by Alex Steelsmith

“… 42 Russian colonels have died on the ground in Ukraine…”
—Newsweek

“Russia Is Counting Killed Soldiers as ‘Missing’ to Hide Losses.”
—Newsweek

Jiggery-pokery,
colonels on battlefronts
simply go missing, says
Putin. Forsooth,

while he prevaricates
propagandistically,
one more goes missing: a
colonel of truth.