POETS CONDEMNING ｜ Koryu meets Chess

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,

‘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,’

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!

‘Elves’ main government building.

In Kyiv has been hit.

For the first time.

In the war.

For the first time.

In the war.

During ‘orcs’ attacks.

The ‘elf’ prime minister has said.

She said the building’s roof.

And upper floors were damaged.

And a fire ignited.

“Due to an enemy attack”.

‘But it may rain outside?’

‘It may – if it chooses,’

said Tweedledee:

‘we’ve no objection.

Contrariwise.’

‘Selfish things!’ thought Alice,

and she was just going to say

‘Good-night’ and leave them,

At least four people.

Were killed in strikes.

Across the country.

Including a baby.

And a young woman.

Who died after.

A nine-storey residential.

Building was hit.

In Kyiv’s Svyatoshynsky district.

Officials said.

Do you think it’s going to rain?’

Tweedledum spread

a large umbrella over

himself and his brother,

and looked up into it.

‘No, I don’t think it is,’

he said: ‘at least

– not under here. Nohow.’

‘Elves’ air force reported.

That a record number of.

Drones and missiles.

Were launched.

By ‘Mordor’.

In the latest nightly attack.

– more than 800.

In total.

So she brushed away her tears,

and went on

as cheerfully as she could,

‘At any rate

I’d better be getting out

of the wood,

for really it’s coming on

very dark.

According to the air force.

Nine missiles and.

56 drones hit.

37 locations.

And the downed wreckage.

Fell at eight locations.

And the downed wreckage.

Fell at eight locations.

‘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.’

‘Gandalf the Green’ said.

The barrage caused damage.

In the cities of Zaporizhzhia.

Kryvyi Rih and Odesa.

As well as in the Sumy.

And Chernihiv regions.

“Such killings now.

At a time.”

“Such killings now.

At a time.

When real diplomacy could.

Have started a long time ago.”

“Are a deliberate crime.

And an attempt.

To prolong the war.”

‘Gandalf the Green’ said.

On social media.

Urging political will.

From the world.

To stop the attacks.

‘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.’

The Kyiv government building.

That was hit is also.

Known as the cabinet.

Of ministers building.

As it houses.

The offices of.

‘Elves’ main ministers.

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.

The Kyiv mayor suggested.

A drone may have.

Accidentally hit.

The cabinet building.

After being intercepted.

Although the details.

Remained unclear.

On Sunday.

“In Pechersk district.

A fire broke out.

In a government building.

As a result.”

“As a result.

Of an UAV.

Possibly being shot down.”

He wrote on Telegram.

‘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

This is a new twist.

In ‘orcs’ attacks.

On Ukraine.

Until now.

No government building.

Has been hit.

– the centre of Kyiv.

Is very heavily defended.

It has been since the start.

Of the full-scale invasion.

So this will shake people.

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,

It is a symbolic strike.

It also shows clearly that.

‘The One’’s talk about.

Being ready for peace.

Is all posturing.

He is not stopping.

Instead, ‘Mordor’ is.

Intensifying its attacks.

‘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

You were not allowed.

Close to the cabinet building.

The whole area is.

Behind a checkpoint.

Because all the main.

Official buildings are there.

– government, parliament.

And the presidential palace.

‘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!’

But earlier on Sunday.

You saw a large column of.

Smoke rising into the sky.

From just behind the Maidan.

You saw a large column of.

Smoke rising into the sky.

From just behind the Maidan.

Independence Square.

Then you heard and saw.

Two ‘orcs’ cruise missiles.

Moving at very high speed.

Before another explosion.

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?’

At a block of flats.

In Kyiv that was hit.

One woman and her husband.

Were asleep.

When the strike shattered.

Their windows.

And covered them.

In glass.

“At least we’re alive.”

She said, deeply saddened.

By the death of.

A young woman neighbour.

By the death of.

A young woman neighbour.

With her baby.

“At least we’re alive.”

‘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?’

People say the family.

Had only just moved.

Into the apartment and.

That the woman’s husband.

Is in hospital.

Badly hurt.

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.

An ‘elf’ footballer’s flat.

In Kyiv was also left.

Severely damaged.

After an ‘orcs’ drone struck.

While his wife and.

Children were inside.

The 23-year-old said.

On Instagram.

He is away.

On international duty.

With Ukraine.

But posted.

Pictures and videos.

Of the aftermath.

It was not clear.

Whether his family was hurt.

In the attack.

The White Queen gave a deep sigh,

and laid her head on Alice’s shoulder.

‘I am so sleepy!’ she moaned.

‘She’s tired, poor thing!’

said the Red Queen.

‘Smooth her hair

– lend her your nightcap

– and sing her a soothing lullaby.’

Kyiv officials said several.

Multi-storey residential buildings.

In the Svyatoshynkyi.

And Darnytskyi districts.

In the Svyatoshynkyi.

And Darnytskyi districts.

Were partially destroyed.

After direct hits.

‘I haven’t got a nightcap

with me,’ said Alice,

as she tried to obey

the first direction:

‘and I don’t know any soothing lullabies.’

‘I must do it myself, then,’

said the Red Queen,

and she began:

Elsewhere in Ukraine.

17 people were injured.

In a strike.

On the city of Zaporizhzhia.

Where several buildings.

Including homes and.

A nursery were hit.

The regional administration head said.

Outside the city.

A woman was killed.

And a man was missing.

After an ‘orcs’ glide bomb hit.

A woman was killed.

And a man was missing.

After an ‘orcs’ glide bomb hit.

The Novopavlivka village.

‘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!

Another person was killed.

In Safonivka.

In the Sumy region.

And another in the Chernihiv region.

‘Mordor’ also attacked Kryvyi Rih.

‘Gandalf the Green’’s hometown.

In central Ukraine, where.

Three infrastructure facilities were hit.

Air raid warnings.

Were activated overnight.

For all of.

The country’s regions.

‘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.

There were also strikes.

From Ukraine into ‘Mordor’.

The ‘Mordor’’s defence ministry said.

Its air defence forces shot down.

Or intercepted.

69 ‘elves’ drones.

In a number of.

‘Orcs’ regions.

At least three civilians.

Were killed and.

Buildings were damaged.

In the Belgorod region.

‘Elves’ drones hit.

The key ‘orcs’ oil pipeline Druzhba.

The ‘elves’ unmanned aerial forces.

Commander said.

He said a pumping station.

In ‘Mordor’’s Bryansk region.

Was struck.

‘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.

Earlier this week.

‘The One’ rejected.

Western proposals.

For a “reassurance force”.

In Ukraine.

The day after any ceasefire.

Comes into place.

Following a Paris summit.

Aimed at finalising plans.

For security guarantees.

‘I don’t think it

ever happened before,

that anyone had to take care of

two Queens asleep at once!

No, not in all the History of England

– it couldn’t, you know,

because there never was

more than one Queen at a time.

The British Prime Minister condemned.

Sunday’s attack in Ukraine.

Saying they showed that.

“‘The One’ believes.”

“‘The One’ believes.

He can act with impunity”.

And “is not serious.

About peace.”

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,

The French President said.

26 of ‘elves’ allies had.

Formally committed.

To deploying troops.

“By land, sea or air”.

To help provide security.

The moment fighting.

Was brought to a halt.

To deploying troops.

“By land, sea or air”.

To help provide security.

He gave no further details.

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.

‘The One’ sought to quash.

The allies’ initiative.

Warning that any troops.

Deployed to Ukraine.

Would be “legitimate targets”.

Deployed to Ukraine.

Would be “legitimate targets”.

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