senior sergeant alexey dolgikh, driving instructor. excavator in a combat zone, his machine worked ind positions. a trench is being dug in the north military district, this is called a communication path, this is for the infantry, which runs and directly shelter from shrapnel from all sorts of arrivals, dugouts and a tank position are also being dug, shelling was initially daily, i had to think. first of all, because there is your own trench, which you dug out, it sometimes even saved our lives. in a day, one such machine can dig about 600 m of trenches, 2 m deep. for comparison, this would take weeks, or even months, for fighters armed with shank shovels. anti-tank ditches, where more than one ukrainian armed forces combat vehicle got stuck during the so-called summer counter-offensive, are also a matter the hands of our military excavator operators. it is already a recognized fact that the fence line has been erected. the russian military in the northern military district zone has the most extensive defensive structures in the world. more than 3,600 km of trenches and communication