(1/4) Undergrowth regrowing across the battlefields of southern Ukraine is likely one factor contributing to the generally slow progress of combat in the area.

(2/4) The predominately arable land in the combat zone has now been left fallow for 18 months, with the return of weeds and shrubs accelerating under the warm, damp summer conditions.

(3/4) The extra cover helps camouflage Russian defensive positions and makes defensive mine fields harder to clear.

(4/4) Although undergrowth can also provide cover for small stealthy infantry assaults, the net effect has been to make it harder for either side to make advances.

@DefenceHQ so - will that be the next NATO game changer?

@DefenceHQ How about some peace talks and stopping the killing? I know the money is hard to give up and people are getting rich, end this war!

@DefenceHQ Don't send tanks, send these instead.

@DefenceHQ The ENTIRE establishment in the UK is a corrupt farce.

@DefenceHQ Ukraine urgently requests lawnmowers and weed whackers. John Deere do your part, send tractors!

@DefenceHQ LMAO

@DefenceHQ Slow counteroffensive ? Here's the reason. Send more cash.

@DefenceHQ Are these the weeds and trees that stopped the counteroffensive? https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/st...

@DefenceHQ https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeT...

@DefenceHQ The US will have to give Ukraine agent orange and the cluster bombs.

@DefenceHQ Yeah, the only thing standing between Ukraine and a glory victory is weeds and shrubs. Who would have thought hundreds of billions worth of arms will be defeated by weeds and shrubs...

@DefenceHQ Here you go: https://www.bhg.com/gardening/...

@DefenceHQ Is this for real?

@DefenceHQ 😂🤣😂🤣 No se preocupen, le vamos a pedir a los rusos que les pavimenten los caminos, únicamente tienen que avisar previamente de sus rutas.🤣😂🤣

@DefenceHQ The combat videos make lies of these statements. Slow progress is because the Russians laid minefields that Ukraine can't clear, and are forced into fire zones of the Russian's choosing.

@DefenceHQ More herring perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

@DefenceHQ @secretsqrl123

@DefenceHQ August and September are Ukraine's hydrological dry season, e.g., a net soil moisture deficit. This week's heat wave has the potential of causing an agricultural "flash drought". https://x.com/davidhelms570/st...

@DefenceHQ Give it a couple more weeks, that grass will become a tinderbox allowing rapid spread of wildfires.

@DefenceHQ Sounds like an excuse for a badly planned offensive

@DefenceHQ And you call this “intelligence “? 😂😂😂😂

@DefenceHQ Andere Kriege wurden ja nur auf frisch gemähtem Rasen geführt. Ich vergaß 🤦🏼‍♂️

@DefenceHQ aka: Buttercups & daisies thwart 🇺🇦 counteroffensive 🤷‍♂️

@DefenceHQ I can't believe you waste millions of our tax money to produce this shit.

@DefenceHQ you guys get more embarrassing everyday i had to laugh at this one 😭

@DefenceHQ Undergrowth regrowing overgrown , must be from Monty Python new season

@DefenceHQ I don't think the counter-offensive is going well. The Ukrainians don't have much armour, and they're losing lots of what they've got. The Ukrainians are taking much heavier losses than we are told. EU, NATO triggered this war. We need Russia to survive to balance the EU & China.

@DefenceHQ Is that what you guys come up with really, That 'mother nature ' is a russian agent

@DefenceHQ Instead of being dishonored to the whole world both in social networks and in the media, with obvious nonsense and hiding the real situation with real victims! The world must start diplomacy before we face the real horror of the 21st century! Stop endangering us!

@DefenceHQ This is the funniest shit I’ve seen for years 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡