Echeloned fortifications made by russian army in Ukraine stretch along almost 1,000 km of frontline, as clearly visible in the satellite photos from Maxar Technologies, published by The Telegraph. These fortifications consist of minefields, anti-tank ditches and personnel trenches reaching 30 m in depth; they are meant to stop Ukrainian forces from liberating the southern territories of their country from the russians.
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The Telegraph quotes a serviceman of the National Guard of Ukraine who says these fortifications are very tough and hard to overcome.
Then, the authors add some details and satellite photos of the area near Mykhailivka town in the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia Region. The photos show russians chose farmers' fields for digging trenches, many of them were dug 30 km afar from the current frontline.
Other satellite images display that the occupiers dug the ditches so deep in order to hide artillery positions and launch surprise attacks on the advancing units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Important to note, the notorious "dragon's teeth" were not placed isolatedly but more like a deterrence measure right before the personnel fighting positions. Also, there may be another stripe of minefields in between.
To make the picture clearer, The Telegraph journalists quote one of the recent reports by the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. The experts say the first line of defense is indeed almost completely composed of "fox holes" for personnel. The second line are proper trenches, often with concrete pillboxes as firing spots.
The distance between these two lines sometimes reaches 5 km, with a 4-meter deep 6-meter wide anti-tank ditch in the middle, and the kill zone of each of those defense lines ranges from 700 m to 1 km. The objective of the third line of defense that is also often arranged by the russians is to conceal reserves of military equipment and manpower.
All these details demonstrate how difficult of a challenge the Armed Forces of Ukraine are facing in their effort to push the russians in a counteroffensive thrust.
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