Eight mines per 2 square metres: level of Russian mining in one photo

Minefields laid by the Russian military are one of the serious challenges Ukraine’s military had to face during active offensive operations this summer. Invading Russian troops have indeed demonstrated that they are able to mine on a large scale, quickly and effectively, which was emphasised primarily by the 47th ‘Magura’ Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was among the first to face this threat in early summer.

Recently, the scale of this problem has been expressed in digital terms - as Oleksii Reznikov, the head of Ukraine's defence ministry, said, Ukrainian soldiers in certain areas of the frontline can dig up to five mines per square metre.

You can see exactly how such mines can look like in practice in one of the photos published on the Telegram channel called "Coach's Diaries".

Thus, in the photo below, you can see 8 mines at once, which the Russian occupiers installed on an area of 1-2 square metres, including one Soviet anti-tank TM-62, and seven more anti-personnel PMN-4 mines.

This is a vivid example of so-called cluster mining. "This is mixed mining, when an anti-tank mine is laid and several anti-personnel mines are placed around it. This creates a complex minefield that is very difficult to break through," the source said.

This photo is an opportunity to once again recall the difficulties faced by the Ukrainian forces as they liberate Ukrainian lands from the Russian occupation forces, metre by metre.

And that the pace of Ukrainian military's advance should be determined not by social media or the Western media, but by the military command, taking into account all the realities and challenges of today's battlefield.