https://www.rt.com/news/578362-nato-stoltenberg-russia-ukrainian-offensive/
Russian forces managed to build up strong defensive lines ahead of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday. Kiev’s troops are now facing off with well-prepared and dug-in Russian forces, he said, weeks after the start of the much-touted Ukrainian operation, which has yet to yield any meaningful results.
“We know that Ukrainians face a difficult terrain, they face dug-in Russian resistance,” Stoltenberg said during a joint media engagement with Germany’s defense minister Boris Pistorius in the city of Flensburg.
Russian troops had been able to “establish static, well-prepared defense lines with minefields, with Dragon’s teeth, with tank trenches,” the NATO chief admitted. He also said that the military bloc would send additional demining equipment, including “heavy-armored demining” vehicles, to help its troops breach these extensive defenses. He did not name either the number or the exact type of hardware, which is supposedly to be delivered by Germany, the US and other NATO members.