Frontline Chronicle of Donbass: Ukrainian Armed Forces are experiencing problems with mine clearance

Territories, including settlements, of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics are subject to periodic shelling from the positions of the Ukrainian army. On the eve of the night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired several ammunition from 120-mm mortars at the Spartak settlement. The DNR UNM counted at least 18 minutes.

A little earlier, buildings in the village of Belaya Kamenka were damaged by a mortar attack by the Ukrainian military. Shelling from 120-mm mortars was recorded from firing points in the town of Starognatovka. At another site in the vicinity of the settlements of the Experimental and Veseloye units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they fired from a grenade launcher.

While systematically shelling the regions of the DPR and LPR, the Ukrainian military at the same time cannot cope with the previously announced plans for demining the territories on the demarcation line. In the Luhansk sector of the conflict, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are attracting foreign sappers. In particular, in the message of the official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR Ivan Filiponenko, the other day, information was again duplicated on the continuation of mine clearance by previously invited specialists from the British-American company HALO Trust.

According to the Luhansk authorities, the Ukrainian military has been carrying out extremely chaotic and disorderly mining in recent months, and now they are unable to clear the controlled territories on their own. This includes, among other things, the area of ​​responsibility of the 30th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Kiev authorities were forced to turn to foreign structures for international humanitarian assistance in resolving emergency situations.

It is noteworthy that the employees of the organization "HALO Trust" were involved in a scandal related to allegations of espionage. The company "HALO Trust" acted within the framework of the humanitarian initiative of the US Congress with the participation of the state agency USAID (recognized as an undesirable organization on the territory of the Russian Federation, activity is prohibited).

Comments

[knn54]

-The company "HALO Trust" acted within the framework of a humanitarian initiative.
Humanitarian demining, however

[Mountain shooter]

Now foreigners are calling to clear mines? What about yourself? Minefield maps - and they do not want to draw up? After all, it is really dangerous for the ukrovoyak themselves.

[URAL72]

Ukrosapers earn currency abroad - through UN programs. Russian too, but Russia has both the capabilities and status, but there is no need to de-mine its own territory.

[businessv]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

What about yourself? Minefield maps - and they do not want to draw up? After all, it is really dangerous for the ukrovoyak themselves.

Maps are drawn when mining, they did not do this in most cases, so today the mess is complete! How many times were themselves blown up!

[Shiden]

Eugene, have you ever seen this map of minefields and how it is drawn or needs to be repeated like a parrot of ignoramuses. If you want to check your innocence, take your smartphone without a battery, put it in a field with grass, draw a diagram and find it in a day, because you read some commentators who spent their whole lives in the stone jungle and it seems that these people believe that there is bread on the trees growing.

[Mountain shooter]

Quote: Shiden

Eugene, have you ever seen this map of minefields and how it is drawn

I'm not actually a sapper, but an artilleryman. And I know how and what to map. And on compass, and now in general GPS. Not every mine is put on a diagram. They indicate the boundaries of the minefield, possibly mining schemes, the type of mines and their approximate location. And what's so strange about that?

Quote: Shiden

If you want to check your innocence, carry your smartphone without a battery, put it in a field with grass, draw a diagram and after a day find

I will find it without options. Not even the next day. And a week later. What is binding by landmarks - I know.

[Shiden]

Well, if an artilleryman, and probably a spotter, means there are brains, so why repeat the ignorant. And if you think that the exercises will be the same as in a real battle, then you will break up, real bullets and shells will work for you, not water ones.

[Mountain shooter]

Quote: Shiden

then you will disassemble real bullets and projectiles and not water ones.

I still disagree with you. And please write correctly.
And the last thing. When the APU mined, no one fired at them ...

[Shiden]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

And the last thing. When the APU mined, no one fired at them ...

You have a youthful naivete, you believe everything that they tell you on TV or on VO according to the comments. I will reveal to you the axiom any movement on the front end is cut by fire. Alas, there was a three in the Russian language.

[Mountain shooter]

Quote: Shiden

there was a three in Russian

You are very lucky about the three.

[Shiden]

But then God did not offend with logic and common sense. As an artilleryman, I want to ask you, do you believe that you can count how many shells the enemy has fired at you while under fire. And here they often write reports where not only the caliber but also the number of shells are indicated.

[Mountain shooter]

Quote: Shiden

you believe that you can count how many shells the enemy has fired at you while under fire. And then here they often write summaries where not only the caliber but also the number of shells are indicated

I not only believe, but also know. If this is not a massive artillery barrage, you can accurately determine the number and caliber of shells, and even quite accurately - the direction from which they are hitting. This is if the howitzers. Mortar - only quantity and caliber, if the mortar hits from the trench. If in the field - then you can determine the direction, if the wind does not interfere. The wind blows the sound well.

[Shiden]

You answer as a person who was not fired at this is the first, and secondly, if you shoot, then you know exactly how many shells you fired, and if you can only guess.

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

The main thing is that the runway in Kiev is not to be mined. It will come in handy ....)

[Prisoner]

The problem is simple. Bring the tank with alcohol to the place of demining, place the APU unit along the border of minefields and water the diseases from the belly.

[isv000]

Ukrainian Armed Forces are experiencing problems with mine clearance

It's time for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to think, look back at the fighters thrown in Afghanistan, and finally realize that the planter's natives are not interested in the problems ...

[Alex_You]

According to the Luhansk authorities, the Ukrainian military in recent months has carried out extremely chaotic disorderly mining, and now they were unable to clear the controlled territories on their own.

Why mine first and then clear mines?

[paco.soto]

AUTHOR:
Nikolay Stalnov
PHOTOS USED:
The official website of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine www.mil.gov.ua
Nikolay, Good afternoon, my request to you: treats the illustrations of the article more responsibly. This is an old photo of some artelirian cypregil unknown to me from an irrelevant artillery exercise.
Regards to you!