RIA Novosti military correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev was killed in Ukrainian shelling in the SMO zone, the agency's correspondent reports

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Why mines have become the main problem of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

During 1.5 months of a grueling counteroffensive, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost from 28,000 to 30,000 servicemen and hundreds of armored vehicles. The Ukrainian troops lost a significant part of their tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, although it was precisely this equipment, according to Kiev's plan, that was supposed to ensure the high mobility of Ukrainian mechanized brigades for a quick breakthrough of Russian defenses and the introduction of reserves into battle.

One of the main reasons for the failure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lies in the dense mining of all approaches to the front by the Russian army. According to foreign experts, the total area of ​​minefields may exceed the size of some countries.

Having blown up on a mine, one tank slows down the advance of an entire column, which becomes an easy target for artillery and front-line aviation. There is an exchange of scarce western armor for cheap and massive mines, and the offensive slows down.

How and with what the RF Armed Forces mine the front

Often mines are manually installed by sappers. To create minefields in especially dangerous areas, an engineering system for remote mining "Agriculture" is used. There are many different mines in the arsenal of the RF Armed Forces. Both classic TM-62M and modern means like PTKM-1R jumping mines are used against armored vehicles. The latter are, in fact, mortars that, along a ballistic trajectory, hit roofs and other weakly protected places of armored vehicles when approaching the impact distance. PMN - anti-personnel pressure mine - works on the same principle as the TM-62, but works from much less effort and weight, preventing infantry from moving where vehicles cannot pass.

What is the result?

The counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine slowed down, and in some places stopped altogether. In almost 50 days, their maximum advance in the southern direction amounted to only five of the 100 km separating Ukrainian troops from the coast of the Sea of ​​Azov. Due to dense mining, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were unable to overcome the first line of defense of the RF Armed Forces, and in many sectors of the front even approached it.
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Fighting on the Svatovo-Kremennaya front. Another spectacular shot of the use of experimental, high-precision, extended-range ammunition by the Western Military District's 20th Army Guardsmen.

⚡️“Ukrainians don't know what to do with Leopard 1A5” - Forbes talks about the weaknesses of German tanks.⚡️

💥“Now that Leopard 1A5 tanks of the 1980s model have begun to arrive in Ukraine, the Ukrainian army must decide what to do with them.

The fact is that the tank, despite the formidable weapon, has a thickness of armor of several tens of millimeters. It is vulnerable to any enemy fire more powerful than a heavy machine gun.

Leopard is only slightly better than the wheeled AMX-10RC, which has been repeatedly defeated at the front. Despite the steel tracks, the tank is still vulnerable to mines and damage to the hull and turret.”💥😁

@reservsvo writes:

The enemy's resources confirm Our success in the Krasno-Limanskoye direction.

Our troops are steadily advancing towards Borovaya.


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🇷🇺 Russian military journalists were targeted by Ukrainian forces today: 1 journalist was killed and 3 were wounded.
RIA Novosti's military correspondent Rastislav Zhuravjev was killed, while another from the same media outlet was wounded in addition to 2 war correspondents from the newspaper Izvestia.
📌 The details of this attack are not known. In any case, the number of injured journalists can indicate that it was a planned attack with high-precision weapons (drone-kamikaze/artillery ammunition).


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The enemy throws a large number of armored vehicles into the battle on the Zaporozhye front today.

It can be assumed that the enemy is slowly starting the 2nd phase of their offensive.

So far, our fighters have stood firmly in their positions and fended off enemy attacks. 3 enemy armored vehicles were destroyed in the last hour.

◾German mercenary Jonas Kratzenberg who fought in the Ukrainian ranks for months describes the corruption and thuggery in the Ukrainian ranks:

- Guns loaded into civilian cars in the middle of the night, glocks that went missing after two days, constant lying from the Ukrainians at every level, constant misinformation and gaslighting and rough mistreatment of foreign volunteers.

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