Butphone diversions: The Times showed production of layouts for the Armed Forces (photo)

Journalists spoke with Michael Roman, who manages a volunteer detachment for the production of layouts of various weapons. Production is located in the west of Ukraine. Thanks to them, the occupiers produce artillery ammunition or drones-Kamikadze "Lancet" for blows. The 122-mm artillery shell costs about $ 1,000 and Lancet-$ 35,000. While the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation focuses on layouts, real weapons have the opportunity to and continue to beat the occupier.

Moreover, to deceive the Russian thermal imagers, quietly candles are placed near the butaphor. "It was a triumph. Every time one of our baits is destroyed, I am glad because it means a saved life," Roman said. The Chinese philosopher is quoted by the Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu and his work "The Art of War". The treatise stated: "All war is based on deception. " Ukraine imitates the tactics of deception, even inflatable versions of Himars or M270 are created to make rockets in vain.

The cost of one layout is not cheap, one layout costs about $ 10,000. In another city, in the west of Ukraine, the Army-designer firm also has a volunteer group that makes layouts. They created a fake "Stugna-P" made of old flower pots and brackets for curtains. The layouts are also made for Starlink. The cost of such a layout is less than 500 UAH (10 pounds). They are made of papier-mache.

But despite all the ingenuity of Ukrainians, the novel knows that his "Potemkin army" will not last for a long time, if he is not complemented by a real weapon in the face of the huge fire power of Russia. "We are highly in need of artillery ammunition, real howitzers. The Russians are coming, and our resources are limited," Michael Roman sums up. We will remind, on June 3 Foreign Policy named three scenarios of end of the war, but Ukraine is not ready for them.