Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that during the counteroffensive, the Ukrainian military sometimes encounters 5 Russian mines per square meter of territory.
Source: Reznikov in the comments The Guardian
Direct speech: “Today Ukraine is the most mined country in the world. Hundreds of kilometers of minefields, millions of explosive devices, in some sectors of the front up to five mines per square meter.
Russian minefields are a serious obstacle for our troops, but not insurmountable. We have qualified sappers and modern equipment, but this is extremely insufficient for a front that stretches for hundreds of kilometers in the east and south of Ukraine.”
Details: Huge minefields can be overcome, the minister said, but it is critical that allies “expand and accelerate” the training that some countries, including the UK, are already undertaking.
The publication notes that the number of sappers in the Ukrainian armed forces was insufficient to break through the complex Russian defenses on a huge 600-mile (1,000 km) front, where sapper units were a target for dense fire.
Chief Physician of the Hospital Mechnikov in Dnipro, where many of the most seriously wounded are being treated, Sergei Ryzhenko said he sees between 50 and 100 troops a day, with mines being the second most common cause of injury after artillery.
2023-08-13 16:51:10
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