Active work on the construction of fortifications began in December 2023 and was carried out even before the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Avdiivka.
The representative of the Tavria operational-strategic group, Dmitry Likhovy, on Wednesday, March 6, published on Facebook photos of engineering and fortification structures at four different points in the Avdeevsky direction. In particular, 2 km before the battle line, in the “red zone”.
According to him, the defense fortifications have almost been built. In some places (quite far from the front line) they are still being built.
Depending on the line, it is done by regional administrations, civil contractors – construction companies; State Special Transport Service; engineering units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, engineering units of mechanized and motorized infantry brigades.
“There are and are some difficulties in the organization. Lack of people, funds, some materials and weapons, near the front line, inertia and delay, bureaucracy, democracy, after all, the fields belong to other people. But there is a result. You can touch it, feel it, and finally climb it and hide from the shelling,” said the OSUV spokesperson.
Likhovy said that active work on the construction of fortifications began in December 2023, and was carried out even before the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Avdiivka, and after the withdrawal they became more active.
In the Donetsk region, new engineering and fortification structures do not look like “walls” or “lines”. This was an extensive system of new platoon strong points (VP) in the second defensive line, from which infantry units would retreat if necessary. Units that participate in the order and partly in the construction of these supports.
There are dozens of these new GPs. With different depths of defense lines. They run in hundreds of meters of zigzag trenches – with fire cells on both sides, covered with cracks, and here and there with armored capsules. These are also caponiers, anti-tank ditches, concrete bunkers, “dragon’s teeth”, other fortifications and barriers, depending on the proximity to the battle line.
According to Likhoviya, if the old standards provided for a trench height of 1.5 meters and a width of 0.8 meters, then the new trenches were 2 meters high and 1 meter wide – so that the fighters could move without bending and carrying them. if necessary. along the trench of the wounded on stretchers.
We remind you that on the night of February 17, units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces left Avdiivka. This happened after several months of constant attacks by the Russian aggressors, who lost thousands of military personnel and hundreds of equipment in the battles for the city.
Ukrainian defenders successfully repulsed the invaders’ attacks west of Avdiivka, taking advantage of the Russian army’s shortcomings.
Source: korrespondent
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