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Kryvyi Rih

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Civilians lie, annoyingly dead,

Innocent prey of the enemy’s sport,

While wannabe gods in Washington cry:

‘You losers! We told you. It's all your fault.’

Others in Ukraine, spared till now, await

A shabby, hardly necessary fate,

And wriggle in the web where they are caught.

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UkraineBetrayalTragedy

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Graham Sherwood

Sun 9th Mar 2025 10:39

The being caught in a dangerous web analogy is sadly incredibly accurate. Two very dangerous spiders fighting over the spoils it seems.

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Stephen Gospage

Sun 9th Mar 2025 09:09

My thanks to all of you who liked this poem. Every day innocent Ukrainians are being murdered, and the US President says ''anybody would have done the same'.

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