Russia Is Stuck In Its Ways Poem by Gert Strydom

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As if caught in a groove Russia is stuck:
it replaces weapons at the same place
and troops are scared to get munitions by truck
and it's as if mind boggled Russians are stuck
while HIMARS strikes do the stores erase.

That artillery is gone when Russia do it trace
and terrified soldiers are in great amuck,
do believe to win Russia has no kind of luck,
are in fear modern Ukrainian firepower to face.

Like in Skadovsk in Kherson being hit thrice,
where always the Russians use the railway,
do offload munitions next to the rail-line.
In Kherson missiles from the M270 device,
are blowing some more munitions away,
even the pontoon bridges the Russians assign,
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are being blown to bits and those that cross
are destroyed right there and also the ferry.
Against heavy artillery Russia is at a loss
and do no other way into Kherson see

and moving from Crimea on a one track rail,
with a siding halfway, at Brylivka trains wait.
Being hit there, no transport Russia does avail,
while the intensity of the war do not abate.

Without ammunition and stores the Russians fail,
and bloodless resolutions come into play,
against demoralised troops Ukraine prevail,
where surrendering Russian troops are led away;

short of troops and ammunition Putin holds on,
with a cease-fire wants the world to con.
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and maybe Gerhard Shröder will fall for this,
are with a very evil kind of man at ease,
do preparations for another war miss;
without defeat with Putin there is no peace

and so many Ukrainians have offered lives,
while others are now beginning to really win
and without husbands are too many wives.
In every way Russia did against humanity sin

while Medvedev wants Georgia and its ground,
want the Soviet Union again to rebuilt,
do very the same as Vladimir Putin sound,
and there more graves will probably be filled,

while empire and power are the main things:
the doom that Russia over all others brings.

At Bakhmut Russian artillery fire rage
while no troops does any assault mount
as if it's the only way war to wage
while they are not able it to surround.
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At Melitopol partisans blow up another train,
an attack is made upon the local air-field
in that region loyal to Ukraine they remain
and they do not to the Russian demands yield.

Russia did from Slovyansk soldiers move
to Avdiivka where they cannot encircle it,
with full frontal assault they try to improve,
while like cannon-fodder soldiers are hit.

In near suicidal ways they do attack
with huge numbers in the Soviet way
but at their great cost are driven back
do ultimately with men and equipment pay

where since 2015 this battle has raged on,
minute by minute still more Russians are gone.
© Gert Strydom