Russia uses natural gas pipelines to attack Ukrainian troops from the rear of Kursk

Ukraine Tingfu (AP) – Ukraine’s military and Russian war blogger reported that Russian special forces had taken a kilometre (mile) behind the Kursk region and attacked Ukrainian units from the rear of the Kursk region. Moscow reported that Moscow had moved back to part of the border province, and Tingfu took back the shocking offensive in part of the Motork region.

Ukraine launched a bold cross-border invasion on Kursk in August, marking the largest attack on Russian territory since World War II. Within days, Ukrainian troops occupied 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of territory, including the strategic border town of Sudzha, and occupied hundreds of Russian prisoners of war. According to Kiev, the operation aims to gain bargaining chips in future peace negotiations and force Russia to transfer its troops to an offensive in eastern Ukraine.

But after a few months of running in Ukraine’s Thunder, its soldiers in Kursk were tired and bleeding, relentlessly attacking more than 50,000 soldiers, including some from Russian ally North Korea. Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers risked being surrounded by open source maps of battlefield performances.

According to a telegram post by a Ukrainian-born pro-Kremlin blogger, Russian agents walked about 15 kilometers (9 miles) inside the pipeline, which Moscow had not sent to Europe until recently. Blog Yuri Podolyaka claims that some Russian troops stayed in pipes for a few days before hitting Ukrainian troops from Ukrainian troops near the town of Suzha.

The town had about 5,000 residents before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and had major gas transfer and measurement stations on the pipeline, once the main export of Russian gas through Ukrainian territory.

Another war blogger who uses alias two professionals said that fierce fighting in Sudzha is underway and Russian troops have managed to enter the town through gasoline pipelines. Russian Telegraph Channel shows what they are talking about is a special forces agent, wearing a gas mask and moving along what looks like the inside of a large tube.

Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed on Saturday night that Russia’s “sabotage and attack groups” used the pipeline to gain a foothold outside Sudzha. It said in a telegram post that the Russian army was “detected in time” and that Ukraine responded to rockets and artillery.

“At present, Russian special forces are being discovered, blocked and destroyed. The enemy has suffered high losses in Sudzha,” the General Staff reported.

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