Russian troops are being forced to engage in “hand-to-hand combat” in Ukraine, possibly due to a lack of ammunition, the latest figures show, while conscripts are being forced to fight with infantry shovels, which are also used to dig trenches, the UK Ministry of Defense has claimed. Protection.

The latest data indicate an increase in the number of hand-to-hand combat in Ukraine. This is likely due to the fact that the Russian command continues to insist on offensive actions mostly by infantry with less artillery support, because Russia is short of ammunition, according to the British military secret service.

In late February 2023, mobilized reservists said they were ordered to attack a Ukrainian concrete stronghold armed only with “firearms and shovels.”

They are probably trench-digging tools used for hand-to-hand combat.

The lethality of the army’s standard MPL-50 earthmoving tool is particularly mythologised in Russia, the UK MoD claims.

Little changed since its inception in 1869, its use as a weapon emphasizes the “brutal and low-tech warfare” that characterized much of the war.

One of the reservists claimed that he was “neither physically nor psychologically ready” to bind the point of support with a pin.

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