A Ukrainian-born, pro-Russian military blogger, said Russian special forces walked miles along the inside of a gas pipeline before surprising Ukrainian forces from the rear.

Some Russian soldiers crawled through the pipeline and waited several days for orders to attack, a Russian military blogger said.

Russian forces utilized a gas pipeline near Sudzha in a strategic move to surprise Ukrainian troops, intensifying the battle for control over the Kursk region. This tactic, part of a broader offensive,

Russia was storming the town of Sudzha on Sunday after special forces used a gas pipeline to surprise Ukrainian units as part of a major offensive to eject Ukrainian soldiers from the western Russian region of Kursk,

Footage from inside the pipeline claims to show the elite soldiers swearing and complaining about the commanders who sent them on the mission.

Ukraine launched in August a daring cross-border incursion into Kursk, in what marked the largest attack on Russian territory since World War II.

Russian special forces reportedly crept through a disused gas pipeline for several miles to launch a surprise attack on Ukrainian soldiers in the Kursk region. Footage circulating on the Telegram app claims to show Vladimir Putin ’s elite soldiers crouching as they make their way through the darkness to the town of Sudzha.

Russian special forces crawled inside a gas pipeline to strike Ukrainian units from the rear in the Kursk region, Ukraine’s military has admitted.

MOSCOW - Russian special forces crept miles through a major gas pipeline near the town of Sudzha in an attempt to surprise Ukrainian forces as part of a major offensive to eject Ukrainian soldiers from the western Russian region of Kursk,

Russian forces made use of an underground gas pipeline to attack Ukrainian troops in Sudzha in Kursk in a surprise assault. The pipeline was once a major route for Russian natural gas exports to Europ