{"id":255267,"date":"2025-03-09T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/russian-forces-creep-through-disused-gas-pipeline-in-attempt-to-launch-surprise-attack-on-ukrainian-soldiers\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T14:33:11","slug":"russian-forces-creep-through-disused-gas-pipeline-in-attempt-to-launch-surprise-attack-on-ukrainian-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/russian-forces-creep-through-disused-gas-pipeline-in-attempt-to-launch-surprise-attack-on-ukrainian-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian forces creep through disused gas pipeline in attempt to launch surprise attack on Ukrainian soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russian special forces crept through a disused gas pipeline for several miles to launch a surprise attack on Ukrainian soldiers in the Kursk region, Ukraine’s military and pro-Moscow war bloggers have said.<\/p>\n

Footage circulating on the Telegram app claims to show the elite soldiers crouching as they make their way through the darkness of the pipe to the town of Sudzha.<\/p>\n

Some can be heard cursing in Russian and complaining about the commanders who sent them on the mission.<\/p>\n

One of the soldiers is heard saying: “F*****g hell, where the f*** are we, boys?”<\/p>\n

Another says: “Where does the pipe go? To Sudzha, for f**** sake, that’s f***ing crazy.”<\/p>\n

Later in the clip a soldier is heard saying: “We’ll get there of course, but indignantly, because we’re f*****g sick of the f*****g command.”<\/p>\n

He later adds: “They took our f*****g assault rifles too.”<\/p>\n

Two of the soldiers are seen smoking cigarettes while a separate image shared on Telegram shows an operative wearing a gas mask.<\/p>\n

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The special forces soldiers walked around nine miles (15km) through the pipeline which Moscow had until recently used to send gas to Europe, according to Telegram posts by Ukrainian-born pro-Kremlin blogger Yuri Podolyaka.<\/p>\n

In the footage, the soldiers suggest the mission requires them to walk seven miles through the pipe.<\/p>\n

Mr Podolyaka says some of them spent several days in the pipeline before striking Ukrainian units from the rear near Sudzha.<\/p>\n

The operation formed part of efforts by Russia to recapture areas of Kursk which were seized by thousands of Ukrainian soldiers<\/a><\/strong> in a shock offensive in August last year.<\/p>\n

Another pro-Russian war blogger, who uses the alias Two Majors, said a major battle is under way in Sudzha after Moscow’s special forces crept through the pipe.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s general staff confirmed on Saturday that Russian soldiers had used the pipeline in an attempt to gain a foothold, but airborne assault forces promptly detected them, and they responded with rocket, artillery and drone attacks that destroyed Moscow’s units.<\/p>\n

“The enemy’s losses in Sudzha are very high,” the general staff reported.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong>
US pausing military aid is ‘betrayal’, Ukrainian soldier tells Sky News<\/a><\/strong>
Russia ‘appears to have ignored Trump warning’ after deadly strike<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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It comes as Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces shared a video on Telegram on Saturday which it claims shows Kyiv’s forces repelling Russian forces in Kursk with airstrikes.<\/p>\n

Sky News has not independently verified the footage.<\/p>\n

Months after Kyiv’s forces seized parts of Kursk, Ukrainian soldiers are weary and bloodied by relentless assaults of more than 50,000 Russian troops, including some from Moscow’s ally North Korea<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers run the risk of being encircled, open-source maps of the battlefield showed on Friday.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Russia’s defence ministry said this morning that it had captured a settlement in Kursk and another in Ukraine’s Sumy region.<\/p>\n

Russia also launched heavy aerial attacks overnight on Ukraine into Saturday – with at least 22 people killed, including 11 in the frontline town of Dobropilla in Ukraine’s<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>embattled eastern Donetsk region.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian president Voldymyr Zelenskyy described the attacks as a “vile and inhumane intimidation tactic” by Russia<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The attacks come after the US paused military aid and the sharing of intelligence<\/a> <\/strong>with Ukraine this month after a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Mr Zelenskyy descended into a confrontation in front of the world’s media.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration’s stance on Ukraine and apparent favouring of Moscow has sparked concern among European leaders.<\/p>\n

Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics told Sky News on Sunday<\/a><\/strong> that European countries should “absolutely” introduce conscription as he conceded the continent was “quite weak” militarily in the face of the Russia threat.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Russian officials have been criticised after presenting mothers of soldiers killed in Ukraine with gifts of meat grinders on International Women’s Day.<\/p>\n

Russia is often accused of throwing its troops into a “meat grinder” with little regard for their lives.<\/p>\n

The local branch of government in the northwestern Russian town of Polyarniye Zori defended itself against the backlash, saying critics were making “callous and provocative interpretations” of the gifts.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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