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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/

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Photo: A soldier takes cover as he removes an antitank mine. (Ed Ram for The Washington Post)
Text from article: “We need special equipment, we need special remote mine-clearance equipment,” Zaluzhny said, adding that Ukraine is using U.S.-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.” In an address late Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged the difficulty of advancing. “We must all understand very clearly — as clearly as possible — that the Russian forces on our southern and eastern lands are investing everything they can to stop our warriors, he said. “And every thousand meters of advance, every success of each of our combat brigades deserves gratitude.” A senior Ukrainian official, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters, said Kyiv received less than 15 percent of the quantity of demining and engineering materiel, including MICLICs, that it asked for from Western partners ahead of the counteroffensive. Some of that equipment arrived just last week, the official said.
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"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/

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News headline and photo with caption. Headline: The biggest obstacle to Ukraine’s counteroffensive? Minefields. Areas in front of Russian defensive strongholds in the south and east have been densely mined By Isabelle Khurshudyan and Kamila Hrabchuk July 15, 2023 at 3:39 p.m. EDT Photo with caption: During a training exercise last week in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, soldiers prepare to clear an antitank mine by using rope to remove the detonator. (Ed Ram for The Washington Post)
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Screen shot of a Mastodon post with the text: "Ukrainians are trying for now to save the few they do have by doing the job manually. Sapper units — sometimes a group of just four people — will often wait for twilight to clear paths, as they are too visible in the daylight and can be seen through night-vision devices in the dark. Walking with a metal detector is unrealistic, sappers said, because they are too visible. So they crawl, relying on their vision to spot mines." https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/15/ukraine-war-russia-mines-counteroffensive/ #Ukraine #Russia #War #News
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