Russians start using a new mine analog of the PFM-1 Lepestok

The enemy has started using new anti-personnel mines in the Kharkiv sector.

The press service of the Kharkiv operational tactical group of troops reported on this.

According to the information available to the operational tactical group of troops, these are pressure-operated mines. They have a 3D-printed body with a fuze and a charge of plastid inside.

The new mines are similar in terms of size and principle of operation to the PFM-1 Lepestok mine, which is banned by international conventions.

Their small size and unpredictable nature make them highly insidious.

There is currently no reliable data on the scalability of the production of these mines in Russia.

The Kharkiv operational tactical group of troops suggests that this may result from a private initiative by individual producers.

These mines, despite their relative ease of manufacture, pose a serious threat to the lives of our defenders.

‘Due to the new danger, we call for increased caution in the combat zones and the liberated territories,’ the statement reads.

In early September, Militarnyi reported that the Russians had started using FPV drones to conduct remote mining.

Some of these mines were equipped with target sensors used on the POM-2 anti-personnel pull fuse mine.

Another part of the mines used a time-delay fuze (a mine fuze with a time-delay mechanism).

The soldiers inform that the demasking factor of such mines is the drone underneath them and the ‘squeak’ of its hardware component.