Archive List for AS A POET

This broken city is just beginning. To tell its stories. And reveal how many victims. ‘Orcs’ left behind.     Izyum is now a city. With deep scars. In every direction there are. Scorched and battered buildings.   The streets are largely lifeless. It’s as if residents. Who survived the shelling and occupation. Are still […]

This broken city is just beginning. To tell its stories. And reveal how many victims. ‘Orcs’ left behind.     In the pine forest. On the edge of the city. Forensic teams are continuing to exhume. Human remains from more than 440 graves.   The authorities say the dead are mostly civilians. But one grave […]

This broken city is just beginning. To tell its stories. And reveal how many victims. ‘Orcs’ left behind.     A short distance from the prison. Investigators are at work. Combing through a damaged office building. Used by ‘orcs’ as their command centre.   A sign saying “police” in ‘orcs’ language. Still hangs over the […]

This broken city is just beginning. To tell its stories. And reveal how many victims. ‘Orcs’ left behind.     The occupiers had a menu of abuses. For those held in the dank basement cells. Of a makeshift ‘orcs’ prison in Izyum. There was more than one type of torture.   He experienced most of […]

The exhumation was conducted mostly in silence. As police and prosecutors looked on. One officer put his head in his hands. Another walked away.   Emergency workers wore blue plastic coverings. In a pine forest at the edge of Izyum. The stench of death filled the air. As a mass exhumation got under way.   […]

On Monday ‘Gandalf the Green’ raised the ‘elves’ flag. In the recently-liberated city of Izyum. The closer you get to Izyum. The more evidence there is of ‘orcs’ rapid retreat.   ‘Elves’ soldiers are grouped. By the roadside near the city. Inspecting the spoils of war. With broad smiles.   There are two abandoned ‘orcs’ […]

Dear God, calamity again! … It was so peaceful, so serene. He resolved to stand on the frontline. Though he lived for the stage.   We but began to break the chains. That bind our folk in slavery… He exchanged his costume. For a grenade launcher.   When halt! … Again the people’s blood. Is […]

Residents are being urged to evacuate. Because of a risk of flooding. After missiles hit a major reservoir dam. 22 streets in two districts of Kryvyi Rih are affected.   A water flow of 100 cubic metres per second. Was gushing from breaches. And water levels in the Inhulets river. Were rising dangerously.   ‘Gandalf […]

In the police station, the Lord’s Prayer was scratched. On the wall of one of the cramped cells. Alongside markings to indicate. How many days had passed.   “Not only did he kill our children. But he killed us, their mothers. These days I’m a dead woman. And I want to address. All mothers of […]

‘Mordor’ aims to “deprive people of light and heat”. By causing power cuts across eastern Ukraine. In revenge for an ‘elves’ counter-offensive. ‘Gandalf the Green’ has said.   Blackouts reportedly affected millions of people. In the eastern Kharkiv and Donetsk regions. It comes after Ukraine said it had retaken. Over 3,000 sq km in an […]