- Russia’s sturdy defensive strains in Ukraine are getting some assist due to regrowing weeds.
- British intelligence stated the regrowth of weeds and shrubs are offering further cowl for troops.
- It “helps camouflage Russian defensive positions and makes mine fields more durable to clear,” UK intel stated.
Russia’s strengthening protection strains in Ukraine have been much more beefed up, due to the regrowth of weeds and crops serving to to cover troops from Kyiv’s forces amid Moscow’s battle with the jap European nation, British intelligence stated on Thursday.
“The predominantly arable land within the fight zone has now been left fallow for 18 months, with the return of weeds and shrubs accelerating below the nice and cozy, damp summer time situations,” the UK’s Ministry of Protection said in its latest daily intelligence update.
It added, “The additional cowl helps camouflage Russian defensive positions and makes mine fields more durable to clear.”
Moreover, British intelligence stated that the shrubbery and undergrowth regrowing throughout the battlefield in south Ukraine “is probably going one issue contributing to the commonly gradual progress of fight within the space.”
Although the undergrowth will help give cowl for “small stealthy infantry assault,” the UK intelligence group stated, “the web impact has been to make it more durable for both aspect to make advances.”
In June, Ukraine launched its long-awaited counteroffensive to reclaim Russian-occupied territory within the east and south of the nation. However Ukraine’s makes an attempt have been slow-moving.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy beforehand stated efforts had been slowed down by the sturdy defenses that Russia managed to realize because it waited for Ukraine’s counteroffensive to start.
Russia’s robust defenses alongside a 600-mile entrance line embrace mazes of intensive trenches, barbed wire, land mines, and anti-tank ditches.
Retired Australian common Mick Ryan just lately described the defensive strains that Russia had inbuilt Ukraine as “rather more advanced and lethal than something skilled by any army in almost 80 years.”
