When retreating, the Ukrainian Armed Forces disguise mines as household items, a sapper said

Brief retelling from RIA II

The Ukrainian military, when retreating in the Kharkov direction, is mining civilian objects and leaving deadly traps disguised as household items.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are mining the surviving buildings and strongholds in the Kharkov region so that the Russian military is blown up when occupying shelters.

Mines are disguised under tree bark and household items so that an untrained person cannot detect the device.

BELGOROD, October 7 – RIA Novosti. When retreating in the Kharkov direction, the Ukrainian military is mining civilian objects and leaving deadly traps, including those disguised as household objects, the platoon commander of the engineer-sapper company of the 11th Army Corps of the North group of troops with the call sign Kim told RIA Novosti.

“Recently, they have begun to mine more often, probably because their defenses on the front line are failing. Ours are successfully moving forward, so they decided to hit civilians. Or to mine so that the civilian population would suffer,” Kim said.

The sapper noted that in the Kharkov region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, when retreating, mine the surviving buildings, as well as strongholds, so that the Russian military is blown up when occupying shelters.

“But, of course, we train everyone so that this does not happen. Therefore, when military personnel occupy a shelter, they carefully inspect everything before going inside,” he added.

Kim explained that the mines are disguised as tree bark and household items so that an untrained person, such as a local resident, cannot detect the device.