By Natali Moss
This was stated by the Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Lieutenant General Sergey Naev, writes the press service of the department on Facebook. "We continue to create engineering barriers directly on the state border. We dig anti -tank ditches, we change the terrain," Naev said. According to him, the combined forces prevent the penetration of hostile sabotage groups into Ukraine and the crossing of the border with armored vehicles, installing mine fields.
"We understand that we will not take a long time for the state border with our northern neighbors in civilian form, because we have no friends on the other side of the border," Naev said. He stated that the task was to make a border strip for the enemy impassable. Thus, in the last 10 days it was possible to install 30 anti -tank mine fields and barriers using more than 5. 8 thousand mines. In addition, about 5 thousand meters of trenches and 6.
5 thousand meters of anti -tank ditches are reported along the border. 80 sheltered cracks, shelters and firing positions for personnel, as well as firing positions for heavy equipment were built. Also we will remind that the General of the Armed Forces stated that Ukraine has already received cassette ammunition from the United States. According to the commander of the Tavriya group Alexander Tarnavsky, they have not yet been used on the battlefield.
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