Ukrainians are fortifying and flooding underground pipes because Russian troops keep trying to crawl or walk in them

• Ukraine is dealing with the third known Russian case using underground pipes to move forward.

• A new report said Russia uses a gas pipe in Kupansk to create a supply lines close to the city.

• Local Ukrainian forces are trying to resist the tactics by keeping the pipes under water.

Ukraine’s war begins to pass the ground.

Russian troops recently crawled through an underground pipe and try to infiltrate the war lines in Kharkiv, while Kiev’s forces are trying to stop such channels by flooding or strengthening.

Ukrainian observers described the pipeline tactics open to the public last week in Kupansk, City in Kharkiv The region that sees heavy war along the front lines.

For the third time since the beginning of the war, the Russian forces may offer a difficulty in which the Russian forces crawl or walk in the gas or water pipes to avoid detection, and the tactic growing for Ukraine.

Deepstate, a frequently open -source intelligence group, said that on Friday, Russian troops used a gas pipe near Kupansk to cross the nearby Oskil River and create supply lines. Drone pilot positions closer to the city.

The analysts of the group have been published DRONE IMAGES A soldier in a uniformed soldier who dragged a package through a hole in a wooded area. The report echoed on Russian social media channels with a widespread video of soldiers crawling from a pipe. Business Insider could not verify the originality of both clips or independently when taken.

Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff, in a statement on Saturday, Russian troops confirmed that they used a pipeline to carry the troops near Kupansk, but said the city was the city Still under Ukrainian control.

The output of the pipe was not included in the city itself, the general staff, the Ukrainian forces inundated several ways of transition inundated, he added.

“It should be noted that there are several pipelines in the Kupansk region.” He continued: “Three of the four lines have already been damaged and flooded, and the fourth output is under the control of the defense forces.”

On Monday, Ukraine media outlet Espreso released a video interview with Yuriy Fedorenko, a popular drone unit commander. 429. separate unmanned system processionHe said that his teams used engineering ammunition to damage the Kupansk pipe used by Russian troops.

Fedorenko said the Ukrainian forces aimed at an area of ​​the pipe that encounters the Oskil River and allowed the channel to float.

“This does not mean that the enemy cannot restore this pipe over time, but does not mean that it will be closely watched.” He said.

In addition, Ukrainian military bloggers said in a statement on Sunday that Kiev’s forces put a thorny wire into at least one pipeline and wandering a video showing the bubi trapped interior of the pipe. The clip was not approved by the authorities.

The tactic of using the underground pipes reflects a brave Russian operation in March that the Kremlin’s special forces walked about nine miles to hit the back of Ukraine in Kursk from a gas pipe in Sudzha.

Ukrainian officials, the pipe is not used and 1.4 meters or about four and a half feet diameter, he said.

While Russia greeting the attack as a success, Ukraine said that she later discovered the Sabototeur team and killed most of them. Most of the forces of Ukraine Withdrawal from Kursk That month.

At the beginning of 2024, the Russian troops reportedly emptied a service water pipe to move underground in Avdiivka, Donetsk and establish exit holes every 300 meters.

Large gas pipelines It is woven along the Ukraine, which has been serving as a key transit country for Russian gas flowing to Europe before. Most of these trunk lines, which can carry a total of 140 billion cubic meters of gas per year, are not insufficient or used as Europe removes itself from Russian energy.

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