Author: Kurama

The proliferation of. Tiny explosive drones. All along the 800-mile. Front line of ‘orcs’ wider war.   On Ukraine. Ushered in what. One think tank called. “The era of the cautious tank.”   But in Kurakhove. A front-line town in. Eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast. ‘Elves’ tanks are anything but cautious.     The ‘elves’ have. […]

A ruthless double-tap. Barrage by ‘elves’ rockets. May have killed. Or wounded.   Dozens of ‘orcs’ troops. In southern ‘elves’. Zaporizhzhia Oblast. On or just before Saturday.   Worse is coming. The administration of. U.S. has finally. Given Ukraine.   Permission to use its best. U.S.-made munitions. Against targets. Inside ‘Mordor’.     An ‘elves’ […]

To surround. The eastern fortress city. Of Pokrovsk. From the south.   ‘Orcs’ forces first. Have to roll back. ‘Elves’ defenses. In Kurakhove.   A village on the bank. Of the Vovcha River. 18 miles south. Of Pokrovsk.     The ‘elves’ army’s 33rd. Mechanized Brigade and its. German-made Leopard 2A4 tanks. Stand in their […]

Every night. ‘Elves’ go to sleep. To notifications. Pinging on their phones.   As inbound drones. Crisscross the country. Setting sirens blaring. Every night.   And every morning. They wake to news of. Yet another strike. Every morning.   Just since the start. Of November. Drones have hit Kyiv, Kharkiv. Odesa, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia.   […]

She had come home. Early the night. An ‘orcs’ drone hit. Her bedroom.     “It flew in. Through the window. Right into her room.” Her mother says.   After the explosion. Her parents ran. From the next room to find. Their daughter’s room on fire.   “We tried to put it out. But everything […]

As she was alerted. To the invasion. Her first thoughts were. For her six adopted children.   Who were visiting. The seaside. 100km away. From home.     They were in. A municipal holiday home. Near the sea. Where they had been sent.   For fresh air. And general wellbeing. It quickly became. Too dangerous […]

“I saw a robot today.” My five-year-old daughter. Whispered to me as I filmed. Her underneath the table.   “It was flying. … it wanted to kill me.” It wasn’t clear what. – if anything –   My daughter had seen that day. To evoke the disturbing image. But evidently. She was unsettled.   My […]

An ‘orcs’ court. Has sentenced. Two ‘orcs’ soldiers. To life in prison.   For killing. a family of nine. In occupied Ukraine. In a rare example.   Of the country. Holding its troops. To account for. Alleged war crimes.   The family had been. Celebrating a birthday. At the time. Celebrating a birthday.     […]

For weeks. The ‘elves’ 46th. Air Mobile Brigade. Has been bracing.   For a powerful ‘orcs’ attack. On its positions in Kurakhove. In the southern part of. Eastern ‘elves’ Donetsk Oblast.     On Tuesday. That attack finally came. On Tuesday. That attack finally came.   —in the form of at least. 14 ‘orcs’ armored […]

A direct attack. A direct attack. On an entrenched enemy. Is dangerous.   A direct attack. A direct attack. Without any artillery support. Is practically suicidal.     As ‘orcs’ troops. Learned on Saturday. One ‘orc’ blogger. Moaned in a missive.   “Why do these fools? In uniform still? Get to decide? Who lives and […]