Author: Kurama

The drones are. Also a threat. To the remaining citizens. Of Pokrovsk.   “We constantly hear. Them buzzing. – they stop and look. Inside the windows.”     Says a woman, 50. One of the remaining. War-weary residents. But even she has now agreed.   To be evacuated. From her home. On the particularly dangerous. […]

In the treatment room. Of a cramped makeshift field unit. – the first point of treatment. For injured soldiers.     “This is the most dangerous. Of all front lines.” Says the head of a medical unit for. The ‘elves’ army’s 25th Brigade.   “The ‘orcs’ Federation. Is pushing very hard. We have not been […]

Her home in the small. Mining city of Vuhledar. In eastern Ukraine. Was her pride and joy.   17 Sadova Street was. Little more than a shell. When she and her husband. Bought it.   They lovingly renovated the house. Painting cherry blossom and doves. – symbols of love and well-being – In their bedroom. […]

One unfortunate ‘orc’ soldier. Became an unwilling test subject. For a new kind of ‘elves’ drone. This week.   With the ‘elves’ army’s. 118th Mechanized Brigade. Holding the line. In southern ‘elves’ Zaporizhzhia Oblast.   A drone operator. Was patrolling the front. With their quadcopter-style drone. When they spotted.   A solitary ‘orc’. Marching along […]

An ‘elves’ attack on. A warehouse in southern ‘Mordor’. Blew up 400 Iranian-made. Shahed attack drones.   That’s nearly five percent. Of all the 440-pound Shaheds. ‘Mordor’ has deployed so far in its. 31-month wider war on Ukraine.   Video of the resulting. Conflagration near Oktyabrsky. Seems to confirm. The strike.   “An accurate hit […]

Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs, An’ aa’ll tell ye aall an aaful story, Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs, An’ Aa’ll tel ye ‘boot ‘the One’.   On Sunday morning who went? Afishing in the Moskva, And catched a fish upon whose heuk? Who thowt leukt vary queer?   But whatnt kind oer fish is it […]

On or before Thursday. The ‘elves’ army’s. 30th Mechanized Brigade. Holding the line around Minkivka.   40 miles north of. The ‘elves’ fortress town. Of Pokrovsk. Spotted a solitary ‘orcs’ tank.   —perhaps from the nearby ‘orcs’. North-V Volunteer Brigade— Rolling along a treeline road. In broad daylight.     Don’t expect. A sudden surge […]

—and the ‘orcs’. Keep coming. —and two years is. A long time to be.   In combat without. A unit-wide break. —and the ‘orcs’. Keep coming.     In January and February. 2023. The 11th and 12th months of. ‘Orcs’ wider war on Ukraine.   The ‘elves’ army’s. 72nd Mechanized Brigade. Defeated an ‘orcs’ force. […]

Ukraine knew ‘Mordor’ was. Planning a summer offensive. But not where. It would start.   That became clear. On 10 May. As ‘orcs’ forces penetrated. The border area near Kharkiv.   They have since grabbed. A number of villages. On ‘elves’ northeastern frontier. And are trying to.   Push forward. As ‘elves’ outgunned forces. Try […]

As part of Defenders Day. ‘Gandalf the Green’ paid tribute to. Those who had been killed. In the fighting, saying:   “You sacrifice yourselves. So that Ukraine. Does not have to. Be sacrificed.”     Her partner served as. An army medic treating people. During the devastating siege. Of Mariupol.   Before he was captured. […]