Enemy has set up system of engineering barriers up to 40 km deep, - General Staff
The Russian army has installed a deeply echeloned system of engineering barriers, which consists of several obstacle strips with a length of 10 to 40 km each.
Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Brigadier General Oleksiy Hromov, said this in an interview with Ukrinform, Censor.NET reports.
"According to intelligence data, the enemy has set up a deeply echeloned system of engineering barriers in the occupied territories, which consists of several obstacle strips with a length of 10 to 40 km each, and their density is quite high," he noted.
According to Hromov, each line of barriers includes anti-tank minefields, non-explosive barriers in the form of anti-tank ditches, concrete pyramids (known as "dragon's teeth"), anti-tank hedgehogs, and wire obstacles. In addition, Russian troops use mines or groups of mines, setting them to be unremovable, like trap mines. Special engineering techniques are used to overcome such barriers.
"Of course, during the execution of tasks, this equipment is damaged or fails. In this regard, and in order to further increase the capabilities of our troops in overcoming mine and explosive barriers of the enemy, there are agreements with partner countries to continue the supply of the necessary amount of engineering equipment, namely demining installations and charges, tank bridge layers, equipment for making passages in explosive and non-explosive barriers," he concluded.
