Russia erected 2 km of defensive lines in Ukraine
The Russian army during the war in Ukraine built a line with a length of more than 2 thousand km, writes the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda with reference to Yury Stavitsky, Chief of the Engineering Troops of the Russian Armed Forces.
According to him, engineers solve “without exception, the tasks of engineering support” as part of hostilities. In addition to the fortification equipment of the frontiers, they make crossings over water barriers. In total, more than 20 bridges were installed during the war.
Also, the engineering troops are responsible for demining the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, which were captured by Ukraine. First of all, demining took place at especially significant objects, then in a residential area and on arable land. A total of 32,000 hectares of land, more than 280 km of roads and 2,800 buildings have been cleared of mines, Stavitsky said.
In addition to the construction troops of fortification enterprises, an army of mercenaries from the Wagner PMC is engaged. Last fall, the founder of the PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced the Wagner Line network. “We need her, rather, a warrior of the dark formations that stand behind the backs of the Wagner, they considered themselves in the hope of safety, because the Wagner is stronger than concrete,” Prigozhin explained.
Also in the Belgorod region, defensive structures in the form of concrete tetrahedrons began to be assembled. “This will be a continuation of the ‘Wagner Line’ that runs in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions,” said PMC spokesman Andrei Bogatov.
“There will be more ditches, more support pillars – company, platoon. There will be several levels. But this should not cause panic among the population. This is done in order to create a basis for protection,” he explained.
In addition, Russian troops have begun digging trenches and trenches in the south of the Kherson region and in the north of Crimea, Benjamin Pitet, an independent OSINT researcher, reported last fall, citing satellite images. So Russia began to prepare for a possible counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the peninsula after the extradition of Kherson and the withdrawal of troops from the right bank of the Dnieper.
Meanwhile, as writes New York Times, The US is going to help Kyiv develop a plan for the development of events in Crimea to cut off the Russian group from the supply of the Sea of u200bu200bAzov and strengthen Ukraine’s position in the upcoming world negotiations with Russia.