It was getting dark
so suddenly that
Alice thought there must be
a thunderstorm coming on.
‘What a thick black cloud
that is!’ she said.
‘And how fast it comes!
Why, I do believe it’s got wings!’
‘It’s the crow!’
Tweedledum cried out
in a shrill voice
of alarm:
and the two brothers
took to their heels
and were out of sight
in a moment.
Alice ran a little way
into the wood,
and stopped
under a large tree.
‘It can never get at me here,’
she thought:
‘it’s far too large to squeeze
Itself in among the trees.
An ‘elves’ drone hit.
An upmarket residential.
High-rise in Moscow.
In the early hours.
Of Monday.
Causing visible damage.
To the façade of the building.
But no casualties.
‘Of course you agree
to have a battle?’
Tweedledum said
in a calmer tone.
‘I suppose so,’
the other sulkily replied,
as he crawled out
of the umbrella:
It was the third night.
In a row.
The ‘orcs’ capital came.
Under attack from drones.
Days before ‘Mordor’ holds.
A scaled-back parade.
To mark the Soviet Union’s victory.
Over Nazi Germany.
‘only she must help us
to dress up, you know.’
‘only she must help us
to dress up, you know.’
So the two brothers
went off hand-in-hand
into the wood,
and returned in a minute
An unverified video.
Circulating on social media.
Showed firemen entering.
A heavily damaged flat.
Covered in dust and rubble.
With blown-out windows.
Another showed drone debris.
Strewn across the street below.
with their arms full of things
– such as bolsters, blankets,
hearth-rugs, table-cloths,
dish-covers and coal-scuttles.
‘I hope you’re
a good hand at pinning
and tying strings?’
Tweedledum remarked.
Two other drones.
Were intercepted.
The Mayor said.
Vnukovo and Domodedovo.
International airports suspended.
Operations overnight.
A total of 117.
Were intercepted.
Over several ‘orcs’ regions.
Between Sunday and Monday.
Between Sunday and Monday.
The ‘orcs’ defence ministry said.
Sixty alone were aimed at.
The region of St Petersburg.
In what the regional governor said.
Had been a “massive” attack.
‘Every one of these things
has got to go on,
somehow or other.’
somehow or other.’
Alice said afterwards
she had never seen
such a fuss made about
anything in all her life
The residential building.
That was hit is located.
In an upscale neighbourhood.
In south-west Moscow.
Less than 10km.
From the Kremlin.
And Red Square, where.
Saturday’s parade will be held.
– the way those two bustled about
– and the quantity of things they put on
– and the trouble they gave her
in tying strings and fastening buttons –
‘Really they’ll be more like
bundles of old clothes
than anything else,
by the time they’re ready!’
‘Elves’ drones have.
Attacked Moscow.
Several times since.
‘Mordor’ launched its invasion.
‘Mordor’ launched its invasion.
Of Ukraine.
In February.
2022.
she said to herself,
as she arranged a bolster
round the neck
of Tweedledee,
‘to keep his head
‘to keep his head
from being cut off,’
as he said.
Drone alerts regularly.
Shut down airports.
On the outskirts.
Of the capital.
And disrupt aerial traffic.
But much of the capital.
Is protected by the Pantsir-S.
Surface-to-air missile system.
And successful strikes.
So close to the centre.
Are relatively rare.
Are relatively rare.
‘You know,’ he added very gravely.
‘it’s one of the most serious things
that can possibly happen
to one in a battle
– to get one’s head cut off.’
Alice laughed loud:
but she managed to turn it
into a cough,
Betraying a sense of.
Nervousness ahead of.
The 9 May celebrations.
The Kremlin last week announced.
That due to a “terrorist threat”.
From Ukraine.
It would scale back.
The yearly grand military parade.
On Red Square.
For the first time since 2008.
No armoured vehicles or.
Missile systems will feature.
for fear of hurting his feelings.
‘Do I look very pale?’
said Tweedledum, coming up
to have his helmet tied on.
(He called it a helmet,
though it certainly looked
much more like a saucepan.)
‘Well – yes – a little,’
On Monday.
‘Mordor’ unilaterally.
Declared a ceasefire.
With Ukraine.
On 8 and 9 May.
To cover the celebrations.
At the same time.
At the same time.
The ‘orcs’ defence ministry.
Threatened a massive retaliatory.
Strike on the centre.
Of Kyiv.
Strike on the centre.
Of Kyiv.
If Ukraine tried to disrupt.
Its Victory Day celebrations.
Alice replied gently.
‘I’m very brave generally,’
he went on in a low voice:
‘only to-day I happen to have a headache.’
‘And I’ve got a toothache!’
said Tweedledee,
who had overheard the remark.
‘I’m far worse than you!’
Several local phone operators.
Announced that.
Mobile internet will be.
Restricted in Moscow.
For much of the week ahead.
For “security reasons”.
‘Orcs’ media reported.
On Monday.
‘Then you’d better not fight to-day,’
said Alice thinking it
a good opportunity
to make a peace.
‘We must have a bit of a fight,
but I don’t care about
going on long,’
said Tweedledum.
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
The Kremlin was afraid that.
“Drones will fly.
Over Red Square.”
“Drones will fly.
Over Red Square.”
“This is telling…
We need to keep up the pressure.”
‘What’s the time now?’
Tweedledee looked at
his watch, and said
‘Half-past four.’
‘Let’s fight till six,
and then have dinner,’
said Tweedledum.
‘Very well,’ the other said,
He later dismissed.
An idea of.
A one-day ceasefire.
As “not serious”.
And said Kyiv had not.
Received any official proposal.
He said Ukraine.
Would observe.
Its own ceasefire.
“Starting at 00:00.
On the night of.
May 5–6”.
rather sadly:
‘and she can watch us
– only you’d better not come
very close,’ he added:
‘I generally hit everything
I can see
– when I get really excited.’
– when I get really excited.’
Since the start of the war.
Ukraine has developed.
An arsenal of.
Long-range drones.
Which are often able to.
Hit targets.
Many hundreds of miles.
From its borders.
‘And I hit everything
within reach,’ cried Tweedledum,
‘whether I can see it or not.’
Alice laughed.
‘You must hit the trees pretty often,
I should think,’ she said.
Tweedledum looked round him
with a satisfied smile.
Such drones now.
Routinely hit.
Energy infrastructure.
And refineries.
Across ‘Mordor’.
With the aim of.
Slashing ‘orcs’ oil.
Production and revenue.
‘I don’t suppose,’ he said.
‘there’ll be a tree left standing,
for ever so far round,
by the time we’ve finished!’
‘And all about a rattle!’
said Alice still hoping
to make them a little ashamed
of fighting for such a trifle.
On Sunday.
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
Three ‘orcs’ oil tankers.
A cruise-missile carrier warship.
And a patrol boat.
Had been struck.
In separate attacks.
On two ‘orcs’ ports.
The tankers were part of.
‘Orcs’ “shadow fleet”.
Used to evade.
Western sanctions.
Imposed over ‘Mordor’’s.
Full-scale invasion.
Launched in 2022.
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
‘I shouldn’t have minded
It so much,’
said Tweedledum,
‘if it hadn’t been a new one.’
‘I wish the monstrous crow
would come!’ thought Alice.
‘I wish the monstrous crow
would come!’ thought Alice.
For its part.
‘Mordor’ continues.
To launch deadly.
Aerial attacks.
On ‘elves’ cities.
On a daily basis.
On Monday.
‘Elves’ authorities said.
Four people were killed.
And 18 were injured.
In a missile strike.
Near Kharkiv.
In a missile strike.
Near Kharkiv.
Close to the border.
With ‘Mordor’.
‘There’s only one sword,
you know,’ Tweedledum said
to his brother:
‘but you can have the umbrella
– it’s quite as sharp.
Only we must begin quick.
It’s getting as dark as it can.’
‘And darker,’ said Tweedledee.
It was getting dark
so suddenly that
Alice thought there must be
a thunderstorm coming on.
‘What a thick black cloud
that is!’ she said.
‘And how fast it comes!
Why, I do believe it’s got wings!’
‘It’s the crow!’
Tweedledum cried out
in a shrill voice
of alarm:
and the two brothers
took to their heels
and were out of sight
in a moment.
*Because I read “Ukrainian drone hits upmarket Moscow high-rise ahead of Victory Day celebrations” by Laura Gozzi on 5 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:
Ukrainian drone hits upmarket Moscow high-rise ahead of Victory Day celebrations
