Ukraine Situation Report: Russia Invasion Day 251 the Russian Fleet Was Under Attack In Crimea Poem by Gert Strydom

Background:

It is now everywhere in the news that Russia loose
its war it terms an operation in the Ukraine,
where daily the Ukraine does its land back gain.
Some oligarchs wanted him from war to abstain:
around Putin's neck is a tightening noose

and now consequences come from what he chooses:
the Old School do not want him in power to remain,
the Eagles want war to all of Europe to pertain,
while like barbarians Russians do people abuse

and with over sixty thousand soldiers dead,
three times more severally wounded in war,
the Russian public knows how this war goes.
With highly untrained men forward he does head,
talk of acts of mass destruction that men do implore,
while still God His will righteously bestow.

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In Sevastopol the Russian were not smoking,
neither was it a goodwill gesture or a tactical retreat,
which are some of the things Russia names in defeat,
at its losses, in lies Russia seems to be joking,

where these words of mine might be Russians provoking,
where far too many people die in the battle's heat
and like mindless maniacs do these things repeat:
as if the propaganda will protection be invoking,

as did the Moscva sank without a man aboard,
where it sank as two missiles went straight through
and in reality hundreds from its crew are dead
while people living far from Russia abroad,
look right through, as any sane man do,
and fleeing Russian men do the call-up dread.


At Sevastopol:

At Sevastopol in Crimea a Russian helicopter attacked
something in the water of the Black Sea:
footage shows a USV-sea-drone heading back,
escaping to be from the Russians free,

which happened after a strike from the USV's on Russian ships,
especially an attack on the Admiral Makarov frigate,
and a minesweeper, as some USV's away slips,
where in this Putin again acts like a bigot.

A Russian helicopter shoots and bombs one of them
and Russia calls Ukraine Satanist,
as Russia cannot the tide of the war stem
and Putin become a protagonist expansionist;

explosive surfaces vehicles do Russian ships hit,
and Putin is antagonised and baffled by it.


The Ukrainian counter-offensives:
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Counter-offences are advancing to Severedonetsk
to Bilhorivka and to Borova and Lysychansk
in the oblasts of Luhansk and Donetsk
from Lyman, Seviersk, Izyum and Kupiansk,

Chorus:
to counter Blitzkrieg thunder-run tactics
the Russians do not a single thing know,
as they do winning to canon-fodder affix,
as too many of them do into decimation go,

the Ukraine is driving Russians back
to run them back into Russia with might,
while they do being outnumbered attack,
do with trained men and better weapons fight,

while with the N26 highway Ukraine moves along
towards Svatova, which is a Russian hub,
where the Russian forces are still strong
which Ukraine wants quickly off to snub.

It's used for supplies and command and control.
In Stopova, Nova Salivka, there is a Russian stronghold,
where Russians push back but not much on the whole,
while in a two pronged attack the Ukraine is bold

with its own kind of Blitzkrieg thunder-run
manoeuvres that more than just chips Russians away,
where they do greater numbers surround and outgun,
do large numbers of Russians capture or slay,

while villages on the way are being liberated,
where in Kharkiv Oblast the drive seemed unlimited
but here also in joy the soldiers are awaited,
which in its scope is somewhat limited,

while the control of the highway has great effect
as from Kupiansk to Svatova soldiers go.
Against Blitzkrieg Russians find it hard to protect,
while the Ukraine do huge damage to them bestow

while in the Luhansk Oblast at Nova Ledatney,
successes at Borova and Kolivka,
have gained people to be again free
along the R66 highway to Tanzanika,

while many Russians have to Svatova retreated
were from Kupiansk in the north are cut away
and further south of Svatova attacks are repeated,
as they try their best the Ukraine to delay,

to Starobilsk or Rubinzein do not flee.
They will come right into another entrapment
and this might be the things I do foresee,
that they will be entrapped I am adamant.

Like in Izyum and Lyman Russians will die
in Svatova or will surrender as Ukraine take it,
as with artillery Ukraine will huge pressure apply
where they are now in surrounding arias being hit.

The Ukrainian thunder-run Blitzkrieg punches through
the positions that the Russians do hold
while confused Russians do not know what to do
and the Russians are surrounded as the battle unfolds.

Further southwards on the same frontline
the R66 highway to Bahkmut runs down,
while there the Ukraine holds and Wagner do undermine,
but in time these forces will get to that town,

to decimate and surround Wagner if they do remain
at Bahkmut, while 'Slava Ukraini' resound,
it will to the whole Ukraine pertain,
while destruction is for Russia all around.

These Wagner mercenaries do Zatetsiev control,
but it goes back and forth between the two sides,
while at Bahkmut brave Ukrainians play their role,
and for politics and money Wagner do abide

to Putin's whim to by any means and force to take,
to rob, to pillage and rape,
do like other Russians normal values forsake,
and their destruction they will not escape

while Russian reservists have been pushed out
of the city of Bakhmut, do as canon fodder die,
while Ukraine does hit them hard and round about,
as Putin still do the Russian people belie

and in Solidar at multiple locations
Russians loose,
are pushed by the severe fighting back
and Putin can state things any way he choose,
but from the truth he is loosing track.

At the T1302 highway Ukrainian troops advance
are set to win, on taking their cities back:
to gain Severedonetsk and Lysychansk
as they do with destruction the Russians attack.

[Poet's notes: USV indicates an unmanned surface vehicle / a sea or water drone. Slava Ukraini means glory to Ukraine and is a cry that the Ukrainian people use.]
© Gert Strydom