“For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light:
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
But westward, look, the land is bright.”
‘Orcs’ carried out.
A deadly large-scale.
Wave of strikes.
Against Ukraine.
Firing hundreds.
Of drones and.
Dozens of missiles.
On Saturday night.
“‘You may seek it with thimbles—and seek it with care;
You may hunt it with forks and hope;
You may threaten its life with a railway-share;
You may charm it with smiles and soap—’”
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
Kyiv was the main target.
But other areas.
Were also hit.
With about 100 people injured.
Four people were killed.
In the capital.
And wider region.
With explosions heard.
Throughout the night.
With explosions heard.
Throughout the night.
Dozens of.
Residential buildings.
A school, an opera house and.
A museum were damaged.
(“That’s exactly the method,” the Bellman bold
In a hasty parenthesis cried,
“That’s exactly the way I have always been told
That the capture of Snarks should be tried!”)
‘Orcs’ defence ministry said.
The Oreshnik hypersonic missile.
Was used in the strikes.
Which it described.
Which it described.
As coming in response.
To ‘elves’ “attacks.
On civilian infrastructure”.
‘Elves’ military denies.
Targeting civilians.
‘Elves’ military denies.
Targeting civilians.
“‘But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,
If your Snark be a Boojum! For then
You will softly and suddenly vanish away,
And never be met with again!’
Early on Monday.
Energy infrastructure was.
Damaged in a missile attack.
On ‘orcs’ Belgorod region.
Bordering Ukraine.
Including the city of Belgorod.
A news agency reported.
Citing local authorities.
There were no casualties.
But power and water supply.
Were interrupted.
It did not provide further details.
‘Orcs’ Yaroslavl region.
Northeast of Moscow.
Also came under.
A drone attack.
“It is this, it is this that oppresses my soul,
When I think of my uncle’s last words:
And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl
Brimming over with quivering curds!
‘The One’ launched.
A full-scale invasion.
Of Ukraine.
In February 2022.
He accused Kyiv of.
Hitting a student dormitory.
In the town of Starobilsk.
On Friday.
In the town of Starobilsk.
On Friday.
In which ‘orcs’ officials said.
21 people were killed.
“It is this, it is this—“ “We have had that before!”
The Bellman indignantly said.
And the Baker replied “Let me say it once more.
It is this, it is this that I dread!
‘Elves’ military said.
Its forces did carry out.
An attack in Starobilsk.
In ‘orcs’-occupied eastern Ukraine.
Overnight on Friday.
But maintained that.
It struck an elite ‘orcs’.
Drone military unit.
“I engage with the Snark—every night after dark—
In a dreamy delirious fight:
I serve it with greens in those shadowy scenes,
And I use it for striking a light:
European leaders.
Have condemned.
The ‘orcs’ strikes.
Early on Sunday.
Which came after warnings.
From ‘Gandalf the Green’.
That ‘Mordor’ was.
Planning an attack.
And that it may have been.
Preparing to use.
The Oreshnik missile.
The Oreshnik missile.
“But if ever I meet with a Boojum, that day,
In a moment (of this I am sure),
I shall softly and suddenly vanish away—
And the notion I cannot endure!”
It reportedly travels.
At more than 10 times.
The speed of sound.
Is hard to intercept.
And is known to be capable.
Of carrying both.
Conventional and.
Nuclear warheads.
The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
“If only you’d spoken before!
It’s excessively awkward to mention it now,
With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
‘Gandalf the Green’.
– who on Sunday visited.
A number of damaged.
Buildings in Kyiv –
Said that ‘Mordor’.
Had launched.
The Oreshnik missile.
The Oreshnik missile.
Against the city.
Of Bila Tserkva.
Of Bila Tserkva.
In the Kyiv region.
“We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe,
If you never were met with again—
But surely, my man, when the voyage began,
You might have suggested it then?
‘Elves’ presidential office.
Later said it was.
Not confirming.
That saying.
Work was ongoing.
To determine exactly.
What had been used.
What had been used.
It would be the third time.
‘Mordor’ has used.
The Oreshnik missile.
In the conflict.
“It’s excessively awkward to mention it now—
As I think I’ve already remarked.”
And the man they called “Hi!” replied, with a sigh,
“I informed you the day we embarked.
Both the French President.
And the German Chancellor.
Condemned the reported use.
Of the weapon.
While EU foreign policy chief.
Described it as.
A “political scare-tactic and.
Reckless nuclear-brinkmanship”.
The UK Foreign Secretary.
Lamented the “”awful scenes”.
In Kyiv and vowed to.
“Keep up pressure on ‘Mordor’”.
“You may charge me with murder—or want of sense—
(We are all of us weak at times):
But the slightest approach to a false pretence
Was never among my crimes!
At the French Open tennis tournament.
In Paris.
A tearful ‘elf’ player said.
“All my heart and.”
“All my heart and.
All my thoughts.
Go to the people.
Of Ukraine”.
After winning.
In the first round.
After winning.
In the first round.
“I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch—
I said it in German and Greek:
But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
That English is what you speak!”
And an ‘elf’ boxer.
Who on Saturday night.
Defended his heavyweight world titles.
In a fight in Egypt, said:
“I know right now.
‘Elves’ people are sitting.
In the bomb shelter.
My daughter too.”
“In a bomb shelter.
Sent me a message saying:
‘Papa, I love you.
You will win.”
“’Tis a pitiful tale,” said the Bellman, whose face
Had grown longer at every word:
“But, now that you’ve stated the whole of your case,
More debate would be simply absurd.
‘Elves’ air force said that.
From 18:00 local time.
On Saturday.
It detected.
90 missiles and.
600 drones.
It said that.
Early data showed.
55 ballistic and.
Cruise missiles.
And 549 drones.
Were shot down.
Or intercepted.
While 19 missiles.
May not have reached.
Their targets.
“The rest of my speech” (he explained to his men)
“You shall hear when I’ve leisure to speak it.
But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
‘Tis your glorious duty to seek it!
It also acknowledged that.
There were 16 direct missile.
And 51 drone hits.
In 54 locations.
Residential buildings.
Shopping centres and.
Emergency services buildings.
Were reportedly struck.
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
69 people had been injured.
In the capital alone.
In the capital alone.
While a water-supply facility.
Was also attacked and.
The Chornobyl Museum in Kyiv.
Had been “effectively destroyed”.
“To seek it with thimbles, to seek it with care;
To pursue it with forks and hope;
To threaten its life with a railway-share;
To charm it with smiles and soap!
The ‘elf’ Interior Minister said.
The attack on the museum.
Was “a deliberate attack on.
History, memory, and truth”.
Footage and pictures.
Shared by the ministry showed.
Broken glass windows and.
Rubble scattered everywhere.
“For the Snark’s a peculiar creature, that won’t
Be caught in a commonplace way.
Do all that you know, and try all that you don’t:
Not a chance must be wasted to-day!
‘Orcs’ defence ministry said.
It did not carry out.
Strikes against ‘elves’.
Civilian infrastructure.
But that command posts of.
‘Elves’ ground forces and.
The defence ministry’s main.
Intelligence directorate were hit.
Ukraine has not.
Confirmed this.
Ukraine has not.
Confirmed this.
“‘You may seek it with thimbles—and seek it with care;
You may hunt it with forks and hope;
You may threaten its life with a railway-share;
You may charm it with smiles and soap—’”
The Kyiv’s Mayor earlier said.
Two people had been killed.
In the city itself.
With 36 others.
Including two children.
In hospital.
A person was killed after.
A nine-storey residential building.
In the central Shevchenko district.
Was hit.
And a fire broke out.
On the top floors.
(“That’s exactly the method,” the Bellman bold
In a hasty parenthesis cried,
“That’s exactly the way I have always been told
That the capture of Snarks should be tried!”)
In the same district.
A strike near an air raid shelter.
At a school blocked.
Its entrance with debris.
Trapping several people inside.
Trapping several people inside.
Emergency services rushed to.
Multiple scenes of damage.
Across the city.
Putting out blazes.
Clearing debris and.
Treating the injured.
“‘But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,
If your Snark be a Boojum! For then
You will softly and suddenly vanish away,
And never be met with again!’
In the wider Kyiv region.
A further two people.
Were also killed.
According to the regional head.
He described the attack.
As “deliberate terror.
Against peaceful people”.
Against peaceful people”.
Adding that “emergency services.
Are working in all places”.
Adding that “emergency services.
Are working in all places”.
Outside Kyiv.
The regions of Cherkasy, Kharkiv.
Odesa, Poltava, Sumy and Zhytomyr.
Have also come under attack.
“For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light:
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
But westward, look, the land is bright.”
*Because I read “Large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine leaves four dead and dozens injured” by Tinshui Yeung & Yang Tian on 25 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 a story of Marta Kostyuk, and a story of Oleksandr Usyk, led by “some lines” quoted in the last part of ‘CHAPTER XVIII YUGOSLAVIA AND GREECE’ of ‘BOOK II ALONE May 10, 1940–June 22, 1941’ in ‘The Second World War: The Classic One-Volume Abridgment’ written by Winston S. Churchill, and ‘The Hunting of the Snark’ written by Lewis Carroll, you know.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
Russia-Ukraine war: Large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine leaves four dead and dozens injured
