Military Analyst: Russia Created Minefield 'About the Size of Florida' in Ukraine - YouTube
The stories that we're hearing from the frontlines is Ukrainian units come up against these defences where mines in some places are every metre or every two metres
During an interview with a Ukrainian Leopard tank crew by the German news channel "Welt nachtrichtensend," the journalist asked why they didn't just drive around the minefield.
The Ukrainian officer said that during their training in Germany, instructors plotted minefields 100 by 200 meters in size on their maps, "and we have hectares of these minefields, do you understand?"
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Just drive around it bro...These journalists, Lol.
The amount of mines that Russia has placed is absolutely insane and very much slowing things down, coupled with no air superiority and a lack of mine clearing equipment and yet some "western officials" moan about the speed and expect Ukraine to pull off a miracle. It looks like Ukraine is mostly focused on artillery hunting.
In addition, on visualised losses, Ukraine often has a 1:2 advantage in equipment losses, as Russia is the defender against an offense, that is pretty terrible performance as the defender is meant to have the 1:2 advantage at an absolute minimum, so Ukraine is seemingly being careful or the Western equipment is holding up better at survivability.
Slow progress, yes, but still performing well in spite of all the disadvantages but thanks to us dragging our feet and not being prepared for a minefield of this scale, Russia has mined practically every single inch of land so this is going to be slow as hell, why I haven't really posted much, not many major developments happening lately.
I've a feeling that Ukraine has swapped tactics to artillery attrition instead of a large scale offensive after they realised how massive the minefields were, hopefully cause a Russian pullback through attrition, Ukraine currently has a large advantage in counter battery fire, they just need the ammo, it'll be slow though, far slower but far safer.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 06 August 2023
