Alice never could quite make out,
in thinking it over afterwards,
how it was that they began:
all she remembers is,
that they were running hand in hand,
and the Queen went so fast
that it was all she could do
to keep up with her:
and still the Queen kept crying
‘Faster! Faster!’ but Alice felt
she could not go faster,
though she had no breath left to say so.
The most curious part of the thing was,
that the trees and the other things
round them never changed
their places at all:
Kyiv is now.
In its fifth day of.
Virtually non-stop air strikes.
By Shahed drones.
Which began on the night.
Of 27 August.
The constant air raid alerts.
Are interrupted.
For only 20–40 minutes.
At a time.
Before resuming as another batch.
Of drones approaches.
Air defence systems.
Could be heard operating.
Throughout the day.
And evening.
Of 30 August.
And this continued.
On Monday.
31 August.
however fast they went,
they never seemed to pass anything.
‘I wonder if all the things
move along with us?’
thought poor puzzled Alice.
And the Queen seemed to guess
her thoughts, for she cried,
‘Faster! Don’t try to talk!’
On the morning.
Of 31 August.
During a fresh wave.
Of attacks.
The Kyiv City Military Administration.
Reported that a fire.
Had broken out.
In some warehouse premises.
In some warehouse premises.
In the Desnianskyi district.
Emergency services were.
Dispatched to the scene.
The authorities later.
Clarified that the fire.
Had occurred in the village.
Of Pohreby in the Kyiv region.
Not that Alice had any idea
of doing that.
She felt as if she would never
be able to talk again,
she was getting so much out of breath:
and still the Queen cried
‘Faster! Faster!’
and dragged her along.
The Mayor says.
There were six casualties.
From the attack.
On the capital.
On 31 August.
Most of them were.
Injured in the village.
Of Pohreby.
Three of the injured.
Are in a serious condition.
In local hospitals.
In local hospitals.
‘Are we nearly there?’
Alice managed to pant out at last.
‘Nearly there!’ the Queen repeated.
‘Why, we passed it ten minutes ago! Faster!’
And they ran on for a time in silence,
with the wind whistling in Alice’s ears,
and almost blowing her hair
off her head, she fancied.
Four people were injured.
Following this morning’s attack.
Following this morning’s attack.
On the Kyiv region.
Two men suffered.
Shrapnel wounds.
To their limbs and.
Were taken to hospital.
Two further injured people.
In the Brovary district.
Are receiving.
The necessary treatment.
‘Now! Now!’ cried the Queen. ‘Faster! Faster!’
And they went so fast that at last
they seemed to skim through the air,
hardly touching the ground with their feet,
till suddenly, just as
Alice was getting quite exhausted,
they stopped, and she found herself sitting
on the ground, breathless and giddy.
Damage has also been reported.
To storage facilities.
And a retail outlet.
In the Brovary district.
As well as to three warehouses.
And a high-rise building.
In the Boryspil district.
In the Boryspil district.
Videos of a major fire.
Are circulating on social media.
Some company’s warehouses are on fire.
It has not yet commented.
The Queen propped her up against a tree,
and said kindly,
‘You may rest a little now.’
Alice looked round her in great surprise.
‘Why, I do believe
we’ve been under this tree
the whole time!
Everything’s just as it was!’
The Kyiv Regional Police reported.
That a man and a woman.
Were injured overnight.
During a drone attack.
During a drone attack.
In the Boryspil district.
In the Fastiv district.
A 22-year-old woman was injured;
Paramedics treated her.
At the scene.
Another woman was injured.
Another woman was injured.
In the Vyshhorod region.
In the Brovary district.
A 56-year-old woman was injured.
When debris fell on her.
‘Of course it is,’ said the Queen:
‘what would you have it?’
‘Well, in our country,’
said Alice, still panting a little,
‘you’d generally get to somewhere else
– if you ran very fast
for a long time,
as we’ve been doing.’
‘A slow sort of country!’
said the Queen.
‘Now, here, you see, it takes
all the running you can do,
to keep in the same place.
If you want to get somewhere else,
you must run at least twice
as fast as that!’
*Because I read “П’ятий день безперервних атак на Київ: у селі Погреби на Київщині палають склади, є поранені(Fifth day of continuous attacks on Kyiv: warehouses are burning in the village of Pohreby in the Kyiv region, there are injured) ” on 30 Aug 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, led by ‘THROUGH the LOOKING-GLASS’ written by Lewis Carroll, you know.
Please read the original story on the BBC news Ukraine:
