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00:00:35Mariupol, early June 2022,
00:00:38the city, liberated from Nazi Ukrainian formations,
00:00:41is healing its wounds. From the scorching rays
00:00:45of the sun, you can only escape in the shade of trees.
00:00:48You cannot refresh yourself in the waters of the Taganrog Bay;
00:00:51the beaches are fenced off and swimming is prohibited.
00:00:55Currently, the entire coastal strip of Mariupol is at the disposal
00:00:58of sappers. They are clearing the beaches of mines and unexploded
00:01:02ordnance. First, on the shore, sappers search for explosive
00:01:06objects with the help of mine detectors
00:01:09and probes. Then a floating transporter with
00:01:12a cable trawl is launched into the water. The other
00:01:16end of the cable is pulled along the shore by a second vehicle. Soon
00:01:20an explosion raises a column of water the height of a ten-story
00:01:23building. This was one of the anti-landing mines
00:01:27that the Ukrainian Armed Forces generously scattered along the entire coastal
00:01:31strip even before the start of the special military operation. A grandmother and her
00:01:34four-year-old granddaughter were recently blown up by one
00:01:38such mine. Ensuring the safety
00:01:41of the civilian population in the liberated territories is the most important
00:01:45task of military engineers.
00:02:19After the enemy retreated, sappers carry out a complete clearance
00:02:23of the area from
00:02:26explosive objects. Their task is
00:03:00to mine, so additional forces must be brought in, these are the forces of
00:03:03the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and the Rosgvardiya, plus
00:03:06these civilian organizations that are now widely
00:03:09used.
00:03:12Outside settlements, terrain clearance is often carried out with
00:03:15the use of demining machines
00:03:18and robotic systems. This
00:03:21significantly increases the speed of work.
00:03:24Explosive objects, mines, and ammunition are destroyed
00:03:27on the spot using demolition charges.
00:03:32In settlements, sappers search with the help of
00:03:35mine detectors, but they cannot be used everywhere.
00:03:38In industrial buildings, cluttered with metal objects, and in
00:03:42buildings, they are ineffective. Here,
00:03:45a mine-detection dog,
00:03:48a probe, and the sapper's experience and intuition come to the rescue. If
00:03:52an important object or residential buildings are near
00:03:56the discovered ammunition, it is transported to a training ground and detonated there.
00:04:01When this is impossible, it is destroyed on the spot, after ensuring
00:04:05safety.
00:04:09After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited huge stockpiles
00:04:13of military equipment and ammunition, including
00:04:16millions of mines of various types. The Ukrainian Armed Forces
00:04:19also receive engineering ammunition manufactured by NATO
00:04:22countries. Some samples of these weapons were
00:04:26presented at the exhibition of captured equipment in Moscow on Poklonnaya Hill.
00:04:30Engineering ammunition that is used
00:04:33by the opposing side during the special military
00:04:36operation is presented in a very wide range, both
00:04:40in terms of manufacturing countries and direct types
00:04:43of ammunition. Despite the diversity
00:04:46of foreign mines, they did not come as a surprise to
00:04:49our sappers, but some of their specimens
00:04:53can conceal a great danger.
00:04:56DM-31 is an anti-tank anti-bottom magnetic mine
00:05:00of cumulative action with a charge mass of 3.9
00:05:03kg. After its service life, the mine
00:05:07turns off, signaling this by ejecting a bright red
00:05:10cylinder on a spring. Such ammunition can be safely
00:05:14removed, but the enemy
00:05:18is cunning, smart, he modifies
00:05:21ammunition so that the mine throws out a flag, signaling
00:05:25that it is in a safe state, but in fact the detonator
00:05:28continues to work.
00:05:31It is forbidden to touch drones lying on the ground
00:05:35massively used by the enemy without sapper inspection,
00:05:39a detonator may be installed on them that triggers by...
00:06:13Among the engineering ammunition used by Ukrainian
00:06:16formations, many mines prohibited by various
00:06:19international protocols and conventions are supplied
00:06:23to the Kyiv regime by Western countries, but
00:06:26the greatest danger is posed by various improvised
00:06:30explosive devices. Any
00:06:32standard mine has been studied by us in
00:06:36exercises, at training grounds, it is simple for us to
00:06:40demine, but... an improvised explosive
00:06:43device, a sapper places it with his
00:06:46cockroaches, thoughts in his head, and
00:06:49it is quite difficult to demine it, and we decide
00:06:53on the spot how to do it.
00:06:55Retreating nationalists leave all sorts of surprises,
00:06:59explosive devices, and booby traps. Radios, household
00:07:03items, equipment were mined, it even
00:07:06came to the point that
00:07:10charges of substances were placed
00:07:12under the bodies of killed soldiers. It is especially
00:07:15outrageous that they mined children's
00:07:19items. Russian sappers have already encountered
00:07:23similar explosive objects in Syria, where they were installed
00:07:27by militants of various anti-government radical
00:07:30groups. In Ukraine, nationalists use their
00:07:33experience with cynicism, even surpassing their
00:07:36teachers. In explosive devices, the enemy often
00:07:39uses a very insidious detonator, the Johnny. The
00:07:43board includes a magnetometric sensor,
00:07:46an accelerometer, and a gyroscope. This
00:07:49indicates that when the sensor is displaced by
00:07:53a certain angle and moved in space, the sensor generates
00:07:57an impulse to detonate the electric. The
00:07:59device with a Johnny should not be approached with metallic
00:08:02objects, this will lead to an explosion. In response,
00:08:06Russian military engineers created their own detonator. We went
00:08:10further, we already have it based on other principles.
00:09:12The Abrams advanced, but not for long. It was immobilized by a Russian TM-62 mine.
00:09:17The TM-62 mine,
00:09:21it was adopted in sixty-two,
00:09:23it absolutely doesn't care who drives over it, whether it's a Leopard,
00:09:26a Bradley, or an Abrams.
00:09:29You can strengthen the protection of the turret,
00:09:33the hull, but you can't strengthen the tracks,
00:09:36so it takes them off,
00:09:39knocks out the road wheels, and simply blows up a Bradley.
00:09:43A rocket from an anti-tank system
00:09:45hit the repaired tank almost immediately.
00:09:49The Abrams was finished off by kamikaze drones.
00:09:52An engineering demining vehicle was sent
00:09:54to evacuate the tank, but it was not destined to save
00:09:57the assembled. First, Russian paratroopers attacked
00:10:00the vehicle with FPV drones. The crew lost
00:10:03its navigation cameras. Moving blindly, it then
00:10:07ran into a mine. Russian engineers
00:10:11studied the captured vehicle. The main
00:10:15purpose of the M1150 Breacher is to clear paths through minefields.
00:10:18For this, it is equipped with a continuous knife mine
00:10:22trawl. from the factory
00:12:12it is immediately equipped with suppression systems,
00:12:15that is, systems for combating radio-controlled means such
00:12:18as the Lesochek, which makes
00:12:22it more difficult to hit with a drone. The detonation
00:12:26of mines with a magnetic detonator even before the engineering vehicle approaches them is initiated by
00:12:29an electromagnetic attachment. Cutters
00:12:32and rooters on the trawls cut the wired control
00:12:35lines of the
00:12:37ammunition. For the premature detonation
00:12:41of anti-side ammunition with thermal and acoustic
00:12:44sensors, another device is responsible. It
00:12:48uses the principle of aviation thermal traps.
00:12:51Pyrotechnic acoustic cartridges with high combustion temperature
00:12:55are fired in front of the moving vehicle, they also
00:12:58emit sound pressure
00:13:02in a certain range, infrared sound
00:13:04sensors react to temperature and sounds and the mine
00:13:08detonates far before the BMR passes.
00:13:11The crew of the vehicle consists of two people, three more sappers
00:13:14can be accommodated in the troop compartment. The soldiers
00:13:18in the BMR, if necessary, can stay on board
00:13:21the Vepr for several days.
00:13:25A toilet, air conditioning and ventilation systems, a supply
00:13:28of food and water, a device for heating food allow
00:13:32the crew to live autonomously in the vehicle for up to five
00:13:34days.
00:13:36For self-defense, the vehicle is equipped with a heavy machine gun
00:13:40and smoke grenade launchers. The designers
00:13:43paid special attention to the anti-mine protection
00:13:46of the crew, sappers, and internal components
00:13:49of the vehicle.
00:13:53The hull of the T90 tank.
00:14:56The main working body of the machine is a trawler. It
00:15:00destroys or activates mine detonators. The complex
00:15:04was used in the Donetsk People's Republic after the liberation of the city
00:15:07of Avdeevka. There, in particular, it carried out the demining of anti-tank minefields,
00:15:11proving itself to be effective. For the demining of anti-personnel minefields
00:15:14in the liberated territories, military
00:15:17engineers use the Uran-6 robotic
00:15:20complex. It has already been used in the North Caucasus
00:15:23and in Syria.
00:15:25At the beginning of the SVO, to overcome
00:15:28minefields with armored vehicles, UR-77
00:15:31demining systems were used. They
00:15:33cleared a passage 6 wide
00:15:37and 100 m long, but now the depth of anti-tank
00:15:41mine barriers can be more than 300
00:15:44m. Making a passage is
00:15:48ineffective because if we make
00:15:52a 100-meter passage, it won't do anything because they still won't let such a vehicle
00:15:56near. There's a hunt for the UR-77,
00:15:59it's effective. If they see it, they try, they don't
00:16:03spare shells, they try to destroy it.
00:16:38We carried out
00:16:39the fire,
00:16:44the task was completed, we immediately started to drive away
00:16:47from there. As soon as we left the firing point,
00:16:51the Ukrainian forces fired a cluster
00:16:54munition right at that square, at the point from where we
00:16:57fired at them. After driving 100 m from the firing point, they
00:17:01started shelling us with mortars.
00:17:05The first shell fell.
00:17:38without losses of personnel, without losses
00:17:41of armored vehicles. We completed the task, the enemy's
00:17:45stronghold was destroyed, the advance of our troops was
00:17:48opened. The driver-mechanic of the Ur-77 with
00:17:52the call sign Tsygan, has several destroyed enemy
00:17:55fortifications.
00:17:58The new application area of the installations proved their effectiveness.
00:18:01Crews of such vehicles help save tens and hundreds
00:18:05of lives of assault troops advancing on the breakthrough.
00:18:37knowing that it is the first target for the
00:18:41enemy, they still solve
00:18:43the tasks.
00:18:46The crews of the Ur-77 and the crews of the Ur-83
00:18:49were jokingly called urologists by their colleagues, they
00:18:53successfully treat the enemy, though not with medical, but
00:18:57with their purely engineering
00:18:58methods.
00:19:37To share accumulated experience and select the most successful product samples for
00:19:41industrial production, special training camps are held
00:19:45in the engineering troops. They take place at the 187th
00:19:48training center for engineering troops. At these
00:19:51training camps, each head of engineering units, with their
00:19:54teams, showed what they use today
00:19:58in their areas, in their groups, from
00:20:02existing standard engineering weapons, and from
00:20:06what our Kulibins
00:20:08have made today. Stands displayed means of detonation,
00:20:12unmanned aerial vehicles, ground
00:20:15robotic platforms, imitation means, and much
00:20:19more. On the sites, the capabilities of
00:20:22the equipment were demonstrated, since all the weapons samples demonstrated at the training camps
00:20:25are often made from improvised materials
00:20:29by volunteers, and the servicemen themselves, they
00:20:33have a good indicator in terms of price-quality criteria. This is
00:20:36an engineer. The mortar allows the installation of
00:20:40anti-personnel fragmentation mines at
00:20:42distances from 100 m to 1300
00:20:46m, fragmentation mines are installed with
00:21:20they stopped, they developed a robotic
00:21:23mining installation. Based on this mortar, we
00:21:27also developed a mining system. It mines
00:21:30in a salvo,
00:21:33in one salvo it installs 10 mines, two of which
00:21:36are smoke, and here we have more variations for
00:21:40ammunition, here besides the usual expulsion charge, we
00:21:43also have two reactive options, that is,
00:21:47an active reactive charge.
00:21:50from PG-7 and from PG-9, here the mining range
00:21:53is up to 2,800
00:21:56m. After using the expulsion and
00:21:59reactive charges, the grenades themselves remain in the mining system,
00:22:02but for a good owner, even a rusty nail will come in handy,
00:22:06especially a cumulative grenade, and engineers, as is well known,
00:22:09are resourceful people. The warhead went to the FPV drone, which means
00:22:13waste-free production. Well, and they also made not only cumulative
00:22:17ammunition, but also
00:22:20cumulative-fragmentation, that is, to defeat both equipment and personnel
00:22:24nearby. Sappers of the volunteer corps also use
00:22:27unusual means of combat against the enemy.
00:22:31They combined the latest UAV technology and one of the most
00:22:35ancient anti-cavalry obstacles, spikes,
00:22:38known in Russia as "garlic." To combat the enemy's wheeled
00:22:41vehicles, we actively use spikes,
00:22:45we scatter them using UAVs, using these
00:22:48cassettes. This option.
00:24:20is very dangerous, and a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, sapper,
00:24:23reserve colonel Vitaly Kondratov knows this firsthand.
00:24:27The infantry follows us hidden behind armor,
00:24:30infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, and so on, the sapper on the road is completely
00:24:33exposed, he only has a bulletproof vest, and he is the number one target
00:24:37in this regard, so they are inconspicuous and they
00:24:41perform a huge responsible job, risking themselves
00:24:44to save the lives of others. Unfortunately, the special
00:24:48military operation, the engineering troops.
00:24:50did not go without losses, sappers are always at the forefront of the attack,
00:24:54this is of course a very painful topic for us, but it
00:24:57should not be forgotten under any circumstances, it must remain in memory, I think
00:25:01it will remain forever, I always say, I have two
00:25:05families, my native family is my wife and children, and
00:25:08my second family is my
00:25:11regiment,
00:25:14and when you lose your comrade-in-arms,
00:25:18not just a comrade-in-arms, a member
00:25:20of your family,
00:25:23this cannot be compensated
00:25:26by anything, the most painful thing that can happen
00:25:30is the loss of your subordinates, who
00:25:33honorably and with dignity perform
00:25:36tasks, and after that, when you are
00:25:39reported to, well, sometimes you want to cry, because
00:25:43well, these are our children, these are our sons, when a person
00:25:47you knew well dies and you knew
00:25:50life, human life is, of course, priceless, behind him is a whole
00:25:54world, each of your subordinates, especially when he has gone
00:25:57through this whole path with you, at some
00:26:01point you lose. Of course, this is very
00:26:04strongly
00:26:08motivates, I would even say.
00:26:09скажу.
00:26:13Despite the losses during the supply of troops, sappers
00:26:16show mass heroism and courage. For this, the twenty-eighth
00:26:20pontoon-bridge brigade, the thirty-second and
00:26:23fortieth engineer-sapper regiments were awarded
00:26:26the honorary titles of Guards. The first
00:26:30Guards Engineer-Sapper Brigade in...
00:27:32they go into this purposefully, well, that
00:27:36is worth a lot. Fear is inherent
00:27:39in everyone, normal, adequate
00:27:43person. This is
00:27:46a natural instinct, an instinct of self-preservation,
00:27:49but all our
00:27:52state awards, orders, and medals are called the Order
00:27:55of Courage, the Medal for Valour, now the Medal for
00:27:59Bravery. A person is strong
00:28:03who can be above this, above
00:28:05fear. The fear of a sapper, like any soldier, is normal, but
00:28:09fear is different, there is fear that suppresses the actions
00:28:13of a sapper. He bends over a mine, his hands
00:28:16shake, his teeth chatter, he is simply afraid, and he can blow up
00:28:20himself and his comrades, and there is
00:28:23fear that gathers a person, sharpens all
00:28:26his senses, this is our nature, here, well, a brave
00:28:30person simply overcomes fear, he still
00:28:33does
00:28:40what he has to do, completes the task, and everyone is scared, but sometimes something else helps to complete the task, even, it would seem, in the most hopeless situations,
00:28:44you can call it fate, destiny, the help
00:28:47of a guardian angel, or even something more? I
00:28:51believe, of course, there is a guardian angel in the
00:28:55engineering troops for every serviceman, who
00:28:58protects them and creates conditions for them to...
00:29:02perform some tasks, someone is watching
00:29:05from above, maybe relatives, loved ones who are no longer with us,
00:29:08maybe some kind of
00:29:11guardian angel, who was simply given to me by a miracle,
00:29:15uh, protects
00:29:18me in every way, the head of the armed forces came very often, we had such a case,
00:29:21we changed location by 150 m, we moved a little to the side,
00:29:25where we were standing, three artillery shells flew in, so it was like
00:29:29we looked at each other. two minutes later
00:29:33there was a ferry crossing and a missile
00:29:35danger, I give the command to move the ferry away from the shore, as soon as
00:29:39the ferry moves away, two missiles fly into
00:29:43the place where it was standing, the driver drove up to us,
00:29:47got out of the car, and an FPV drone hit that car, everyone
00:29:50was unharmed, not even a scratch,
00:29:53everything is fine, such moments, well,
00:29:57you think, what could it be, well,
00:30:01only a guardian angel? What do miracles say, that the war is
00:30:04righteous, that the Lord himself protects it, that the Mother of God
00:30:08helps, there are countless such miracles, in fact, every unit
00:30:11knows them. The overwhelming majority of participants
00:30:15in the special operation, when asked about faith in God, answer with the well-known
00:30:19aphorism. There are no atheists
00:30:21in the trenches. In difficult times, faith supports
00:30:24everyone. Motor riflemen and paratroopers, tankers and
00:30:28artillerymen, signalmen and sappers, from soldier
00:30:31to general. And it doesn't matter what his religion is,
00:30:34Orthodox or Muslim, Catholic or
00:30:37Buddhist, all of them are united by a common
00:30:41goal: I respect any faith, God is
00:30:44different, we are all the same, in essence, we are all
00:30:48brothers, especially here in the SVO,
00:30:51what is a military collective, a military
00:30:54collective,
00:30:55this is...