The Russian special forces have slipped for kilometers through a gas pipeline near the city of Sudzha to try to surprise the Ukrainian forces as part of a major offensive to eject them from the Russian Western region of Kursk, said pro-Russian war bloggers.
The trick was one of the movements to cut thousands of Ukrainian soldiers in the region before Ukrainian discussions with the United States on a possible peace agreement to end the war.
Ukrainian troops seized about 1,300 square kilometers from the Kursk region of Russia in August in what kyiv said an attempt to obtain a negotiation program in future negotiations and to force Russia to move eastern forces of Ukraine.
Russia has put pressure on its thrust to regain control of the region with some success in recent days. On Friday, open source cards showed that the kyiv contingent in Kursk almost surrounded after rapid Russian advances.
“The lid of the smoking cauldron is almost closed,” said former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on the telegram email service. “The offensive continues.”
The European Union is considering an aid plan of more than $ 1 million for Ukraine and increases defense spending after the suspension of military aid by US President Donald Trump to the concerns fueled by the American president can no longer rely on American protection against Russian assault.
Yuri Podolyaka, a pro-Russian military blogger of Ukrainian origin, said that the Russian special forces have lacked almost 16 kilometers along the 1.5 meter wide gas pipeline and spent several days in the pipe before surprising Ukrainian rear forces near Sudzha.
The pro-Russian war blogger two majors said that a great battle was underway for Sudzha and that the Russian forces had surprised Ukrainian soldiers by entering the region via a large channel.
A declaration of the airborne assault forces of Ukraine said that the Russian soldiers had used the pipeline to try to gain a foothold, but the Russians were quickly detected and attacked with rockets, artillery and drones.
The Ukrainian army staff in an late afternoon report said Ukrainian forces have pushed 15 Russian attacks in the Kursk region with six armed clashes. He also reported 12 Russian air strikes on their positions.
Faced with North Korean exhaustion and troops, these soldiers who fight for Ukraine say that the war must end. A team of news from the CBC spoke to them before returning to the front line, trying to hold a territory seized in the Russian Kursk region.
In its daily update on the situation in Kursk, the Russian Defense Ministry said that its forces had taken over the village of Lebedevka, as well as the seizure of NOVENKE, a hamlet through the border in the region of Sumy neighboring Ukraine.
Moscow did not make any official mention of the pipeline operation, but the major-general. ATTI ALAUDINOV, commander of the AKHMAT special forces of Chechnya, photos republiated on Telegram of special forces inside a gas pipeline.
“I am surprised by people who really think Russia could lose,” said Alaudinov. “It’s a good day.”
The Russian telegram channels have shown special forces of forces in masks and gas lights, some using colorful colloquy Russian curses, while they were heading along what looked like a large pipe.
Due to the restrictions on reports on the battlefield on both sides, Reuters could not verify the reports.
The Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod pipeline from the Soviet era had used Western Siberia gas via Sudzha in Ukraine, but Ukraine has ended all Russian gas transit through its territory from January 1.
Another war blogger, Yuri Kotenok, said that Ukrainian forces were removing the equipment from Sudzha, closer to the border.
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Reuters could not independently verify the report.
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