Text taken from the Telegram channel of Iron Wind
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
German military historian Paul Carrell (pen name of German SS major Paul Schmidt) in his book Scorched Earth mentions the capture of Bruno Formello, saying the information provided was so reliable, the Soviets launched a preemptive artillery strike on German start positions.
[ColonelCassad] These are the guys who grabbed a valuable prisoner, information about which reached the headquarters of the front and personally K.K. Rokossovsky, and it was decided to counterstrike.
The name of the prisoner was Bruno Formel, a sapper of the 6th Infantry Division. In addition to the message that "it will begin now," he told how demining was carried out on a regular basis then, in the hours before the "Citadel".
At night, sappers crawled to look for mines and neutralize them. First their own, then others.
Formel testified: “It was ordered to make one passage 3-5 meters wide for each advancing company. For this purpose, a sapper group consisting of 3-5 soldiers and a cover group consisting of 7-10 soldiers (infantry) headed by a junior commander were allocated. After arranging the passage, the sapper group with a Russian mine as material evidence [they did not trust the comrades for a word, yes - the Iron Wind] should return to their original position, and the cover group remained in place to guard the passage.
Now you don’t crawl like that under a copter with a thermal sight, of course.
https://t.me/iron_wind/539 - zinc
And not only. Now the passage in the minefields can be filled up remotely with mines. The same "Agriculture" or "Mars-II".
"Agriculture" is remote mining complex, field artillery scatterable mines (FASCAM). MARS II is an MRLS.
Well, engineering equipment for breaking through minefields and tanks with minesweeps, as practice shows, is very vulnerable in open areas and is affected by artillery, aviation and drones.