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LONDON \u2014 Russian special forces walked inside a gas pipeline to strike Ukrainian units from the rear in the Kursk region<\/a>, Ukraine\u2019s military and Russian war bloggers reported, as Moscow claimed fresh gains in its push to recapture parts of the border province that Kyiv seized in a shock offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine launched a daring cross-border incursion into Kursk<\/a> in August, marking the largest attack on Russian territory since World War II. Within days, Ukrainian units had captured 386 square miles of territory, including the strategic border town of Sudzha, and taken hundreds of Russian prisoners of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Kyiv, the operation aimed to gain a bargaining chip<\/a> in future peace talks and to force Russia to divert troops away from its grinding offensive in eastern Ukraine.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But months after Ukraine\u2019s thunder run, its soldiers in Kursk are weary and bloodied by relentless assaults of more than 50,000 troops, including some from Russian ally North Korea. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are at risk of being encircled, open-source maps of the battlefield show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Telegram posts late Saturday by a Ukrainian-born, pro-Kremlin blogger, Russian operatives walked about 9 miles inside the pipeline, which Moscow had until recently used to send gas to Europe.<\/a> Some Russian troops spent several days in the pipe before striking Ukrainian units from the rear near Sudzha, blogger Yuri Podolyaka claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The town had some 5,000 residents before the full-scale February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and it houses major gas transfer and measuring stations along the pipeline, which was once a major outlet for Russian natural gas exports through Ukrainian territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another war blogger, who uses the alias Two Majors, said fierce fighting was underway for Sudzha, and that Russian forces managed to enter the town through a gas pipeline. Russian Telegram channels showed photos of what they said were special forces operatives, wearing gas masks and moving along what looked like the inside of a large pipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine\u2019s General Staff confirmed Saturday evening that Russian \u201csabotage and assault groups\u201d used the pipeline in a bid to gain a foothold outside Sudzha. In a Telegram post, it said Russian troops were \u201cdetected in a timely manner\u201d and that Ukraine responded with rockets and artillery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt present, Russian special forces are being detected, blocked and destroyed. The enemy\u2019s losses in Sudzha are very high,\u201d the General Staff reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A third Russian war blogger argued that the attacking force lacked the logistical backup to succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFood, water, ammunition, communications, charging electrical devices, power banks, the approach of the main forces, evacuating the wounded \u2026 Two or three groups in the rear without all this \u2014 that\u2019s a disaster,\u201d the blogger, who describes himself as a soldier with the call sign Thirteenth, wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Associated Press could not independently verify the accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian Defense Ministry reported Sunday that its troops had taken four villages north and northwest of Sudzha, with the closest lying some 7.5 miles from the center of the town. The claim came a day after the ministry reported the capture of three more villages near Sudzha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine did not immediately comment on the Russian claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump questions Ukraine\u2019s survival, while France announces new aid package<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday that Ukraine \u201cmay not survive\u201d as he continued to withhold American arms<\/a> and intelligence<\/a> in an effort to force Kyiv into peace negotiations with its invader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with Fox News Channel\u2019s \u201cSunday Morning Futures,\u201d Trump was asked about a warning from Polish President Andrzej Duda \u201cthat without American support, Ukraine will not survive\u201d and whether he was \u201ccomfortable\u201d with that outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He replied, \u201cWell, it may not survive anyway.\u201d He added, \u201cBut we have some weaknesses with Russia. You know, it takes two.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other developments, French Defense Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu said Sunday that France will use profits from frozen Russian assets to finance an additional $211 million in arms for Ukraine, the latest in a series of military aid deliveries funded through the assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with the La Tribune Dimanche newspaper, Lecornu said Paris will send new 155mm artillery shells and glide bombs for Mirage 2000 fighter jets it previously gave to Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian drones said to target Russian oil infrastructure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elsewhere, Russian officials and Telegram channels reported that Ukrainian drones targeted oil infrastructure in southern and central Russia overnight into early Sunday. One drone struck an oil depot in Cheboksary, a Russian city on the Volga River about 620 miles from the border, the local governor reported. According to Oleg Nikolaev, nobody was hurt, but the depot needed reconstruction work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Footage circulated on Russian Telegram channels of what appeared to be a fire at or near one of Russia\u2019s largest oil refineries, in the southern city of Ryazan. Shot, a news channel on Telegram, cited local residents as saying they heard several nighttime blasts near the refinery. The local governor, Pavel Malkov, said Ukrainian drones had been shot down nearby. He claimed there had been no casualties or damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine did not immediately comment on either incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Satellite internet fuels sharp social media exchange<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Concerns that Elon Musk could turn off Starlink satellite internet service to Ukraine prompted a sharp exchange Sunday on X involving Musk, the Polish foreign minister and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski wrote that if Musk\u2019s rocket company SpaceX, which runs Starlink, \u201cproves to be an unreliable provider,\u201d Poland \u201cwill be forced to look for other suppliers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musk told Sikorski: \u201cBe quiet, small man. You pay a tiny fraction of the cost. And there is no substitute for Starlink.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rubio told Sikorski: \u201cNo one has made any threats about cutting Ukraine off from Starlink. And say thank you because without Starlink, Ukraine would have lost this war long ago and Russians would be on the border with Poland right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, Russians are already on the border with Poland because the Russian region of Kaliningrad lies on Poland\u2019s northern border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The back-and-forth between the three concluded with Sikorski thanking Rubio: \u201cThank you, Marco, for confirming that the brave soldiers of Ukraine can count on the vital internet service provided jointly by the U.S and Poland. Together, Europe and the United States can help Ukraine to achieve a just peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press writers Sylvie Corbet in Paris and Zeke Miller in West Palm Beach, Florida, contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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