Situation Report: Ukrainian Invasion Day: 259 Poem by Gert Strydom

The counter offence: in summary:

From Kupiansk to Severisk runs a front line,
in the Kherson, Zaphorizhzia, Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts
that do a theatre of this war define,
as long as kinetic activity in these regions lasts.

Between Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv
are the counter offensives in the north-east,
in offence to Bahkmut the Russians does attention give;
it seems their defeat elsewhere to them matter least;

while in the Kherson Oblast in the south Ukraine
has another strong counter offence going,
where they daily do against retreating Russians gain,
is decimation on Russia's strongest bestowing:

in their hordes left to as canon-fodder die,
Russians surrender en mass, did in vain try.


The counter offensive in detail:
between Kharkiv and Luhansk:

1
The north-east frontline is about 130 Kilometres long,
Ukraine from Kupiansk to Stapova Nova Salivka did attack,
have killed and driven Russian troops back,
did liberate some villages, the N26 road along,

with Blitzkrieg manoeuvres through Russians they drive strong,
do get territory; go around the Russian pushback,
where Russians do training and new weapons lack,
as Ukrainians fight for a land that do to them belong.

To people at home Russians talk about a cauldron
when the Ukrainian forces do surround them,
that Putin do not really know what is going on,
they believe his commands from a lack of knowledge stem.
From Lyman and Barova at Novodyany and Kolivka,
people have been liberated up to Karmanzanivka.

2
Trough Stapova Novo Salivka the Ukraine pushed through,
at Mikolivka did cut downward to other places,
that Russia occupied, suppressed people as Russians do,
where Blitzkrieg the Russians confuse and amazes,

while Ukraine gained control over the highway,
they went right through a Russian defensive grid,
did Russian forces, cut-off, surround and slay,
in all of this, the N26, to retain it the Russians did bid,

as it's a mayor supply line, where to Kropmeny,
Ukraine has overran them with its thunder-run,
it's Blitzkrieg advance that Russians did not in time see,
and in decimation pounded gun upon gun,

where they do now advance further on
and it seems all Russian hope for victory is gone.

3
From Kharkiv two hundred kilometres Ukraine did gain,
and at the low end eighty five kilometres they went,
for every bit a bloody battle they had to maintain,
where with outnumbering force the Russians are not spent.

From Barova at Kolivka further southward,
where Ukraine is towards Svatova heading east,
there are massive Russian losses, to Putin absurd,
as if they did not suspect the attack in the least,

the attacks are well into the Luhansk Oblast,
with Ukrainian Jaeger infantry conducting recon
of arias they did know well in the past,
they do know what among the Russians are going on,

give positions of enemy vehicles to be fired upon,
and before being encountered from the aria are gone.

4
They use drones to scan the Russians from the air,
look for weaker places for armour to burst through,
even if strong positions the Russians did prepare,
and with perfection Ukraine does its Blitzkrieg do,

but before this the artillery do for attack prepare,
upon the exact positions in anticipation wait,
do shoot as soon as they are of enemy positions aware
as a normal job done without any thought of hate,

as they hit tanks, BMP's and BTR's on the spot,
do get instructions to hone finer in,
from the positions that they in perfect time got,
do slowly but surely the war against Russia win,

while hit upon perfect hit do death to the enemy bring,
where with rain in mud, the roads people have to be using.

5
Air-defence and artillery systems in farmlands
are being spotted and by artillery-fire taken out,
while a soldier have the control of a drone in his hands,
and no Russian vehicle has the ability to move about.

From Lyman and Seviersk at Debrova and Zolitrivka
Russians are hold back and the fighting have not abated,
Russians are busy with an incursion at Bilohorivka,
that was the first village in Luhansk being liberated.

Multiple Russian push-backs are only incremental,
constantly at these times Ukraine does more aria gain,
do the flanks attack with units acting coincidently,
and Russians surrounded cannot the fighting maintain,

the overwhelming Russians are mowed down,
as Ukraine captures every village and town.

6
Some of the Russian training seems bogus,
to ex-soldiers, veterans that have been in a war,
as the trainers are each probably rogus;
soldiers do this very little training deplore,

and in a way a person feels sorry that they to death go,
where men are forced Putin's war to fight,
that parents, wives and children will them not know
but Ukrainians try to survive each day and night

and as long as Russians wants others to subjugate,
decide that a nation is not anymore a country,
by actions and brute force they do in still hate,
people will die to be of such a people free,

to not serve under a despot like Putin,
will do their utter best to survive and win.

7
At the city of Bahkmut Ukraine do against Wagner defend,
that is driving from Popasna in the Donetsk Oblast.
In direct attacks many Russian reservists are spent,
to a factory are driven back, in such attacks cannot last.

Wagner, Chechens and Rosvgardia attack south of it,
at Zatetchief and are in control of the road right there,
while north of Bahkmut Ukraine does gain bit by bit,
territorial-troops do stronger defences prepare

and control the northbound highway from the city,
the T1302 highway that connect to roads I spoke about,
by which supplies and munitions help it to stay free,
as they knock overwhelming numbers of Russians out

and when reinforcements and artillery come,
the decimation of Wagner will be gruesome.

8
South of Bahkmut in Pavlivka bloody fights rage,
the Russian 155 brigade has severe losses incurred,
while a commander his live at the Russians did wage
and here I witnessed how brave men have suffered,

are willing to face an outnumbering enemy force,
did ambush invading Russians in a ploy,
are willing to safe others in a war Putin controls and endorse,
did the 155 brigade wipe out and destroy,

where Russian battle tanks are deadly hit
and every soldier to Ukraine matter the most,
where in to Russian ways this does not fit,
as they ignore those hit, that does in decimation roast,

run over their very own to escape the fight,
is of inhumanity and war-crimes the very sight,

9
The biggest supplier of arms to Ukraine,
the Russians, their military forces at war are:
they do supply Ukraine with things left by far,
be it weapons, munitions or information to gain

and this to how Russians conduct to war pertain,
where they do not destroy use of systems to bar,
be it a tank, a anti-aircraft system or armoured car,
some are left that did no damage pertain,

being hit in a fight they do immediately run away,
do not care to help others of the unit to survive,
even if to escape they have to push other vehicles about;
to try to recover, rescue or restore they do not stay,
they do not worry if their own are left dead or alive,
the only thing nattering is a way out.

10
Just a little way on Russia did loose in Makievka
more than 500 soldiers during a single day,
and they rage on Telegram of this and on Pavlevka,
while in this war Ukraine do the Russians slay,

and if out of the tree-line Russian vehicles move,
in their offensive to in any way to attack,
it does to their destruction and decimation proof,
as they do attention of drones or scouts attract,

are by anti-tank squads and artillery severally being hit,
do leave their vehicles and in any way away run,
where this do in the way that they conduct war fit,
as situations do for them out of control spun,

where they use quantity of soldiers against quality,
by force want to suppress and in control to be.

11
Howitzers will in this area wipe Russians out,
will hit Wagner and rebels in the Donetsk Oblast,
that do to attack just where they want to move about,
against HIMARS they will not have a chance to last,

where shelling did in Makievka have an effect
to decimate many of a battalion group,
as shells did hit their target direct,
while fear is in the hearts of every Russian troop,

in encirclement it's like a cauldron very hot,
and if they do not surrender escape the Russians cannot.

l'Envoi
12
At Svatova in numbers Russian conscripts did surrender,
they say: 'this is not our war, and not war at all, "
Putin and their general do them to death render,
they have seen their comrades as canon-fodder fall,

they have been by commanders abandoned,
left to their death to be defeated,
with no supply and munitions them apportioned,
by Ukraine as prisoners of war they are better treated,

while in trenches in water and mud they were left,
with friendly fire that were shelling our own
we were without communication from family bereft,
no times like these we have in life known:

with our own eyes things we have seen,
not told to us, in life and death we live in between.
© Gert Strydom