Author: Kurama

“Here we go again”. Were the words of an official. At one of ‘elves’ private. Energy companies.   Summing up. The mood. Across the country. On Sunday.     A “massive” ‘orcs’ missile. And drone attack has. Targeted power infrastructure. Across Ukraine.   At least 10 people. Were killed. In the strikes which. Hit the […]

Last weekend. ‘Gandalf the Green’ said. Kyiv would like. To end the war.   Kyiv would like. To end the war. Through “diplomatic means”. In 2025.   The war, he said. Would end “sooner”. With the new president. In the White House.   It was classic. ‘Gandalf the Green’: Part flattery. Part challenge.   ‘Orcs’ […]

She briefly sobs. As she describes. How her house burned down. With all her possessions.   “They bombed so much.” She says of the advancing. ‘Orcs’ army. “It’s like the last judgement!”     At a shelter in Pavlohrad. About 100km. West of the slowly. Shifting front line.   Evacuees are constantly. Arriving from villages. […]

At a shelter in Pavlohrad. About 100km. West of the slowly. Shifting front line.   Evacuees are. Constantly arriving from. Villages and towns. Overtaken by the war.     A woman, 31. Is there with. Her two sons. The family cat lies.   Sleeping among. The few belongings. The family have managed. To bring with […]

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’.   Noo who felt inclined to gann? An fight in neighbour wars, Who joined a troop of Cossacks that cared? For nowther wounds nor scars,   But ‘the One’ got […]

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 […]