Author: Kurama

In a twenty-five storey block. In Kyiv’s Pozniaky neighbourhood. Home to around. 700 people.   Residents have clubbed. Together to install. A larger system. In the basement.   Powerful enough to keep. A single lift operating. And pump hot water. To the upper floors.   For a woman, who lives. On the 19th floor. With […]

With the full-scale invasion’s. Third winter arriving. City streets are. Once again buzzing.   Once again buzzing. And roaring to. The sound of generators. Small and large.   The street lamps. May be off. But shops and restaurants. Are brightly lit.   Diesel fumes. Hang heavy. In the chill winter air. In the chill winter […]

Amid the monstrous. Heaps of. Twisted metal. Pools of congealed oil.   And walls pockmarked. By shrapnel. One incongruous detail. Catches your eye.   Patches of snow. Inside a thermal power station. Patches of snow. Inside a thermal power station.     There’s evidence. Of ‘orcs’. Destructive intent. Everywhere.     With another ‘elves’. Winter […]

‘Mordor’ and Ukraine. Have traded. Air strikes. After a week of.   Intensifying rhetoric. In which ‘orcs’. Tested a new missile. On Ukraine.     ‘Mordor’ has made. Close to 1,500 strikes. On Ukraine. Since Sunday evening.   On about half of. The country’s regions. Causing dozens of injuries. ‘Gandalf the Green’ said.     […]

‘The One’ has threatened. To attack. Decision-making centres. in the ‘elves’ capital.   Of Kyiv. With ‘Mordor’’s. New ballistic missile. Oreshnik.     There were no fatalities. But it left more than. One million people. In Ukraine without power.     ‘The One’ was speaking. Hours after. ‘Orcs’ launched. A “comprehensive” strike.   On ‘elves’ […]

Through the Looking-Glass. And what Alice found there. The chessmen were walking about. Two and two!   Through the Looking-Glass. And what Alice found there. Through the Glass. And what he found there.     A Moscow councillor. Serving time. In jail. For speaking out.   For speaking out. Against ‘orcs’ war. In Ukraine. Has […]

—some coming. In high and fast. Others coming. In low and slow—     In a powerful coordinated. Strike on Friday. The ‘elves’ military. Bombarded ‘orcs’ bases.   In occupied Crimea. With no fewer than. With no fewer than. 40 deep-strike munitions.   “‘Orcs’ channels. Are in panic. As debris is hitting. Targets,” an analyst […]

‘Mordor’ has made. A rare admission. Saying that a key. Air defence system.   Saying that a key. Air defence system. And an air base. In the Kursk region.   Were hit by Ukraine. With US-supplied. Atacms missiles. Atacms missiles.     But Monday’s strike. On an S-400 air-defence. Missile battalion. At Lotarevka.   Northwest […]

Consider what happened. When a long column of. ‘Orcs’ vehicles. Possibly belonging to.   The 3rd Motor Rifle Division. Rolled toward the positions. Of the ‘elves’ 3rd Assault Brigade. Just west of Novovodyane.   Just west of Novovodyane. —on the border of. Donetsk and Kharkiv Oblasts— On 21 November.   And dropped off. Seemingly dozens […]

After a four-month absence. ‘Elves’ World War I-style. Drone-blasting propeller plane. May be back in action over Odesa.   The piston-engine. Yakovlev Yak-52 trainer. A 1970s-vintage. Soviet leftover.   Reportedly returned. To the sky. Over the port city. On the Black Sea.   On Tuesday. To chase down. ‘Orcs’ surveillance drones. The 2,900-pound plane.   […]