To restrain the offensive: the Armed Forces enhance defense on the border with the Russian Federation and Belarus (photo)

This was reported by Lieutenant General Sergey Naev during a visit to the construction of a company support point of the intermediate defense strip in the Chernihiv region, the press service of the Command of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces on Facebook reports. He noted that the situation in the Chernihiv region was controlled.

The enemy did not create offensive groups despite the fact that the occupiers periodically carry out shelling of the Ukrainian territory from artillery and mortars, try to use DRG and trigger shock drones. "However, we do not sit hands. Defense forces act on prejudice. We are engaged in increasing the number and efficiency of mobile air defense groups, contradictory work continues.

But the main thing is that defense borders are being built and a powerful system of engineering barriers is being created," he said. Sergiy Nayev said that this is to ensure that Ukrainians feel safe, because in the event of an increase in threats will be ready to arrive additional combat crews that will take prepared positions. According to him, these positions are no different from those that are equipped in other northern regions - from Volyn to Kharkiv.

In particular, positions are made according to a typical scheme, but the features of the area can make some adjustments. Nayev noted that each trench is strengthened by geotextile, also equipped with concrete protective structures, dugouts and firing positions, a system of engineering barriers (non -duty and explosive) is formed before the stronghold. After civil organizations have completed their work, the designated areas will be tightly replaced, he said.

The result is an object that can restrain the offensive at least a battalion of enemy forces. "A whole defensive strip is created from the routes, which, in turn, is able to contain much larger military units," Lieutenant General Sergey Naev added. We will remind, on December 20 in the State Special Transport Service reported that the forefathers installed fortifications, announced by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.