Ukraine's armed forces shared footage late on Saturday that it said showed its soldiers attacking elite Russian forces "moving along a gas pipeline branch in an atttempt to gain a foothold" near Sudzha, about 6 miles from the Ukrainian border.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday that recent advances by Russian forces against Ukraine in the Kursk region meant that Kyiv's soldiers were almost surrounded. In a post on Telegram about the fighting in Kursk,

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,

Butusov wrote on Facebook on March 8 that Russian troops had used a gas pipeline to approach Ukrainian positions in Sudzha in Kursk Oblast. He added that the troops are being "liquidated."

Russian forces attempted to approach the city of Sudzha in the Kursk region via a gas pipeline branch. Ukrainian paratroopers detected them and are now neutralizing the threat, according to the Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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

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 Scores of Ukrainian soldiers reportedly seized about 1,