Ukraine Situation Report: Bahkmut At A Closer Look Poem by Gert Strydom

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Inside Bahkmut at a much closer glance
there are tank-barriers at each cross-road,
in a decimated landscape where humans abode,
target reference points if Russians into it advance,

from Kherson special forces came to enhance
soldiers armed to the teeth came by the busload,
outnumbering artillery try defences to corrode
while with its full military Russia chance.

MO12ORT mortars fire projectiles that active-reactive
hits Russian reservists at twelve kilometres range,
at the TRPs, artillery is set shells to drop,
at the warning of scouts and drones to act proactive,
rather than to from close fire to exchange,
while heroic soldiers act the human wave to stop.

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Ukrainian Stugna-P missiles are managed remotely
with standoff technology that decimate tanks,
with rockets away on a tripod and notably
its effectiveness is hated through the Russian ranks:

it decimates personnel and is very simple to operate
and day and night Russian shells rain down,
but all Ukrainian units do together cooperate
and their effectiveness is renown,

while without targets Russians do an aria scorch,
they do with untrained reservists, forward storm,
do buildings and homes with barrages torch,
to kill those that flee back conform:

have killed a thousand soldiers running at them,
recently thought the enemy they do stem.

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Scouts observe the enemy putting up a machinegun-nest,
wait until the Russians are ready to fire
and with precise mortars do them address,
insight like this to effectiveness attests:

without weapons or troops being in danger
at the right time these soldiers act and attack,
where in combat intelligence is a game-changer
and from afar already they do the enemy track,

against this as if the only strategy is full frontal assault
or if like in a kid's game, to march on a position,
the Russians act over and over by default,
try to excel in barrages destroying in attrition,

as if no building or residence is to remain,
and as they act decimation to them Ukraine does sustain.

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The pressure, as the enemy does set weapons up,
do really degrade manoeuvres of the enemy,
as they are by technology viewed close-up,
have no clue of positions of the Ukrainians that do see.

The operator of a Stugna-P zooms in,
talks about Ukraine that itself supply,
the whole unit are fired up to win:
do like brothers on each other rely

and like in the Western military
very strong is the buddy / comrade thing,
the obsession to exist and to be free,
where Russians are thrown together without training,

are without cohesion and do not about soldiers care
and abroad more Ukrainian soldiers train and prepare.

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As the Russians try to take the hillocks
around Bahkmut, the trees are without foliage stripped,
Russian soldiers and equipment jot out in the rocks,
while better than others the Wagner are equipped,

from different directions they want to cut-off the town,
trenches and pits they connect as strong-points
but still they send recruits to be mown down,
and without cohesion that military disjoints,

without foliage at a distance they do targets make
and at the first barrage some of the recruits run,
do the trenches point out as they do them forsake,
Russians are mowed down by a own heavy machinegun,

this invites the Ukrainian artillery with accuracy to hit
and with decimation they do against the enemy commit.
© Gert Strydom