Ukraine, Kiev strengthens defenses on the border with Russia and Belarus – Muricas News

Ukrainian forces are strengthening their defensive positions alongside the border with Belarus and Russia. The Protection Ministry of Kiev introduced it on Fb, quoting Lieutenant Basic Serhiy Nayev, commander of the joint forces of the Ukrainian armed forces.

“The enlargement of the system of engineering boundaries in areas bordering Belarus and Russia is underway,” Nayev defined, including that minefields are being created “in areas accessible to tanks.” The final specified that greater than 6,000 mines had been planted final week and that Ukrainian troopers are working “24 hours a day, regardless of the climate circumstances”.

In the meantime, Russian forces have constructed a trench greater than 70 km lengthy within the Zaporizhzhia area of Ukraine. The large excavation work is proven by Sentinel 2 satellite tv for pc pictures, writes the Middle for Journalistic investigation, relaunched by Ukrinform.

Work started in early September. Excavations began concurrently from each ends and ended on 18 October. About 70 km lengthy, equal to a couple of third of the utmost size of this area, the mega trench begins from the village of Semenvika, about 9 km from Melitopol, designated by the Russians because the capital of the occupied space. The ditch then extends east to the outskirts of the village of Marynivka in Prymorsky District.