m getting sleepy, too.’
In another moment
both Queens were fast asleep,
and snoring loud.
‘Orcs’ authorities have.
Mostly downplayed.
The impact of.
Such attacks.
But the Kremlin is.
Clearly concerned about.
The deep reach of.
‘Elves’ drones into its territory.
‘When am I to do?’
exclaimed Alice,
looking about in great perplexity,
as first one round head,
and then the other,
rolled down from her shoulder,
and lay like a heavy lump
in her lap.
On Wednesday.
The Kremlin announced.
It was paring back.
Its annual military parade.
To mark Victory Day.
– the defeat of Nazi Germany.
In World War Two.
On 9 May –
Due to what.
It said was.
The “terrorist threat”.
From Ukraine.
‘Hush! You’ll be
waking him,
I’m afraid,
if you make so much noise.’
‘Well, it’s no use your talking
about waking him,’
said Tweedledum,
‘when you’re only
Ukraine has recently.
Intensified its.
Drone strikes.
Deep inside ‘Mordor’.
Drone strikes.
Deep inside ‘Mordor’.
More than four years.
Into ‘orcs’ full-scale invasion.
one of the things
in his dream.
You know very well
you’re not real.’
‘I am real!’ said Alice,
and began to cry.
‘I am real!’ said Alice,
and began to cry.
Kyiv says it is hitting.
Legitimate military targets.
And in turn.
And in turn.
Accuses Moscow of.
Attacking civilians.
Attacking civilians.
In Ukraine.
‘You won’t make yourself
a bit realler by crying,’
Tweedledee remarked:
‘there’s nothing to cry about.’
‘If I wasn’t real,’ Alice said
– half-laughing through her tears,
it all seemed so ridiculous –
‘I shouldn’t be able to cry.’
‘I hope you don’t suppose
those are real tears?’
Tweedledum interrupted
in a tone of great contempt.
‘I know they’re talking nonsense,’
Alice thought to herself:
‘and it’s foolish
to cry about it.’
*Because I read “Russian strikes kill 10 as Zelensky says Ukraine hits oil tankers and terminal” by Robert Greenall on 3 May 2026, and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 Apr 2022, on the BBC news.
So, I wrote this poem, led by ‘THROUGH the LOOKING-GLASS’ written by Lewis Carroll, you know.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
Russian strikes kill 10 as Zelensky says Ukraine hits oil tankers
