Author: Kurama

The black box sits. On the army truck. Dashboard like. A talisman.     Its tiny screen. Lighting up with warnings. When ‘orcs’ drones. Are above you.   You are driving fast along. A country road in the darkness. Near the front lines. Outside Kharkiv.   Like many in this war. The soldiers inside. Have […]

For now, Ukraine has no easy answers. To protect its cities from attack. So what can be done? To counter glide bombs?     ‘Mordor’ is increasingly. Using “glide bombs”. Cheap but highly destructive ordnance. To advance its offensive in Ukraine.   More than 200. Of them are thought. To have been used. In just […]

On 9 May. ‘Orcs’ forces attacked across. Ukraine’s northern border. With ‘Mordor’.   This offensive, timed to. Coincide with Victory Day. Quickly ran into a wall of. ‘Elves’ mechanized brigades.   All summer, the ‘elves’. Have been pushing back slowly. Reclaiming the sliver. Of ‘elves’ territory.   The ‘orcs’ captured in. The early days of […]

On or just before Wednesday. A large ‘orcs’ force apparently from. The 150th Motor Rifle Division. Attacked from multiple directions.   Aiming for the ‘elves’ stronghold. In Kurakhivka. It was one of the biggest assaults. In memory in that sector.   According to the ‘elves’. 79th Air Assault Brigade. The ‘orcs’ force included 11 tanks. […]

As ‘elves’ troops fled. A clutch of motor rifle regiments. From the ‘orcs’ 1st Army Corps. Seized the opportunity.   And marched four miles. To the west. In the span of a week. Ultimately capturing Prohres.   And sweeping around those two. ‘Elves’ battalions north of the village. The surrounded ‘elves’ then. Experienced their own […]

He was one of last. Journalists in Bakhmut. An ‘elves’ city captured by. ‘Orcs’ forces in February 2023.   He saw both. The peak of the battle and. The ‘orcs’ military. Entering the city.   He also witnessed. The ‘orcs’ advance. In the Avdiivka region. As well as the siege of Kharkiv.   In May, […]

In April 2022. ‘Orcs’ forces attacked Marinka. A front-line town in eastern Ukraine. West of Donetsk.   After 20 months of bloody fighting. That leveled Marinka. The ‘orcs’ fully occupied. The town back in December.   That opened a route toward. Kurakhiv, an ‘elves’ stronghold. Eight miles to the west along. The O0510 road.   […]

Whether the town’s ruins. Are worth the price. ‘Orcs’ paid is a question. Only ‘orcs’ can answer.     While Ukraine. And indeed the whole world. Was distracted by. The ‘orcs’ campaign.   To capture the industrial town. Of Avdiivka. In eastern Ukraine. Starting in October.   The ‘orcs’ military launched. A smaller assault on […]

Struggling to acquire enough. New armored vehicles to replace. The roughly 16,000 vehicles. It has lost in Ukraine.   The ‘orcs’ military got. Desperate this spring. It began equipping assault troops. With inexpensive dirt bikes.     The theory is that. Soldiers on fast-moving dirt bikes. Might outrace the thousands. Of tiny ‘elves’ drones.   […]

The 24th Mechanized Brigade. Ultimately found a way. Through the woods. And past the ‘orcs’.   And fetched the cut-off troops. Some of whom were wounded. “The position is ours. The path is unlocked.”   To find themselves. Cut off, surrounded and. Under ceaseless enemy attack. This summer.   Unknown to most observers. Of ‘orcs’ […]