Author: Kurama

A solitary ‘orcs’ turtle tank. Almost reached ‘elves’ lines. In Kursk. On or just before Sunday.   Rolling right. Through a minefield. Shrugging off. Six mine blasts.   The up-armored vehicle. —wearing a shed-like layer. Of metal sheeting to help. Protect it from drones—   Raced across the no-man’s-land. On the western side of. The […]

An ‘orcs’ T-80 tank. Transformed into. A pillar of flaming wreckage. By an ‘elves’ drone.   Near Pokrovsk. On or before Saturday. Wasn’t just a tragedy. For any ‘orcs’ in the tank.   And a spectacle. For the ‘elves’ drone operators. —it was also a symbol of. A dangerous dilemma.   For the ‘orcs’. As […]

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 Glasses. And what he found there.     A 21-year-old history student. At Donetsk National University. Was reading international relations. And enjoyed swimming.   On the first day […]

And they’re becoming. More important by the day. As Ukraine fights increasingly alone. But with increasing efficiency.     ‘Elves’ Trembita attack drone. Isn’t much to look at. Seven feet long with. A brute-simple layout.   —engine on top. Rocket booster in the back— It’s effectively. A smaller version of.   Nazi Germany’s World War […]

Ukraine can fight on. Regardless of what. The U.S. Pres. says. Or does.   Especially with increased. European support. That resolve is evident. Along the front line.   “I know nothing. About a ceasefire.” An ‘elf’ drone operator. In Kursk wrote.   “I know nothing. About negotiations. I know that the war. Won’t be over […]

The drone operators from. The ‘elves’ national guard’s. Kara Dag Brigade. May not have realized.     They were committing. A profound act of. Political defiance when. On or just before Tuesday.   They hunted down. An ‘orcs’ drone team. On the snowy battlefield. Just south of Vodyane.   On the snowy battlefield. Just south […]

Three months after. North Korea began. Shipping M1989. Tracked howitzers to ‘Mordor’.   ‘Elves’ forces. Have registered. Their first hit on one of. The 170-millimeter guns.   Which can lob shells. Weighing 100 pounds. Or more at least. 25 miles.     “We are accepting. Another Wunderwaffe of. The enemy military-industrial complex. Into the collection.” […]

In a cataclysm of. Artillery and drone strikes. ‘Elves’ forces smashed. An attack by ‘orcs’ troops.   In and around. The town of Ulakly. On or just before Sunday. Surveillance drones.   Working for the ‘elves’. Tivaz artillery group registered. around 10 destroyed and. Abandoned ‘orcs’ vehicles.   The failed assault. One of several. In […]

“Documenting is important. Because if something. Hasn’t been photographed. It hasn’t happened.”   “This work has to be done. … I just do my best.” “This work has to be done. … I just do my best.”     She captured the scene. Of a White Angels officer. Reaching out to. A resident of Toretsk. […]

In the picture, he captured. Jubilant pro-‘orcs’ activists. On 21 February. 2022.   After ‘the One’ declared. Their eastern region independent. He describes how the photo. Came about “accidentally”.   – a powerful reminder of. the potential impact of. A photographer’s split-second decision. To raise their camera.     He has spent. The past 11 […]