They would be small fixed shovels of the MPL-50 type, those traditionally distributed to infantry soldiers. This model was developed in 1869 by a Danish officer and very little modified since then.
“The lethal force of this tool has especially been mythologized in Russia”, according to the British ministry. “Its use as a weapon also shows the brutality and low technological intensity that characterizes this war”.
War in Ukraine: “The battle in the Donbass is painful and difficult”, concedes Zelensky
According to British intelligence, the war in Ukraine has been increasingly marked by hand-to-hand combat lately. “There is probably less artillery fire, probably due to a lack of ammunition from the Russians”.
The British Ministry of Defense publishes almost daily an inventory of the war in Ukraine, but its analyzes are qualified as pure propaganda by the Kremlin.
