At last the Red Queen began.
‘You’ve missed
the soup and fish,’ she said.
‘Put on the joint!’
And the waiters set
a leg of mutton
before Alice,
who looked at it
rather anxiously,
as she had never
had to carve
a joint before.
‘You look a little shy;
let me introduce you
to that leg of mutton,’
said the Red Queen.
The ‘elves’ military is.
Stepping up its campaign.
To destroy vehicles.
Supplying ‘orcs’ forces.
Along crucial roads.
In occupied Ukraine.
Using new AI drone technology.
Experts say.
‘Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.’
In at least 14 incidents.
In the past week.
The vehicles carrying food.
Fuel and ammunition.
Were targeted along.
Critical routes connecting.
‘Mordor’ to Crimea and.
Other occupied territories.
Critical routes connecting.
‘Mordor’ to Crimea and.
Other occupied territories.
In southern Ukraine.
However, the egg only got
larger and larger,
and more and more human:
when she had come
within a few yards of it,
she saw that it had eyes
and a nose and mouth;
and when she had come close to it,
Ukraine is starting.
To regain more ground.
To regain more ground.
Than it is losing.
For the first time.
For the first time.
Since 2023.
Analysis indicates.
she saw clearly
that it was
HUMPTY DUMPTY himself.
‘It can’t be anybody else!’
she said to herself.
‘I’m as certain of it,
as if his name were
written all over his face.’
After more than four years.
Of war and increased.
‘Orcs’ occupation of.
Eastern and southern Ukraine.
Neither side has gained.
Any significant ground.
In recent months.
In recent months.
It might have been written
a hundred times, easily,
on that enormous face.
Humpty Dumpty was sitting
with his legs crossed,
like a Turk,
on the top of a high wall
– such a narrow one
Experts say recent.
Drone technology advancements.
Including the AI-enabled.
Hornet system.
Have allowed Ukraine.
To attack ‘orcs’ targets.
Travelling to the front lines.
At greater distances.
To attack ‘orcs’ targets.
Travelling to the front lines.
At greater distances.
And with increased accuracy.
that Alice quite wondered
how he could keep his balance –
and, as his eyes were steadily
fixed in the opposite direction,
and he didn’t take
the least notice of her,
she thought he must be
a stuffed figure after all.
Ukraine’s defence minister said.
On Wednesday.
Its “logistics lockdown” strategy.
Aims to “increase pressure.”
Its “logistics lockdown” strategy.
Aims to “increase pressure.
On the ‘orcs’ military.
In the rear and.”
“Deny the enemy.
The ability to conduct.
Sustained offensive operations”.
Sustained offensive operations”.
‘And how exactly like an egg
he is!’ she said aloud,
standing with her hands ready
to catch him,
standing with her hands ready
to catch him,
for she was every moment
expecting him to fall.
Analysed footage shows.
Burned-out shells of.
Container lorries and.
Other military vehicles.
At multiple locations.
Along a key route.
Along a key route.
Through southern Ukraine.
‘It’s very provoking,’
Humpty Dumpty said
after a long silence,
looking away from Alice
as he spoke,
‘to be called an egg – very!’
‘I said you looked like an egg, Sir,’
Alice gentry explained.
At least 10 incidents.
Were recorded between.
‘Mordor’’s border and.
The occupied city of Mariupol.
With one strike recorded.
South-west of the city.
Of Melitopol.
The critical route is.
Used by the ‘orcs’ military.
To supply their forces.
On the front line.
And in Crimea.
‘And some eggs are very pretty,
you know,’ she added,
hoping to turn her remark
into a sort of compliment.
‘Some people,’
said Humpty Dumpty,
looking away from her as usual,
‘have no more sense than a baby!’
An analyst said that.
He had confirmed.
The destruction of.
150 vehicles.
The destruction of.
150 vehicles.
More than 20km.
From the front line.
Although he said.
This likely accounted.
For about half of.
All incidents.
Alice didn’t know
what to say to this:
it wasn’t at all like
conversation, she thought,
as he never said anything to her;
in fact, his last remark
was evidently addressed to a tree
– so she stood and softly repeated to herself:
The strikes mean.
‘Mordor’ has been forced.
To shorten convoys.
On supply routes.
As a “quick coping.
Mechanism to reduce.
Potential damage”.
Another analyst said.
‘Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.’
He suggested ‘elves’.
Main objective was not only.
To strike the assets.
“Important to ‘Mordor’’s.”
To strike the assets.
“Important to ‘Mordor’’s.”
“Image of grand power”.
But to disrupt.
But to disrupt.
Key logistical convoys.
Command posts.
And communication towers.
‘Why do you sit out here
all alone?’ said Alice,
not wishing to begin
an argument.
‘Why, because there’s nobody
with me!’ cried Humpty Dumpty.
‘Did you think I didn’t know
the answer to that? Ask another.’
These “feed, fuel.
And inform ‘orcs’ units.
At the front line.”
At the front line.”
“And form the basis.
For capacity to fight.
In the battlefield.”
In the battlefield.”
“And launch long-range drone.
And missile strikes.
From occupied territories”.
From occupied territories”.
‘Don’t you think you’d be safer
Down on the ground?’
Alice went on,
not with any idea of
making another riddle,
but simply in her good-natured
anxiety for the queer creature.
‘That wall is so very narrow!’
A land warfare expert said.
That some brigades.
Were estimated to need.
Several hundred tonnes.
Of fuel, food.
Ammunition and.
Other key supplies.
Every day.
‘What tremendously easy
Riddles you ask!’
Humpty Dumpty growled out.
‘Of course I don’t think so!
Why, if ever
I did fall off
– which there’ no chance of –
but if I did –’
He said Ukraine.
Had previously used.
A long-range strike campaign.
Against ‘orcs’air defence units.
But the new drone.
Strike ranges.
“Are something else”.
“Are something else”.
Here he pursed up his lips
and looked so solemn and grand
that Alice could hardly
help laughing.
‘If I did fall,’
he went on,
‘the King has promised me –
ah, you may turn pale, if you like!
“If you are cutting.
“If you are cutting.
Resupply, for example.
Ammunition trucks.”
“100km or more.
From the front.
Using small drones.
And then longer-range drones.”
“Are going after.
Larger logistical sites.
This is a very serious problem.
For the ‘orcs’.”
You didn’t think I was
going to say that, did you?
The King has promised me
– with his very own mouth – to – to –‘
‘To send all his horses
and all his men,’
Alice interrupted,
rather unwisely.
‘Elves’ Hornet drones.
Are equipped with.
An AI-targeting system.
Which has been trained.
On thousands of hours of videos.
Of ‘orcs’ military targets.
Gathered over the last four years.
A weapons expert said.
‘Now I declare
that’s too bad!’
Humpty Dumpty cried,
breaking into a sudden passion.
‘You’ve been listening at doors
– and behind trees
– and down chimneys
– or you couldn’t have know it!’
They can also access.
The Starlink satellite network.
To connect to operators.
Over longer distances.
A system that is also.
More resistant to jamming.
More resistant to jamming.
By ‘orcs’ forces.
‘I haven’t, indeed!’
Alice said very gently.
‘It’s in a book.’
‘Ah, well! They may write
such things in a book,’
Humpty Dumpty said in a calmer tone.
‘That’s what you call
a History of England, that is.
“Ukraine can launch hundreds.
Of these loitering munitions.
Towards a rough target area.
Over 100 miles away.”
“And then use AI.
To detail them on to.
‘Orcs’ military targets.
As they find them.”
Now, take a good look at me!
I’m one that has spoken
to a King, I am:
mayhap you’ll never see such another:
and to show you I’m not proud,
you make shake hands with me!’
And he grinned
almost from ear to ear,
‘Elves’ innovative use.
Of technology means.
The war is not a stalemate.
According to an analyst.
And Kyiv is using.
Mechanised equipment.
In tactical manoeuvres.
In tactical manoeuvres.
That were impossible.
12 months ago.
That were impossible.
12 months ago.
as he leant forwards
(and as nearly as possible
fell off the wall
in doing so)
and offered Alice his hand.
She watched him
a little anxiously
as she took it.
“‘Orcs’ ability to conduct.
Infiltration missions.
Will likely continue.
To degrade.”
“As ‘elves’ intermediate-range.
Strike campaign pushes.
‘Orcs’ logistics and forward.
Operating bases further away.”
“From the front lines.
Reducing resourcing.
To sustain infantry tasked.
With infiltration missions.”
‘If he smiled much more,
the ends of his mouth
might meet behind,’
she thought:
‘and then I don’t know
what would happen to his head!
I’m afraid
it would come off!’
One of ‘elves’.
Specialist drone units.
The 412th Nemesis Brigade.
Said this week that.
‘Orcs’ commanders had.
Limited the movement.
Of heavy equipment.
In southern Ukraine.
And were attempting.
To evade drones.
By using fields.
And dirt roads.
‘Yes, all his horses
and all his men,’
Humpty Dumpty went on.
‘They’d pick me up again
in a minute, they would!
However, this conversation
is going on a little too fast:
let’s go back to the last remark but one.’
The ‘orcs’ puppet of.
The occupied areas.
In ‘elves’ Kherson region.
Has also ordered.
Restrictions on.
Civilian traffic.
Along the route.
Along the route.
‘I’m afraid
‘I’m afraid
I can’t quite remember it,’
Alice said very politely.
‘In that case we start fresh,’
said Humpty Dumpty,
‘and it’s my turn
to choose a subject –’
He said ‘elves’.
“Drone superiority” had even.
Neutralised ‘orcs’ attempts.
To gain an advantage.
By moving “overwhelming numbers”.
Of troops to the front line.
But added that the advantage.
May be shortlived.
‘Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.’
“‘Mordor’ will very likely.
Eventually develop countermeasures.
So ‘elves’ international partners have.
A rare and temporary opportunity.”
“A rare and temporary opportunity.
To exploit.
Favourable battlefield dynamics.
While Ukraine has the upper hand.”
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.
‘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?’
*Because I read “Ukraine using AI drones to strike vital convoys supplying Russian troops” by Thomas Copeland & Paul Brown on 30 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, including analysis from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), and from GeoConfirmed open source analysts, and a report of Clément Molin, a report of Robert Tollast, a report of Nick Brown, and a report of George Barros, led by ‘THROUGH the LOOKING-GLASS’ written by Lewis Carroll, you know.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
Ukraine using AI drones to strike vital Russian supply lines
