Author: Kurama

Advancing north from. The ruins of Vuhledar. The powerful ‘orcs’. 20th Motor Rifle Division.   —with perhaps 10,000 troops— Is hammering at. The 2,000-person ‘elves’. 79th Air Assault Brigade.   Counting on the division’s. Superior numbers. To grind down. The exhausted paratroopers.     The ‘orcs’ goal: To drive the ‘elves’ brigade. From the village […]

More than a fortnight. After falling under. ‘Orcs’ occupation. The residents of Kherson.   Are wrestling with. Acute shortages of medicine. And holding daily protests. Against the ‘orcs’ forces.   They are also worried. That increased shelling. On the outskirts. Might signal.   The start of an ‘elves’ push. To recapture. Their southern city. Which […]

“You feel like you’re. Constantly being hunted. Like someone is always. Looking at you.”   “And can drop explosives. At any moment. It’s the worst thing.” Says a woman, who works.   At an aid centre. Just 1km from. The Dnipro river. In Kherson.   To get to the centre. Without being followed. By drones. […]

Just before noon one day. A hardware trader returned. To his home in Kherson. In southern Ukraine.   He stepped into his yard. Lit a cigarette. And chatted with. His next-door neighbour.   Suddenly, they heard. The sound of a drone. Buzzing overhead. And what happened?     His wife of 32 years. Says she […]

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.   ‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jujub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!’   He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long […]

Shrugging off record-high losses. ‘Orcs’ forces are advancing. Along several critical axes. In eastern Ukraine.   The ‘orcs’ have captured. Selydove, one of. The towns that previously. Buttressed ‘elves’ defenses.   Around the fortress city. Of Pokrovsk. Meanwhile, accelerating ‘orcs’. Gains west of Donetsk city.   25 miles. Southeast of Pokrovsk. Could result in ‘elves’ […]

Officials in Kyiv said. The country’s missile forces. Launched the strike. On the Feodosia terminal.   – the largest oil processing. Facility on the peninsula. – in an attack. Overnight.     ‘Elves’ military says. It has carried out. A strike on. A large oil terminal.   Off the coast of. The occupied Crimean Peninsula. […]

The Proletarsk oil depot. In ‘Mordor’’s Rostov region. Burned for 10 days. After it was hit by an ‘elves’ drone.   Satellite imagery shows. How ‘elves’ drones have. Successfully damaged hangars. At its Marinovka airbase.     Western technology and finance. Are helping Ukraine. Carry out hundreds of. Long-range strikes inside ‘Mordor’.   That is […]

Desperate to shore up. ‘Elves’ defenses around. Pokrovsk, a city with. A pre-war population of 60,000.   And an important logistics hub. 25 miles west of the ruins. Of Avdiivka. In eastern Ukraine.   The ‘elves’ national guard. Has deployed one of its. Handful of offensive brigades. —the Kara-Dag Brigade.     It’s been a […]

The fighting in. Donetsk is. A microcosm. Of the wider war.     Hurling entire battalions. Against ‘elves’ defenses. In eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast. On Sunday and Monday.   ‘Orcs’ forces advanced. A quarter mile through. The ruins of the town. Of Maksymilyanivka.   —and continued their slow. Costly march on the city. Of Kurakhove. […]