Take vantage,
heavy eyes,
not to behold
This shameful lodging.
Fortune, good night:
smile once more;
turn thy wheel!
turn thy wheel!
The commander of.
The Third Army Corps of.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Has reported.
That ‘elves’ forces.
Have liberated.
A further three settlements.
In the Donetsk region.
Near the town of Lyman.
Where the ‘elves’.
Counter-offensive operation.
‘Vivaldi’ is underway.
After a while
the noise seemed gradually
to die away,
till all was dead silence,
and Alice lifted up
her head in some alarm.
There was no one to be seen,
and her first thought was that
He wrote that.
The Third Corps had liberated.
The villages of.
Shandryholove and Derylove.
And had also.
“Established full control”.
Over Drobyshev.
Over Drobyshev.
she must have been dreaming
about the Lion and the Unicorn
and those queer
Anglo-Saxon Messengers.
However, there was the great dish
still lying at her feet,
on which she had tried to cut
the plum-cake,
These villages are situated.
Near the Nitrus River.
Between Lyman.
And Sviatohirsk.
Towards which.
The ‘orcs’ army.
Had been attempting.
To advance.
‘So I wasn’t dreaming, after all,’
she said to herself,
‘unless – unless we’re all part of
the same dream.
Only I do hope it’s my dream,
and not the Red King’s!
I don’t like belonging to
another person’s dream,’
Over the past few weeks.
The ‘elves’ Armed Forces.
Have been reporting.
On a counter-offensive.
In the Lyman area.
In early September.
A detailed account of.
The events there were provided.
she went on
in a rather complaining tone:
‘I’ve a great mind to go and
wake him, and see what happens!’
At this moment
her thoughts were interrupted
by a loud shouting of
‘Ahoy! Ahoy! Check!
According to the commander.
Of the ‘elves’ Third Army Corps.
During the second phase.
Of the operation.
The ‘elves’ military.
Regained control of.
A further 40 km².
Of territory.
and a Knight,
dressed in crimson armour,
came galloping down upon her,
brandishing a great club.
Just as he reached her,
the horse stopped suddenly:
‘You’re my prisoner!’ the Knight cried,
as he tumbled off his horse.
In total.
As part of Operation ‘Vivaldi’.
The ‘elves’ military has already.
Regained control of.
125 km² of territory.
Including 50 km².
That has been de-occupied.
The commander stated.
Startled as she was,
Alice was more frightened
for him than for herself
at the moment,
and watched him with some anxiety
as he mounted again.
As soon as he was
comfortably in the saddle,
He publicly announced.
Operation ‘Vivaldi’.
Operation ‘Vivaldi’.
On 15 September.
However, the first phase.
Of the operation.
Began as early as.
May–June 2026.
And proceeded.
For some time.
Without any.
Public announcement.
he began once more
‘You’re my –’
but here another voice
broke in
‘Ahoy! Ahoy! Check!’
and Alice looked round
in some surprise
for the new enemy.
During the first phase.
During the first phase.
The ‘elves’ military destroyed.
‘Orcs’ infiltration cells.
And attempted to cut off.
The ‘orcs’ salient.
In the direction.
Of Sviatohirsk.
This time it was
a White Knight.
He drew up at Alice’s side,
and tumbled off his horse
just as the Red Knight had done:
then he got on again,
and the two Knights sat and
looked at each other
The ‘elves’ Armed Forces.
Liberated and cleared.
In particular, Yarova.
Novoselivka and Seredne.
And also cut off part of.
The ‘orcs’ logistics routes.
The commander reported.
At the time.
for some time
without speaking.
Alice looked from one to the other
in some bewilderment.
‘She’s my prisoner, you know!’
the Red Knight said at last.
‘Yes, but then I came and rescued her!’
the White Knight replied.
The main fighting is.
Currently taking place.
Between the Nitrus and.
Chornyi Zherebets rivers.
According to the ‘elves’ side.
And military analysts.
The ‘elves’ Armed Forces.
Have liberated.
A significant part of.
This territory and.
Are advancing eastwards.
Are advancing eastwards.
‘Well, we must fight for her, then,
said the Red Knight,
as he took up his helmet
and put it on.
‘You will observe
the Rules of Battle, of course?’
the White Knight remarked,
putting on his helmet too.
According to the commander.
Of the 3rd Army Corps.
UAVs and.
Unmanned ground vehicles.
Always lead the way.
Always lead the way.
Ahead of the infantry.
During assaults.
‘I always do,’
said the Red Knight,
and they began banging away
at each other
with such fury that
Alice got behind a tree
to be out of the way
of the blows.
“The 3rd Army Corps was.
The first in the world.
To begin deploying.
Ground-based robotic systems.”
“Our heavy bombers are.
Delivering kamikaze UAVs.
More than 10 kilometres.
Behind enemy lines.”
Take vantage,
heavy eyes,
not to behold
This shameful lodging.
Fortune, good night:
smile once more;
turn thy wheel!
turn thy wheel!
*Because I read “Операція “Вівальді”: ЗСУ звільнили ще три села під Лиманом(Operation “Vivaldi”: The Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated three more villages near Lyman)” on 15 Sep 2026 on the BBC news Ukraine, 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 a story of Gen. Biletsky, led by ‘KING LEAR’ written by William Shakespeare and ‘THROUGH the LOOKING-GLASS’ written by Lewis Carroll, you know.
Please read the original story on the BBC news Ukraine:
Операція “Вівальді”: ЗСУ звільнили ще три села під Лиманом – BBC News Україна
