US Sniper Tells What Surprised Him In Ukraine

Charter97 reports on what most surprised Sampson when he moved from Iraq and Afghanistan to the Ukrainian front: real trench warfare and pervasive mining. “We don’t train in the trenches at all in the U.S. military. The closest thing we have is training in corridors, but they usually have doors,” he told the outlet. He also described the difference in clearing tactics: “The Russians were mining much more than we had seen in Iraq or Afghanistan. There we tried to clear buildings with as many people as possible. But in Ukraine it’s the opposite, because everything in the rooms can be mined.”