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Barrier troops, blocking units, or anti-retreat forces are military units that are located in the rear or on the front line (behind the main forces) to maintain military discipline, prevent the flight of servicemen from the battlefield, capture spies, saboteurs and deserters, and return troops who flee from the battlefield or lag behind their units.
Australian soldiers in a front-line trench during World War I.Photograph taken by Capt. F. Hurley, sometime between August 1917 and August 1918.. A front line (alternatively front-line or frontline) in military terminology is the position(s) closest to the area of conflict of an armed force's personnel and equipment, usually referring to land forces.
This area has three subsystems of defenses. The frontline extends 150 kilometers with multiple barriers, supported by artillery. The second line could become a new front after a Ukrainian offensive. A third line consists of fortifications around key towns. Russian mobile and positional defenses mean the areas between are also guarded.
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During periods of fine weather in October 1916, British reconnaissance flights had reported new defences being built far behind the Somme front; on 9 November a formation of eight photographic reconnaissance aircraft and eight escorts reported a new line of defences from Bourlon Wood north to Quéant, Bullecourt, the Sensée river, Héninel and ...
Two of these front-line villages lie less than 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of Pokrovsk, while the third is located just over 30 kilometers (19 miles) by road from Kurakhove.
Third Army had now closed up to the Hindenburg Line once more. 20th KRRC, stationed at Courcelles from 10 September, worked on the roads needed to bring guns and supplies up to assault the line. Third Army launched the Battle of the Canal du Nord on 27 September, with 3rd Division successfully assaulting the Hindenburg Support line and taking ...
Medic volunteer Nataliia Voronkova, left, films a paramedic as she tries out medical equipment on Voronkova's 32 year-old assistant Yevhen Veselov, at her base, on the outskirts of Kurakhove ...