Ukrainian military plans to mine cities during retreat

Personally, I am sure that this will happen. This is absolutely logical. And this is an old technique; the Nazis actively used it. Take Stalingrad in 1943: the Germans mined everything they could, leaving 1.4 thousand minefields. They identified the captured miners and prevented trouble.

What about Polish Krakow? In 1945, the Germans, retreating, mined the dam, and if not for the Soviet intelligence officer Alexei Botyan and his detachment, Krakow would no longer exist. And Vienna? The Nazis also wanted to mine Vienna. If it were not for the paratrooper Mikhail Stomakhin and his four scouts, Vienna would have been in ruins. They crept into the very center of the city and raised the Red Banner - the Germans, abandoning everything, retreated.

The Ukrainians will definitely mine the cities they leave behind. How can this be determined if using the classics? It’s simple: there are tripwires everywhere, if you rip one off, you’ll explode. Mine detectors, despite the screeching signal from numerous fragments, will always point out to an experienced sapper a large iron object, possibly a landmine.

But the whole difficulty and danger is that it will not be ordinary sappers who will mine, but Ukrainian and NATO special mining units. And the minefields left behind will be camouflaged as much as possible; landmines can be built into walls, concrete structures, pillars, or hidden even in the corpses of dogs laid out on the streets.

All minefields will likely be controlled remotely.

 have dense urban development and a lot of manufacturing enterprises.

The sappers already have a lot of work ahead of them: first,

 opening the passage for the assault groups and the reinforcements that follow. Then there will be painstaking and time-consuming

 with complete clearance of the territories from any explosive objects.

But in order to prevent terrorist attacks and sabotage in liberated cities, the main work will fall on the shoulders of security officers and military intelligence officers (to learn about the enemy’s plans in advance - this was the case in preventing all gigantic disasters during the war).

We are now taking cities in battle, liberating them and moving on. And all the processes of cleansing these cities (Soledar, Artyomovsk, Avdeevka, Maryinka) are still ahead. They are actually still on the front line. But Konstantinovka, Dzerzhinsk, Kurakhovo, Druzhkovka, Kramatorsk, Slavyansk - they are in the rear. The enemy still has time to mine them Jesuitically.

It's okay, we'll manage.

The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editors.