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.
On the morning.
Of 10 October.
‘Orcs’ forces struck.
‘Orcs’ forces struck.
A five-storey residential block.
In Zaporizhzhia.
In Zaporizhzhia.
With guided aerial bombs.
Following the completion of.
Search and rescue operations.
‘Gandalf the Green’ stated that.
23 people had been killed.
In the attack.
Including four children.
And that more than 30 others.
Had been injured.
Here she checked herself
in some alarm,
at hearing something
that sounded to her
like the puffing of
a large steam-engine
in the wood near them,
though she feared
“‘Mordor’ expressed.
Its gratitude for.
The lifting of sanctions.
On diesel exports.”
“By dropping.
Five KAB bombs.
On residential buildings.
In Zaporizhzhia.”
‘Gandalf the Green’ said.
In response.
To the attack.
To the attack.
it was more likely
to be a wild beast.
‘Are there any lions or tigers
about here?’ she asked timidly.
‘It’s only the Red King
snoring,’ said Tweedledee.
‘Come and look at him!’
the brothers cried,
During the day.
Debris from ‘orcs’ drones.
Fell in several districts.
Of Kyiv.
Overnight.
13 regions of Ukraine.
Came under attack.
Resulting in damage.
To residential buildings.
To infrastructure.
And to the railway.
‘Gandalf the Green’ added.
and they took each one of
Alice’s hands,
and led her up to where
the King was sleeping.
‘Isn’t he a lovely sight?’
said Tweedledum.
Alice couldn’t say
honestly that he was.
As a result of.
The strike in Zaporizhzhia.
One of the building’s entrances.
Has been partially destroyed.
Structures collapsed.
Structures collapsed.
At the level of.
The second floor.
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.
The Zaporizhzhia Regional Defence Council.
Has reported that.
Other residential buildings.
Have been damaged.
There are reports.
Of injured people.
And those trapped.
Under the rubble.
‘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?’
At around five o’clock.
In the morning.
The ‘elves’ Air Force reported.
That ‘orcs’ forces.
Had launched.
guided bombs.
From tactical aircraft.
Heading towards Zaporizhzhia.
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?’
Earlier, the acting head of.
The Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration.
Had reported that.
One more person may.
Still be trapped.
Under the rubble.
Rescue workers are continuing.
Their search operations.
The number of.
Casualties has risen.
To 32 people.
To 32 people.
‘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!’
“Among the injured.
Are two children:
A 14-year-old girl and.
A 12-year-old boy.”
“Both are in.
A moderately serious condition.”
Said the co-chair of.
The Regional Defence Council.
‘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
Two of the injured are.
In a serious condition.
Two have minor injuries.
And a further seven are.
In a moderate condition.
Four people have been hospitalized.
Five are receiving.
Outpatient treatment.
And two more are.
Undergoing medical examinations.
According to him.
The attack damaged at least.
The attack damaged at least.
26 residential buildings.
– 23 high-rise blocks.
And three private houses –
In the Shevchenkivskyi and.
Voznesenivskyi districts.
In the Shevchenkivskyi and.
Voznesenivskyi districts.
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,
11 October was.
Declared a day.
Of mourning.
In Zaporizhzhia.
Photos and videos.
From the site of.
One of the strikes.
In Zaporizhzhia.
Show an apartment block.
Mostly destroyed.
Show an apartment block.
Mostly destroyed.
‘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
“The ground floor was hit and.
The floors above just collapsed.”
The acting Mayor said.
From the scene.
She said more than.
80 workers were involved.
In ongoing search.
And rescue operations.
Which are expected.
To continue.
Throughout the day.
Throughout the day.
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 rescuers regularly.
Stop to listen.
The rescuers regularly.
Stop to listen.
For any noises.
Made by survivors.
Who could be.
Under the rubble.
‘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.’
She said ‘orcs’ had struck.
At “our very heart”.
And “our littlest ones”.
Were among those killed.
Adding that their deaths.
Were “awful grief.
For their families.
For the city.”
‘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.’
Zaporizhzhia is.
A major regional centre.
With more than.
700,000 residents.
It is located less than.
10 miles from the front line.
And is frequently attacked by.
‘Orcs’ drones and missiles.
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.
‘Gandalf the Green’ was.
Quick to criticise.
The US President’s.
Diesel deal with ‘Mordor’.
Calling it a gift.
To ‘the One’.
Calling it a gift.
To ‘the One’.
He added that.
13 other regions.
Had come under.
Attack overnight.
Arguing this demonstrated.
‘Mordor’ took “any easing.
Of pressure to mean.
They can keep fighting”.
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.’
Analysts view the deal.
As an attempt.
As an attempt.
By the US president.
To allay domestic concerns.
About high fuel prices.
Ahead of the upcoming.
Midterm elections.
‘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,
Both ‘Mordor’ and Ukraine.
Have stepped up attacks.
On infrastructure.
In recent months.
As ‘Mordor’’s full-scale invasion.
Launched in 2022.
Drags on.
Drags on.
‘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,
On Thursday.
At least 33 people.
Were killed in another ‘orcs’.
Glide bomb attack.
On two civilian buses.
On two civilian buses.
In Kramatorsk.
In the eastern Donetsk region.
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.’
The day before.
22 people including.
Five children died.
As an ‘orcs’ missile hit.
An apartment block.
In the town of Pryluky.
In the town of Pryluky.
East of Kyiv.
‘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.
The number of.
Civilian casualties.
In Ukraine jumped.
By 55%.
In the first eight months.
Of this year.
Of this year.
According to the UN.
‘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.
‘Mordor’ has also.
Stepped up its attacks on.
‘Elves’ energy infrastructure.
As winter approaches.
A strategy.
A strategy.
It has undertaken.
In previous years.
‘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.
Kyiv has repeatedly.
Accused it of targeting.
‘Elves’ civilian population.
Which Moscow denies.
For its part.
Ukraine has increasingly.
Adopted a policy of.
Striking infrastructure.
Often deep inside ‘Mordor’.
That is crucial to its economy.
Including several.
Oil refineries and terminals.
‘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.
Several strikes.
On data centres.
Owned by Yandex.
Have left.
The tech giant.
Struggling to.
Struggling to.
Maintain services.
Kyiv says its strikes.
Are aimed at.
Curtailing revenue streams.
For ‘orcs’ war machine.
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 “У Запоріжжі 23 загиблих від удару Росії, Львів вперше атакував реактивний шахед (23 killed in Zaporizhia from Russian strike, Lviv attacked by jet fighter for the first time)” on 10 Oct 2026 on the BBC news Ukraine, “Russian glide bomb attack on Zaporizhzhia kills at least 20 people” by Vitaly Shevchenko & Tom McArthur on 10 Oct 2026 and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 Apr 2022, both 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 stories on the BBC news Ukraine and on the BBC news:
У Запоріжжі 23 загиблих від удару Росії, Львів вперше атакував реактивний шахед – BBC News Україна
Ukraine war: Russian glide bomb attack on Zaporizhzhia kills at least 20 people
