2023-05-29 00:41:54
Russia and its puppet administrations in Ukraine They have been reinforcing their defenses in recent months in the four occupied territoriesincluded by Kyiv among the targets of the expected counteroffensive.
The Russian Army has built kilometers of fences, walls, trenches for troops and ditches to hinder the advance of Ukrainian troops within the framework of an operation for which great expectations have been created and that it can change the course of the war.
Russian forces have made use of so-called “dragon teeth”pyramid-shaped reinforced concrete anti-tank obstacles that have been used to impede the movement of tanks and mechanized infantry since World War II.
This is one of your main tools for prevent the incursion of tanks state-of-the-art that Kyiv already has in its arsenal.
Satellite images reveal that, in addition to dragon teeth, the Russian Army has designed a layered defense system consisting of anti-tank ditches, minefields and iron “hedgehogs”, a network of trenches and barbed wire, along the front line. Also the depths of the occupied territories, including the approaches to Melitopol, in the Zaporizhia region and the Crimean peninsula.
The effectiveness of these defenses will largely depend on the ability of Russian troops to repel the Ukrainian assaultanalysts point out, but progress will surely be slowed down.
The Ministry of Defense that directs Oleksii Reznikov released a video in which a British Challenger 2 tank is seen destroying the “dandelions” in its path.
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