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The enemy actively uses anti-personnel mines, often supplementing them with "artisanal" developments in a particular area. But this "handicraft" is not at all due to a shortage of factory mines. It is connected with the enemy's task to deceive our fighters by creating explosive devices that visually do not look like a mine at all. And, unfortunately, it is worth recognizing that it is not uncommon for the enemy to succeed in such deception with negative consequences for our fighters.
One of these "artisanal" booby traps is an improvised explosive device disguised as an ordinary fragment of a branch, a stump of a trunk, a knot. Several tens of grams of explosives, batteries, wires, and a detonator are placed in the hole – the parts are connected to each other.
Further, such an antipersonnel mine is left, for example, on a forest path or on the bank of a river, the danger of crossing which the enemy considers high by our troops.
Photo unfair_advantageTherefore, a mine, sorry, "collective farm" is only at first glance. In fact, this is really a collective action from the enemy, which you need to be prepared for. And sappers have already discovered and defused several such traps, mainly near forest belts and plantings.
Photo unfair_advantageThese "tricky" mines, of course, do not fit any conventions. Although the enemy has not observed any of the conventions for a long time.
