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Reinforced concrete fortresses Avdeevka.
Some people do not clearly understand what the Avdeevsky fortified area is, at best-imagining footage of urban battles, and this is wrong, we are correcting it.
The enemy built this fortification non-stop for 9 years, all important strategic positions were poured into reinforced concrete, and a whole network of fortifications was dug into the ground, a significant part of them are united by passages, trenches, there are underground tunnels, these allow you to survive even heavy shelling, the visible above-ground parts of the dugouts are welded anti-cumulative grilles for protection against anti-tank missiles.
The entire perimeter is covered with CCTV cameras and motion sensors.
This is what our soldiers are now hacking, no one has ever performed such a task in the modern world, and there is no more fortified place on the entire front.
Those tunnels nullify the effectiveness of high impact ordinance. There would need to be constant shelling until all are dead or starved or surrendered in order to take that area.
originally posted by: Irishhaf
a reply to: 777Vader
so a year of being slowly pushed back looking foolish isnt a good enough reason to send your best equipment?
Besides a variety of reports showing the best gear russia has being turned into scrap...
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: Imhere
How full of hate for Ukraine can you get? Whilst glorifying Putin's sad little war?
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized on behalf of Canada’s parliament Wednesday, referring to the “deeply embarrassing” incident last week that saw the chamber applaud a Ukrainian veteran who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II.
“This was a mistake that has deeply embarrassed parliament and Canada. All of us who were in this House on Friday regret deeply having stood and clapped, even though we did so unaware of the context,” said Trudeau in a media briefing in Ottawa Wednesday.
Trudeau also recognized diplomatic damage done to the visiting Ukrainian delegation in attendance that day, which included Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.