Russians panic that Ukraine's Armed Forces are closing in on them on another front

Khodakovskyi is a Russian collaborator reporting on Telegram

Khodakovskyi said "in addition to the psychological impact on the soldiers, such intensive artillery fire led to the fact that minefields lost their effectiveness, and the constant artillery fire did not allow bomb experts to lay new mines and restore everything they destroyed."

they are simply blasting through the minefields with artillery, and are now hammering away at the scared, out of supply troops behind them

Good, so they should.