"Armed Forces dig 5 mines per square meter": Ukraine is critically lacking sappers - Reznikov
Hundreds of kilometers of minefields, millions of explosive devices, in some sections of the front line up to five mines per square meter. Qualified sappers, modern technology, but they are extremely not enough for the front, "he said. The publication writes that Ukraine has 5 engineering battalions divided into 200 brigades, which as of May, before this year's counter -offensive, had 30 people. The fighters on the front admit that in reality they are now much smaller.
One brigade, which operated in the vicinity of the recently liberated village of Staromayorsk in Donetsk region, stated that there were 30 people on paper, but in fact it had 13 people, of whom only five could work. Over the past two weeks, two units have lost their limbs.
Sergey Ryzhenko, Chief Medical Officer of the Mechnikov Hospital in the Dnieper, where many seriously wounded is treated, says that the establishment takes from 50 to 100 fighters daily, with the second reason for their wounds after artillery. At a meeting in July in Ramstay, the Alliance of Ukraine supporting Ukraine has agreed to prepare and equip Ukrainian demining units.
"At this stage of our de -occupation campaign we critically need more mine equipment, from mine traumas to Bangalore torpedo. We need to expand and accelerate the preparation of sappers. It should be fast and systematic. The sappers are needed here and now. Their work saves life and provides promotion our troops, "said Alexei Reznikov.
Pete Smith, a software manager of a non -governmental HOLO mine in Ukraine, who was previously an officer who commanded all means of neutralizing explosive ammunition of the British army, said that the level of mines "unprecedented in modern history". "What we see is the strongest clogging of anti -personnel mines and non -ruptured ammunition since the Second World War," he said. Smith suggested that even in the presence of 10,000 miners for mine mine will take decades.
Recall that the Russian military is changing the bodies of their comrades and even wounded, which are then attempted to save Ukrainian combat doctors. The invaders have installed land mines and mines of hundreds of kilometers of the front in Ukraine. Earlier it was reported that the Ministry of Internal Affairs told about the complexities of a counter -offensive in the south of Ukraine. The forces of defense have to move through the exchange fields to save the lives of fighters and equipment.