[actionfromafar]

That's true, but there is a big cave-at: Soviet shells and North Korean shells can hardly be called modern and there seems to be a lot of duds fired.

Not to mention that Russia has littered whole landscapes with anti-personnel mines, something which didn't really exist in WWI. Small, plastic mines, very hard to detect.

[dralley]

And cluster munitions, used extensively by both sides.

[actionfromafar]

Yep. Forgot about those. All of that stuff is going to be a sad surprise for a farmer one day, just like in France. :-/

[lostlogin]

It’s one of the most productive bits of farmland on earth due to its soil type. Presumably one of the reasons Putin decided to take it.