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Crazy video footage from Ukraine shows Ukrainian civilians driving straight through an anti-tank minefield in the middle of a road.

Several cars carefully navigated through the mines one after another trying to evade the explosives.

The mines appears to have been M-62M anti-tank blast mines armed with a 7.5 kg explosive charge and an operating pressure of 150+ kg.

Luckily the mines were not magnetic.

There are unconfirmed reports that the mines got placed by retreating Russian forces in the area of Kyiv but we can not say for sure.

Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced a historic increase in military spending. It included a one-time sum of 100 billion Euros to swiftly upgrade the armed forces, and a pledge to spend at least 2 percent of Germany's economic output on defense every year. So what exactly is Germany planning to buy with these billions?

Germany's government has just announced it's activating its early warning plan in anticipation of possible shortages of gas supplies from Russia.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck stressed that there are currently no shortages, but that the government would be establishing a crisis team to monitor the situation more closely. The move follows Russia's demand for gas payments in rubles, which Germany and other western nations have rejected.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia was massing troops for new attacks in the Donbas region. Zelenskyy also said Russian forces moving away from Kyiv was a result of "our defenders' work" and was not a withdrawal.