Here's the BBC piece that I referenced in the OP.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66306150
And another piece, in which a UAF sapper is interviewed. This one focuses a bit more on the threat of anti-personnel mines and the challenges faced by shorthanded Ukrainian sappers. The last line of the article offers a tantalizing, if vague, hint of new, more effective tactics to defeat Russian minefields.
"We are learning to improvise and to invent ways to make quick, safe paths through the minefields. But we are fighting a very vicious enemy," [the Ukrainian sapper] said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66080652
I'm curious to learn what those innovative tactics are.
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