The Russian special forces crept through a gas pipeline near the city of Sudzha for many kilometers, trying to surprise Ukrainian forces as part of a serious offensive to throw them out of the Western Russian Kursk region, said pro -Russian war bloggers.
Ruse was one of the movements aimed at cutting down thousands of Ukrainian soldiers in the region before Ukrainian talks with the United States about a possible peace agreement for the end of the war.
Ukrainian troops occupied about 1300 square kilometers of the Russian Kursk region in August in what, according to Kiev, was an attempt to obtain a tender system in future negotiations and forcing Russia to change forces from eastern Ukraine.
Russia has been pressing its success in recent days to regain control of the region. Open Source maps on Friday showed Kiev's contingent in Kursk almost surrounded by rapid Russian development.
“The scorching boiler cover is almost closed,” said former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on the Telegram message. “The offensive continues.”
The European Union is considering a help plan in the amount of over $ 1 trillion to Ukraine and increases defense expenditure after US President Donald Trump's suspension of military assistance for Kiev fueling EU fears can no longer consist in protecting the US against Russian aggression.
Yuri Podolyaka, born in a Ukrainian, pro -Russian military blogger, said that the Russian special forces exceeded almost 16 kilometers along the internal gas pipeline with a width of 1.5 meters and spent a few days in a pipe before it surprises Ukrainian forces at the back near Sudzh.
The pro -Russian war blogger two specializations said that a serious battle for Sudzha was underway and that Russian forces surprised Ukrainian soldiers, entering this area through a serious gas pipeline.
The statement of Ukraine in the air of assault force was found that Russian soldiers used a pipeline, trying to conquer the abutment, but the Russians were immediately detected and attacked with rockets, artillery and drones.
Ukrainian military staff in the late afternoon report said that Ukrainian forces pushed 15 Russian attacks in the Kursk region, with six armed clashes. 12 Russian raids were also reported in their positions.
In the face of exhaustion and soldiers from North Korea, these soldiers fight for Ukraine, claim that the war must end. The CBC information team talked to them before they returned to the front line, trying to maintain the territory confiscated in the Russian region of Kursk.
In the daily update of the situation in Kursk, Russia, the Ministry of Defense said that his forces regained the village of LeBedevki, as well as the takeover of Novenke, villages abroad in the neighboring region of a sum in Ukraine.
Moscow did not officially mention the pipeline surgery, but General Major. Apti Alaudinov, commander of the special forces of Achmat in Chechnya, published photos on the telegram of special forces in a gas pipeline.
“I am surprised by people who really think Russia can lose,” said Alaudinov. “It's a good day.”
Russian telegram channels showed photos of special forces in gas masks and lights, some use colorful colloquial Russian curses when they walked along the interior of something that looked like a large pipe.
Due to the limitations of Battlefield reporting, Reuters was unable to verify the reports on both sides.
The Rukierz pipeline from the Soviet-Oomary-Uzhgorod era used to bring gas from Western Siberia by Sudzha to Ukraine, but Ukraine ended all Russian gas transport through its territory from January 1.
Another war blogger, Yuri Kotenok, said that Ukrainian forces move the equipment from Sudzha, closer to the border.
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Reuters could not independently verify the report.
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