🟠Government response to the video about the supply of defective mines to the 151st mechanized brigade
According to sources from
Censor.net, a working group meeting of the Ministry of Strategic Industries and the Ministry of Defense took place yesterday, with the participation of deputy ministers to discuss the video:
From the General Staff, the head of the Central Department of Defense Resources, V. Stetsiuk, was present. According to the report, more than 60,000 82mm caliber mines from the series shown in the video, produced by one of the enterprises of the Ministry of Strategic Industries, have been delivered to the troops, with no complaints from the troops.
There are about 800 mines of this series left in the warehouse, and a batch of these mines will be fired to test them on the firing range. It was surprising that the working group somehow did not decide to call mortar operators or go to the Donbass region to see how our soldiers use these mines in action. I hope the working group will eventually do so.
Why are there no complaints about the mines? As it turns out, there is an unofficial agreement within the military leadership regarding the prohibition of reporting problems with mines from the Ministry of Strategic Industries.
The personnel of the 151st brigade are forced to sign reports as if they did not receive any mines from this series at all, and as if they did not record the video. I have not yet determined the level of those who specifically demand the signing of these reports.
Perhaps the reason is that defective mines still have to be used in the absence of the delivery of quality ammunition. In this series of mines with M-6 detonators, there is no explosion. Therefore, our soldiers have started modifying the mines themselves. They replace the low-quality explosive charges, sort out the gunpowder, and add 10 grams of plastid under the detonator.
As a result, most of the modified mines explode, but there are still a large number of duds, the nature of which is not accurately determined, as neither the Ministry of Strategic Industries nor the Ministry of Defense investigate such cases on the front lines for both 120mm and 82mm mines.
Mortar operators say that the likely reason for the high number of duds is a violation in the process of filling the explosives into the mine.
Compared to mines produced by NATO countries (for example, Bulgaria supplies 82mm caliber mines), the accuracy of mines from the Ministry of Strategic Industries is very low. However, it is impossible to draw the right conclusions, as neither the Ministry of Strategic Industries nor the Ministry of Defense have ever made trips to the front lines to determine the reasons for the use of defective mines in brigades, all inspections are only done on firing ranges.
I hope that the participants of the working group from the Ministry of Strategic Industries and the Ministry of Defense will be able to organize a trip to the front lines at least once, and visit the actual positions of 82mm and 120mm mines, and speak with the mortar operators at least once.
I talk to many mortar operators, and censorship does not allow me to convey how critically they view the mass supply of defective mines.
I want to remind that the Ministry of Strategic Industries and the Ministry of Defense have not yet issued any official explanations, and have not even refuted or commented on the reports in the media.
It could be understood if there were defects in small batches as a result of rapid production scaling, but the problem persists and is not being resolved, and this needs to be corrected.
Those responsible are avoiding explanations in their offices. The Ministry of Strategic Industries received 25 billion hryvnias from taxpayers in 2024 for the mine production program.
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