Ukraine Situation Report: Russian Invasion Day: 204 Poem by Gert Strydom

1
In Kharkiv Ukraine is setting up lines of defence,
are waiting for their artillery to drive closer in,
to be able to hold on to what they did win,
before going much further with the counter-offence,

decimated and routed Russians is no pretence,
even if the Russian positions are but very thin,
trenches are dug, more preparations begin,
while the impact on the Russians are immense,

backward lines of supply have to catch-up,
fuel, ammo, other supplies and medical care,
even some food for the local population,
are brought where Russians did lives disrupt,
while to strike out further Ukraine prepare,
heart shattering is the experience of the nation.

2
Across the Oskil River in Kharkiv Ukraine did push,
from Kupiansk and Borova they further went,
fleeing Russian does not set up any ambush,
they are running as if their fighting spirit is spent,

the town of Oskil have been taken,
where towards Donetsk the next attacks will go.
From three directions the DPR is shaken
at Lyman as Ukraine does huge damage bestow,

and under this huge pressure Lyman will fall,
as will Donetsk City as the attacks do go on,
from Donetsk away flee the regime Russia did install,
while most of the rebel leaders now are gone,

it's a matter of time before Ukraine regain
all at the DPR where some Wagner do remain.

3
Ukraine will probably move from Borova
further directly east the Russians to disrupt,
with fighting go in the direction of Swatova
as Russia reels from attacks that came abrupt

where the earth is still dry before rainy season,
which will force Ukraine the roads to use,
to further take the offensive to the Russians on,
or to go to wherever the Ukraine does choose.

The northern part of Luhansk is sparsely populated
which lends to be able to still continue fast,
into arias where very long people have waited
in an aria much untouched that is somewhat vast,

as Russian atrocities are wherever they are
and from Ukraine they need the Russians to bar.

4
From Borova Ukraine need to Troiske to move
as from it further south a railway runs
where Ukraine needs the line of supply to remove
and the road that take munitions to Russian guns.

HIMARS can already that road and rail reach
from another place that is closer to it,
to that lines of supply totally to breach,
that does into stopping ammo for the Russians fit,

or Russians hit that are building a defence line,
where the Russians are reinforcing that city,
to be able all supplies to Luhansk to undermine
where Russia wants the Luhansk Oblast its own to be

and rebels from the LPR does strike,
as terrorists acts to Ukraine's dislike.

5
Three hundred and fifty kilometres is between
the Kharkiv and the Kherson fronts lines,
in any way Ukraine Russian defences undermines,
still Russia has not the most severe attacks seen,

so far against deadly HIMARS have lucky been,
as are rebels that with Russian totalitarianism aligns,
of the destruction have only seen the signs,
and to flee most of the Russians are keen.

In Kherson only three small ferries are left,
as still Ukraine do with HIMARS pressure maintain,
to cut thousands of the Russians off,
where Russians are of food and munitions bereft,
Ukraine do carefully little by little gain,
while in Moscow Putin rages and at times does scoff.

6
From the towns of the Kherson Oblast
where HIMARS and artillery has been coming down,
the Russians have fled and the very last
are with three cars left in the Kyselivka town,

where most of the Russians are pressed
and surrounded against the Dnieper river,
are without water, food and munitions distressed,
and from illnesses some have fever and shiver.

These twenty thousand Russians negotiate surrender,
Putin declares that they absolutely may not,
while constantly Ukrainian barrages do them weaker render
and we will see what control Putin still has got,

where whole units of Russians want the war to stop,
as shells, rockets and bombs do on them drop.

7
Right through Kherson the land is quite flat:
it's an agricultural-place with huge drainage ditches
that as trenches is very suitable for combat
and strength of defence to the Russians switches

where to avoid bloodshed of their own
the Ukraine use Special Forces, aviation and artillery,
while the positions of the enemy are known,
explosives come down where they want them to be.

A spirit-breaking of the of Russians have come in to play,
with command and supply totally awry,
and in their positions they do not want to stay,
as death is raining down from the sky

and screaming not to surrender Putin is hopping-mad,
where to be able to survive the Russians are glad.

8
This thing of the Russians from Kharkiv fleeing,
are now also affecting those in Kherson
and even the FSB in Crimea further on,
while to fight to the very last man Putin is decreeing,

to defend in any way the Russian will is decreasing,
where from Crimea with families the Russians are gone,
all the defences they want to the abandon,
are praying that the artillery will be ceasing,

where all over Ukraine collaborators and officials
do in the greatest haste back to Russia return,
leave letters of resign with signatures and initials,
as the partisans do their cars bomb and burn,
in Kharkiv at the Oskil River no defences are made,
while through it Russians swim and wade.

9
Away helter to shelter the Russians do run,
try to get to Russia, Luhansk or the Donetsk Oblast
while over a distance Ukraine do they outgun,
are praying that the defences there last.

Where now the entire Kharkiv Oblast is liberated,
the signs of Russian occupation are severe
and for their actions the Russians are hated,
where that they did steal, rape and kill is clear.

From the DPR Wagner mercenaries attack;
to either Zaphorizhzia or Mariupol Ukraine will go,
while some of its forces are driving Wagner back,
of regaining Severedonetsk every Russian will know,

to stop them twenty thousand soldiers Putin have not
and again recapturing Mariupol will matter a lot.

10
To destroy a hydro-electric dam and flood a entire city,
Putin does react by hitting a hydroelectric plant,
from Russia do from Ukraine a cease-fire demand
as he stops to the civilians the electricity,

like a terrorist state Russia fires from the Caspian Sea,
flood-water over civilians and their homes to decant,
while like a lunatic Putin do over losses rant,
sets the Russians as enemies to eternity,

while in Kherson at Brylivka the war is raging,
where Ukraine is adamant to take that place,
as HIMARS and artillery shell night and day,
past Kyselivka to Chornobaivka they are waging,
do the last of the strong defences face,
as shell-shock among Russians come to play.

11
Putin is apt as canon-fodder to destroy more men,
until of the Russians there is nothing left,
as for this war he mobilizes many more again
and it seems Russians are of all humanity bereft,

from most the world Russia is shut down,
where industries do slowly grind to a halt,
are effected by sanctions in each city and town,
as Putin do in his wisdom and power exalt

and separate into oblivion each Russian goes,
to live only at Putin's will and whim,
while the world about a much better life knows
and some admire and others hate him,

darker and difficult Russia does the world make,
as he forces countrymen in his crimes to partake.

12
By Chancellor Olaf Scholz Putin was told
to withdraw and the 2001 borders to restore,
it seems Emmanuel Macron was just as bold
and decimation will come if Putin this ignore,

where the Russian army is running away.
If they want to keep Putin they will have to choose,
as from now Russia will not the same stay
where this terrible war they are going to loose.

At the end after it, small countries it will be,
that does against each other go for more war,
where every place will be split up by nationality
and nothing will be as it had been before

if they choose for Putin in power to remain,
or a democratic country they can regain.

13
General SVR on Telegram says: Putin is shown
report after another report that is stating,
with a mobilization Russia will into rebellion be thrown,
where the opposition to this war are not abating.

He is going to risk open revolt with mobilization,
Kursk, Voronezh, Belgorod and Bryansk will revolt,
are against being called-up as the Russian nation,
where this is hitting Putin like a tremendous jolt,

Russia is scared of a resistance that they did arm,
if they loose the devastating Ukrainian war,
that their own will the government harm,
as the opposition to the war becomes more.

Ethnic Russians do not want to become canon-fodder,
the losses do the Russians extremely bother.

[Poet's note: The attack on the dam at Kryvyi Rih City by missiles from Russian strategic bombers did flood it with a two meter high tidal wave and did also go on with the Inhulets River that runs through Ukraine and Putin strikes back at civilians like a terrorist or lunatic that is insane, where from severe water damage homes were lost. At a time Russians will stagger to pay back this war's costs.]
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