Author: Kurama

In a verified video filmed. In the Pecherskyi District. Kyiv’s second oldest. Roman Catholic church.   St Nicholas Cathedral. Is shown with. Windows shattered. Following a nearby blast.     At least one person was killed. And nine others were injured. In the strike which damaged. A number of buildings in Kyiv.   It is […]

The North Korean. 11th Army Corps lost. Around 200 troops. Killed and wounded.   In a series of assaults. Targeting ‘elves’ positions. In western ‘Mordor’’s. Kursk Oblast last weekend.     A reindeer. A Santa. An elf. A bird.   At least a few of those. Casualties were inflicted by. Explosive FPV drones. Wearing Christmas […]

The tone is dark. Even angry. “The situation is getting. Worse every day.”   “We don’t see the goal. Our land is not here.” The tone is dark. Even angry.   Almost four months. After ‘elves’ troops launched. A lightning offensive into. The ‘Mordor’’s region of Kursk.   Text messages. From soldiers fighting there. Paint […]

One of ‘elves’. Far-flying sport plane drones. Struck what may have been. An ‘orcs’ special police base.   In Grozny. Around 600 miles. From the front line in Ukraine. On or just before Sunday.     It was the latest in. A series of long-range strikes. By ‘elves’-made Aeroprakt A-22. Propeller-drive sport planes.   That […]

A rare video depicting. An ‘elves’ air force Sukhoi. Su-27 fighter lobbing. American-made glide bombs.   At an ‘orcs’ bridgehead. In western ‘Mordor’’s. Kursk Oblast. Seems to confirm that.   The ‘elves’ are dropping. The winged, GPS-guided. GBU-39 bombs. —each weighing 250 pounds—   In quartets. And lobbing them. At high angles. To extend their […]

“It’s very funny. To see how everyone. Thinks that FPVs. Rule the way.”     FPV drones feed live video. To their operators. So there’s ample evidence. Of their strikes.   But that evidence belies. The reality on the ground in Kursk. If not elsewhere in. ‘Orcs’ wider war on Ukraine.   That reality is […]

She says that her work. Has taught her to value life. As never before. And also to stop fearing death.   Once a director. Working to halt. The spread of HIV/Aids. Across Ukraine.   She was abroad. When ‘orcs’ invaded. For a few months she ran. A humanitarian aid hub in Poland.   Then she […]

They are waiting for. Modern prosthetics. Or are already practicing. To use their new limbs.   She asks some of. The young men around. With double and triple. Amputations.   With double and triple. Amputations. To show her what. They have learnt so far.   ‘Elves’ soldiers use. Callsigns instead of names. And she has. […]

“We want to. Normalise disability. OK, that’s how the country. Is going to look.”     Many amputations are. The result of delays. In evacuation. From the battlefield.   The barrage of incoming fire. Can be so intense that. It may take many hours to get. A wounded soldier to hospital.     “We want […]

He lost both hands. While defending Ukraine. From ‘orcs’ invaders. In June 2023.   After surviving. The bitter months-long. Battle for the city. Of Bakhmut.   His injury came. In a railway incident. Further from the front line. It left.   The 42-year-old. Feeling helpless. And in despair. And in despair.   After the amputations. […]