1/1/2024 0 Comments Modern day land mines can be divided into either anti-tank mines or antipersonnel mines.![]() ![]() In some areas these are repeated two or three times to provide three or four layered barriers representing several kilometers of in-depth defense. The diagram below shows, in simplistic terms, the lay-out for one line of defense. The time taken for Ukrainian forces to get themselves ready to go on the offensive gave the Russians the time to develop and prepare its defensive positions which seemed to grow exponentially with every passing day. He argued that the weather, the need to properly train his troops and the fact that Ukraine’s armed forces still lacked enough Western weapons to succeed without suffering too many casualties was holding things up. ![]() Predictions and expectations of when the promised Ukrainian “spring counteroffensive” would start filled the pages of the international media from the start of the year with noticeably increasing irritation as to why, as summer approached, it still hadn’t got off the ground.īy the end of May, President Zelensky had to defend himself against allies who, having shipped billions of dollars’ worth of weapons systems and ammunition to help the war effort, urged him to get on with it. ![]()
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