Author: Kurama

A pod of the gun-armed Sea Babies. Motored into the Kerch Bay. Between Crimea and ‘Mordor’. On Thursday night.   And engaged in. A spirited close fight. With the bay’s. ‘Orcs’ defenders.     Videos from the battle. Depict Sea Babies. Opening fire on ‘orcs’. Helicopters and patrol boats.   “Intercepted ‘orcs’ radio. Transmissions indicate […]

‘Elves’ troops attacked. On Sunday. Retaking ground. Retaking ground.   They recently lost. Around the town. Of Velyka Novosilka. In southern Donetsk Oblast.     It was one of several. Small-scale ‘elves’ counterattacks. In recent days. —and fleeting good news.   For ‘elves’ forces. As a yearlong ‘orcs’. Offensive culminates. In Donetsk.   The problem […]

On the shell-pocked battleground. Of eastern Ukraine. ‘Mordor’ has one main goal: To fully occupy.   The coal-rich Donbas region. That means capturing. Luhansk Oblast and. Neighboring Donetsk Oblast.   Together representing around. 10 percent of Ukraine’s area. Luhansk fell early. In the war.   But 34 months. After ‘Mordor’ launched. What was supposed to […]

In one key city. However. It’s the ‘elves’. Who are advancing.   How they’re doing it. Speaks to. The ‘elves’ desperation. As ‘orcs’ wider war.   On their country. On their country. Grinds toward. Its fourth bloody year.   To liberate the ‘orcs’-held. Quarters of Toretsk. An eastern city with. A pre-war population of 35,000. […]

To defeat the twin offensives. In the Donbas and Kursk. The ‘elves’ not only. Have to keep attriting.   ‘Orcs’ forces. —they also have to start attriting. North Korean forces, too. That campaign has just begun.     Four months after. The first North Korean. Anti-tank missile vehicles. Showed up along the front line.   […]

One of the ‘elves’ army’s. Newest brigades. Has arrived. In Ukraine.     After nearly three months. Training in Poland and France. The 155th. Mechanized Brigade.   Is arguably the best. —and certainly. The most heavily-armed— Of the dozen or so new brigades.   The ‘elves’ armed forces. Have formed. In recent months. But that […]

The ‘elves’ ground forces. Have doubled in size. In the 32 months since ‘Mordor’. Widened its war on Ukraine.   Between them, the army. Air assault forces. Marine corps. Territorials and national guard.   Have formed scores. Of new brigades. Each with up to 2,000 troops. And hundreds of vehicles.   At least two. Of […]

The ‘elves’ army. Is standing up. New mechanized brigades. It’s a sign.   It’s a sign. ‘Elves’ leaders don’t expect. ‘Orcs’ wider war on Ukraine. To end anytime soon.     It could be months. Before the first of the new. 2,000-person brigades. Has filled all its billets.   —and months longer. Before the brigades. […]

Dealing with power cuts. Is a national preoccupation. With people checking. Their phones to see.   When the next outage. Is due and pooling. Their resources to buy. Generators and solar panels.     “It’s impossible. To live in. Such dramatic and. Stressful conditions.”   “For three years. Without any. Positive emotions.” “People need this.” […]

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 […]