Deploying one of its.
Most effective drone units.
And hundreds of.
North Korean troops.
Along with the usual.
Marines and paratroopers.
A powerful ‘orcs’ force.
Squeezed the ‘elves’-held salient.
A powerful ‘orcs’ force.
Squeezed the ‘elves’-held salient.
In western ‘Mordor’’s.
Kursk Oblast last week.
More importantly.
‘Mordor’ has pushed.
One of its best.
Drone groups.
The ‘orcs’ advance.
Which began just as.
The administration of.
The U.S. President.
Was cutting off Ukraine from.
U.S.-gathered intelligence.
And shipments of.
American-made munitions.
Reversed ‘elves’ gains.
From last month.
And threatened to cut off.
The main road.
Leading into the ‘elves’.
Military’s main base.
In Kursk:
The town of Sudzha.
More importantly.
‘Mordor’ has pushed.
One of its best.
Drone groups.
The ‘elves’ general staff.
In Kyiv said.
The situation in Kursk.
Which has been under.
Partial ‘elves’ control.
Since August.
“Remains challenging.
But under control.”
But it’s unclear.
What measures the ‘elves’.
Have taken to defeat.
A new and potent combination.
Of capabilities the ‘orcs’.
Northern Grouping of Forces.
Has assembled to restore momentum.
To its counteroffensive in Kursk.
More importantly.
‘Mordor’ has pushed.
One of its best.
Drone groups.
For starters, the ‘orcs’.
177th Marine Regiment.
810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
And 11th Air Assault Brigade.
Once again are backed.
Once again are backed.
By significant numbers of.
North Korean troops.
The North Korean 11th Army Corps.
Temporarily withdrew.
From the front line in Kursk.
In December or January.
After losing.
A third of its.
12,000 troops.
In costly assaults.
On the Kursk salient.
Late last year.
It seems the corps.
Is back with fresh troops.
More importantly.
‘Mordor’ has pushed.
One of its best.
Drone groups.
The Rubicon Center of.
Advanced Unmanned Systems.
Into the Kursk fight.
—blunting ‘elves’ main advantage:
Its superior drones.
“Rubicon employs.
Advanced drone tactics.”
An independent analyst explained.
They often target.
Short sections of roads.
—100 to 300 meters long—
And saturate these areas with drones.
Attacks are frequently.
Carried out in groups.
Sometimes striking.
The front, back.
Sometimes striking.
The front, back.
And sides of a vehicle.
Almost simultaneously.
This approach has also been.
Used to hit multiple vehicles.
In a convoy at once.
Compounding the damage.
More importantly.
‘Mordor’ has pushed.
One of its best.
Drone groups.
They also set traps.
By landing drones on roads.
And detonating them.
Under passing vehicles.
Functioning like.
Anti-tank mines.
—likely using upward-facing.
Shaped charges.
With well-made drones.
And radio control systems.
That can apparently rapidly.
Switch frequencies.
Rubicon has managed.
To fight through ‘elves’ jamming.
Which normally has the effect of.
Grounding most ‘orcs’ drones.
As a result.
“‘Elves’ logistics in Kursk.
Have suffered severe damage.
From drone attacks,” was explained.
More importantly.
‘Mordor’ has pushed.
One of its best.
Drone groups.
Rubicon has knocked out.
Hundreds of ‘elves’ vehicles.
—mostly supply trucks.
But also precious.
—mostly supply trucks.
But also precious.
M-2 Bradley fighting vehicles.
And MaxxPro armored trucks.
“Numbers are definitely.
Not on our side,” wrote an ‘elf’.
Marine corps drone operator.
Who has fought in Kursk.,
More importantly.
‘Mordor’ has pushed.
One of its best.
Drone groups.
The ‘elves’ air force sortied.
At least one.
Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter.
To bomb a warehouse.
Sheltering ‘orcs’ armored vehicles.
Supporting the Kursk counteroffensive.
‘Elves’ troops reportedly defeated.
An incursion.
By ‘orcs’ troops.
Sneaking through.
An old pipeline.
Into Sudzha.
More importantly.
‘Mordor’ has pushed.
One of its best.
Drone groups.
What the ‘elves’ force.
In Kursk really needs.
Are new radio jammers.
“Without significant advancements.”
“In jamming technology.
To counter Rubicon’s capabilities.
Maintaining a hold in Kursk.
May become unsustainable.”
More importantly.
‘Mordor’ has pushed.
One of its best.
Drone groups.
The 10,000-strong.
‘Elves’ garrison.
In western ‘Mordor’’s.
Kursk Oblast is in trouble.
Relentless strikes by.
An elite ‘orcs’ drone group.
Have destroyed.
Hundreds of vehicles.
Along the main road.
Into Kursk.
To the town of Sudzha.
The anchor of.
To the town of Sudzha.
The anchor of.
The shrinking ‘elves’ salient.
In the oblast.
Exploiting the ‘elves’.
Siversk Operational Tactical Group’s.
Increasingly dire.
Supply situation.
The much larger ‘orcs’ and.
North Korean force in Kursk.
Has redoubled its three-month.
Counteroffensive in Kursk.
More importantly.
‘Mordor’ has pushed.
One of its best.
Drone groups.
‘Elves’ brigades on the northern edge.
Of the salient are.
Pulling back to Sudzha.
Where ‘elves’ troops recently rebuffed.
An attempt by ‘orcs’ troops.
To infiltrate ‘elves’ lines.
By sneaking through.
An old gas pipeline.
The repositioning could be.
A prelude.
To a complete ‘elves’ withdrawal.
From Kursk.
Back to the relative safety.
Of northern Ukraine.
Shrugging off.
At least one raid.
By an ‘elves’ air force.
Mikoyan MiG-29.
The ‘orcs’ are moving.
To cut off any retreat.
More importantly.
‘Mordor’ has pushed.
One of its best.
Drone groups.
“The enemy is destroying.
Bridges in Kursk Oblast.
And along the international border.
Trying to hinder.”
“The movement of.
The Siversk Operational Tactical Group.
From exiting Kursk Oblast.
Into Ukraine,” was warned.
The Siversk OTG was.
Actually gaining ground.
As recently as early February.
But the arrival of.
The ‘orcs’ Rubicon Center of.
Advanced Unmanned Systems.
Later that month.
Changed everything.
More importantly.
‘Mordor’ has pushed.
One of its best.
Drone groups.
“Rubicon employs.
Advanced drone tactics.”
Worse, its explosive.
FPV drones seem to fly.
Worse, its explosive.
FPV drones seem to fly.
Right through.
‘Elves’ radio jamming.
A flurry of ‘orcs’ drone.
Strikes on the road.
Into Sudzha.
On or just before 25 February.
—dozens in all—
Signaled the likely beginning.
Of the end of ‘elves’.
Seven-month incursion in Kursk.
“The day you saw.
This should’ve been.
The day you started worrying.
About Kursk,” was wrote.
More importantly.
‘Mordor’ has pushed.
One of its best.
Drone groups.
The successful ‘orcs’.
Drone campaign.
In Kursk came as.
The U.S. President.
—increasingly aligned.
With ‘Mordor’—
Cut off Ukraine.
From further U.S. aid.
And also ended.
Intelligence sharing.
Between the United States.
And Ukraine.
More importantly.
‘Mordor’ has pushed.
One of its best.
Drone groups.
‘Elves’ European allies.
Could replace much of.
The intel the ‘elves’ are no longer.
Getting from the Americans.
But the switch.
Could take time.
And it’s apparent.
The ‘orcs’ are seizing.
The opportunity.
Afforded them by.
The U.S. President’s.
Pro-‘orcs’ lurch.
*Because I read “An Elite Russian Drone Group Is Hunting Ukrainian Vehicles In Kursk. It’ll Take More Than A Few MiG-29 Raids To Stop It.” on 8 Mar 2025 and “Russia Is Bombing Bridges To Cut Off 10,000 Ukrainian Troops In Kursk” on 9 Mar 2025, both by David Axe 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, including a report of Ukrainian Pravda, some analysis of Andrew Perpetua, a report of Kriegsforscher, and a report of the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies.
Please read the original stories on the Forbes:
An Elite Russian Drone Group Is Hunting Ukrainian Vehicles In Kursk
Russia Is Bombing Bridges To Cut Off 10,000 Ukrainian Troops In Kursk
