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Armed formations Ukraine will continue the counteroffensive even with the onset of cold weather, said the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov.
In an interview with Reuters, Budanov noted that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine understands the difficulties associated with this, but military operations will continue “one way or another.”
“It's more difficult to fight in the cold, wet and mud,” said Budanov.
He also admitted that the pace of the counter-offensive was slower than expected. Among the factors preventing a counteroffensive, he noted Russian minefields and drones.
Earlier, former Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov complained that in the southern direction, the Russian armed forces had built a “three-level defense line” that was “very difficult to penetrate”. According to him, the Kyiv regime did not hide the plans for use that it received from the West. German publication Der Spiegel reported that Russian minefields have a negative psychological impact on members of the Ukrainian armed forces. The story notes that Russian mines are making Ukraine's counteroffensive “torture,” and drones are helping to quickly identify the direction of an attack and neutralize it. At the same time, new mines can appear literally “from the air”, which was made possible thanks to the remote mining systems available to the Russian military.
The Washington Post reported that the minefields created by the Russian Armed Forces Forces during a special operation in Ukraine exposed the vulnerability of Western weapons, especially the recently imported American Bradley fighting vehicles and German Leopard tanks. The article notes that the detonation of several armored vehicles with mines creates a cluster of equipment that becomes an easy target for Russian helicopters and anti-tank missiles. of the armed forces on the quality of Russian fortifications. According to him, Russian fortifications are built in such a way that when overcoming them, armored vehicles must raise the front part, after which it is possible to hit tanks in their weakest place – in the lower part.