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"“We need special equipment, we need special remote mine-clearance equipment,” Zaluzhny said, adding that Ukraine is using US-provided M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge (MICLIC) systems but that “they are also being destroyed, yes. There’s nothing wrong with that. It takes a lot of them.”
...Kyiv received less than 15% of the quantity of demining and engineering materiel... that it asked for from Western partners ahead of the counteroffensive."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/15/ukraine-war-russia-mines-counteroffensive/
#Ukraine #Counteroffensive
...Kyiv received less than 15% of the quantity of demining and engineering materiel... that it asked for from Western partners ahead of the counteroffensive."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/15/ukraine-war-russia-mines-counteroffensive/
#Ukraine #Counteroffensive
"In a painstakingly slow process that has come to define the speed of the Ukrainian #counteroffensive, small groups of sappers on the front lines are crawling across minefields — sometimes literally on their stomachs — to detonate Russia’s defenses and clear a path for troops to advance.
...Areas between 3 - 10 miles deep... have been densely mined with antitank and antipersonnel #mines and trip wires."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/15/ukraine-war-russia-mines-counteroffensive/
#Ukraine #Russia #War #RussiaUkraineWar
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...Areas between 3 - 10 miles deep... have been densely mined with antitank and antipersonnel #mines and trip wires."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/15/ukraine-war-russia-mines-counteroffensive/
#Ukraine #Russia #War #RussiaUkraineWar
#News #WorldNews