Author: Kurama

It’s hard to say. You’re winning. When your city’s. Being destroyed.   But its people. Like Leontovych’s music. Are displaying. Extraordinary resilience.     The director of. Pokrovsk’s History Museum. Has already salvaged. And transferred.   Most of its prized possessions. To safety. – including artefacts from. Leontovych’s life in Pokrovsk.   ‘Mordor’, she says. […]

For one ‘elves’ military band. Shchedryk has become. A song. To inspire resistance.   They’re even playing. It in the trenches. – using weapons. As improvised instruments.     They may be musicians. But their commander. Reminds you that. They’re soldiers first.   They’re soldiers first. All have spent time. On the front line. On […]

The statue of Pokrovsk’s. Famous composer. Mykola Leontovych. Has already been removed.   The music school. That bore his name. Now lies boarded up. And empty.   Leontovych may not be. Well known in the West. But the tune. He composed is familiar.   But the tune. He composed is familiar. Around the world. – […]

Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine. Is the birthplace of one of. The world’s favourite carols. The Carol of the Bells.   But there are few. Signs of Christmas. In the city. This year.     Most of Pokrovsk’s population. Has already fled. The gas supply’s. Been turned off.   And many homes. Are without. Electricity. And […]

Blazing flames on the edge. Without an alert. The sun keeps going. The sun of Kyiv is going.     *Because my friend sent to me a photo with a comment “the Kyiv’s sunset”. So, I wrote this poem. Thank you, my friend. And this page’s image is a snap shot after the stage played […]

Going up to the roof. Looking up to the sky. Anyone knows nothing. About what is going on.   Looking over the city. Looking forward to see you. One thing is certain. I am here.     *Because my friend in Ukraine just sent to me a photo with a common greeting on New Year’s […]

A powerful barrage of. ‘Elves’ drones pummeled. Millerovo air base. In ‘Mordor’’s Rostov Oblast.   On Monday. ‘Orcs’ gunners opened fire. Lighting up the early morning sky. Explosions rocked the base.   The targets may have included. The few ‘orcs’ air force Sukhoi. Su-25 attack jets. That still stage from the airfield.   For attacks […]

Reportedly taking advantage. Of the temporary confusion. Resulting from a rotation. Of ‘orcs’ troops.   A small ‘elves’ force. Advanced into Kamyanske. A village on the ‘orcs’ side. Of the front line.   In southern ‘elves’. Zaporizhzhia Oblast. The village with. A pre-war population.   Of just 2,000. Surrounded on. The north and west. By […]

The 13th National Guard Brigade. Defends a five-mile stretch. Of the front line around. The town of Hlyboke.     An ‘elves’ national guard brigade. Just orchestrated. An all-robot. Combined-arms operation.   Mixing crawling. And flying drones. For an assault on ‘orcs’ positions. In Kharkiv Oblast.   “We are talking about. Dozens of units of. […]

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 […]