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While politics continues the "show" of clashes in official meetings in front of international media cameras, on the battlefield, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers continue their bloody war. Just as diplomatically, things do not look good for Ukraine on the battlefield, the Russian army is advancing every day, catching the exhausted Ukrainian forces by surprise.
A news report from the battlefield shows how Russian special forces penetrated an unused 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 elite soldiers crouching as they make their way through the darkness of the tube to the town of Sudzha.
Some are heard cursing in Russian and complaining about the commanders who sent them on the mission. Two of the soldiers are seen smoking cigarettes while a separate image shared on Telegram shows an operative wearing a gas mask.
Special forces soldiers walked about nine miles (15 km) through the pipeline that Moscow had until recently used to send gas to Europe, according to posts on Telegram by Ukrainian-born pro-Kremlin blogger Yuri Podolyaka.
In the footage, the soldiers suggest that the mission requires them to walk seven miles through the pipe. Podolyaka says some of them spent several days in the pipeline before striking Ukrainian units from the rear near Sudzha.
The operation was part of Russia's efforts to retake areas of Kursk which were captured by thousands of Ukrainian soldiers in a shock offensive in August last year.
Another pro-Russian war blogger, who uses the pseudonym Two Majors, said a major battle is underway in Sudzha after Moscow's special forces broke through the pipe.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's general staff confirmed on Saturday that Russian soldiers had used the pipeline in an attempt to gain a base, but airstrikes immediately detected them and they responded with missile, artillery and drone strikes that destroyed Moscow's units.
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers risk being surrounded, open-source maps of the battlefield showed on Friday.
Meanwhile, the Russian defense ministry said this morning that it had captured a settlement in Kursk and another in the Sumy region of Ukraine.
Russia also launched heavy air strikes overnight on Ukraine into Saturday - with at least 22 people killed, including 11 in the frontline town of Dobropilla in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelenskyy described the attacks as a "vile and inhumane scare tactic" by Russia.
The attacks come after the US cut off military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine this month following a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Mr Zelenskyy that turned into a confrontation in front of the world's media./ SkyNews
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