Moscow (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Russian defence forces have launched a large-scale attack across western Kursk, to reclaim the region seized by Ukraine last summer.
Major General Apti Alaudinov, leader of a Chechen unit fighting for Russia in Kursk, stated that
the enemy is abandoning its positions,
after reports indicated Kyiv’s forces were surrounded.
As part of its daily update on the situation in Kursk, Russia’s Defence Ministry stated its forces had retaken the village of Lebedevka, as well as capturing Novenke, a hamlet across the border in Ukraine’s neighbouring Sumy region, Reuters reported.
How did Russian forces use a gas pipeline for infiltration?
Moreover, Yuri Podolyaka, a Ukrainian-born, pro-Russian military blogger, expressed that Russian special forces had wandered miles along the inside of the main gas pipeline and some had spent several days in the pipe before stunning Ukrainian forces from the rear close to Sudzha.
Sudzha is the home of significant gas transfer and counting stations on a pipeline that used to carry Russian natural gas into the Ukrainian gas transmission system for onward transportation to Europe.
A report from Ukraine’s general staff expressed that Russian soldiers had employed the gas pipeline in an endeavour to gain a foothold, but airborne invasion forces promptly noticed them and reacted with rocket, artillery and drone raids that were eliminating the Russian units.
How is the Russian forces advancing in Kursk?
Russian forces’ advancements in 2024 and U.S. President Donald Trump‘s revision of U.S. policy on Ukraine and Russia have generated fears among European leaders that Ukraine will fail the war and that Trump is abandoning Europe.
During the last few weeks and months, Russian forces have forced Ukrainian forces back across the Kursk front, putting tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops at risk of being encircled.
Fighting continued throughout the night in Sudzha,
stated Podolyaka, saying that part of the town was under Russian control.
Another war blogger, Yuri Kotenok, stated that Ukrainian forces have been pushing equipment away from Sudzha, near the border.
At the moment, our units are attacking in the north-eastern part of Sudzha and fighting in the area of Lomonosov Street and the industrial zone of Sudzha,
Kotenok stated.
