MOSCOW, 13 Aug. Ukrainian sappers are frustrated by the number of mines in front of Russian fortified areas, the Guardian writes.
“Mines are everywhere. , Russia has an inexhaustible resource of these weapons, which stopped the offensive of the Kiev security forces.
Advisor to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Yuriy Sak is also convinced that the Russians have a huge stockpile of mines, which will be enough «from Poland to Lisbon» and which will allow them to defend indefinitely.< br>
The counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Yuzhno-Donetsk, Artyomovsk and, first of all, Zaporozhye directions began on June 4. Kyiv threw into battle brigades trained by NATO and armed with Western equipment. As Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on July 21, there are no results for the Ukrainian troops, «at least so far,» and Western curators are «clearly disappointed» with the course of the «counterattack.» Kiev, according to him, is not helped by «neither the colossal resources pumped in, nor the supply of weapons, tanks, artillery, armored vehicles, missiles, nor the dispatch of thousands of mercenaries and advisers.»