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That's true, but there is a big cave-at: Soviet shells and North Korean shells can hardly be called modern and there seems to be a lot of duds fired.

Not to mention that Russia has littered whole landscapes with anti-personnel mines, something which didn't really exist in WWI. Small, plastic mines, very hard to detect.




And cluster munitions, used extensively by both sides.


Yep. Forgot about those. All of that stuff is going to be a sad surprise for a farmer one day, just like in France. :-/


It’s one of the most productive bits of farmland on earth due to its soil type. Presumably one of the reasons Putin decided to take it.




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