Ukraine Situation Report: Russian Invasion Day: 186 Poem by Gert Strydom

1
At Pisky the Russians are moving along the veldt
did turn and from the south they did gain,
while positions in a secondary line is held,
that has been strengthened by Ukraine.

At Pisky they could not move through,
did suffer heavily in equipment and troops
where with overwhelming force they do
there attacks do and try to isolate groups.

While from Donetsk Wagner is reinforced,
are supported by air-strikes they call in,
where for years back the Russians were forced,
at the greatest cost they try this aria to win:

the atrocities and cruelty of Wagner is known;
against this the greatest resistance is shown.

2
At Kadiivka in the Luhansk oblast Russia used
a hotel for paratroopers as a military base,
where the locals had been by them abused
and HIMARS strikes did this unit erase.

The hotel acted as a command-centre as well,
more than two hundred Russians were lost,
and local people do about destruction tell,
while the Russians pay with men at a great cost.

It was about fifty six kilometre from the front,
for HIMARS from a safe firing place
while Ukraine does the DNR and LNR confront,
are hitting targets with accuracy that amaze:

from Kramatorsk, further the strikes could be,
men, equipment and ammo they do destroy constantly.

3
The Zaphorizhzia power-plant is still disconnected,
cut from any usage away from the Ukraine,
where from Russians violations are expected,
while by thievery of electricity they try to gain,

where Russian technicians are trying
to connect Crimea and Russia to it,
do not care to use it to have people dying,
and winning with radiation do their goals fit.

One of the six reactors could supply
the other five that have been shuttled down,
while the Russians do their switch-over try,
and without electricity is in Ukraine many a town.

while more in war a person gets Russians to know,
the more their inhumanity does show.

4
At the Antonivsky Bridge in Kherson
Russia is erecting a structure next to it,
where the way to pass tanks and ammo on it is gone
and this do a homemade bridge on ferries fit.

The Antonivsky Bridge they use as a cover,
to protect the structure that they are setting up
but that it might not act ad this they may discover
when missiles do target it very close-up,

while Russia tries to find ways to supply
in Kherson their forces that are trapped,
that can not on their officers that fled rely
to this unusual bridge they have adapted

but still the structure is highly vulnerable,
almost nothing are against modern weapons invulnerable.

l'Envoi
5

Russia have pressed their people into poverty,
where Putin is set on taking Ukraine at any cost,
which they call a 'model of reduced consumption, '
even if for years all prospects for Russians are lost,

even if to other countries access is denied,
while innocent civilians Russians do kill,
all human laws on war Russia has defied,
where it does more and more blood spill.

Evgeny Roizeman, a leader of the opposition,
has in Russia been arrested for opposing war,
where to rule supreme Putin has the ambition
and just as totalitarian Russia is as before,

while Putin remains only a mortal man
and Russians survive in any way they can.

6
Ukraine lacks resources in weapons for counter-attacks,
where without enough weapons the West is aiding,
with war-ships the Black Sea Russia is blockading,
but training and the will to win no Ukrainian lacks.

In Donetsk City at the Russian barracks
a reporter filmed the brave soldiers parading,
with direct precise hits totally obliterating
like with Wagner, the reporter a missile strike attracts.

The entire unit that did the rebels serve
and slowly but surely the Russian war-machine,
the demoralised men of which it does consist,
is destroyed where those that die do not it deserve,
where to take Ukraine at any cost Putin is keen,
as like a terrorist targeting civilians he does persist.
© Gert Strydom