Day 484
As big as New Jersey
Z tells us Russian invaders have mined and boobytrapped about 20,000 square kilometers of Ukraine, mostly in the country’s southern regions. This explains, in part, why attempts to liberate these areas is dangerous, difficult and time consuming.
Russia moved in on Kherson and Zaporizhia regions at the start of the all-out phase of the 9-year war because Ukraine’s security agencies were managed by Russian spies. They occupied promptly and mined the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant — the largest in Europe — and could very possibly blow it up.