[REGNUM] Since August 6, 2024, when the enemy invasion of the Kursk region began, Russian troops have already liberated 32 settlements, according to TASS calculations made by March 10, 2025, based on data from the Russian Defense Ministry. The Sever group of troops is helping to push the enemy out of the Kursk border area.
In the last two days alone, its fighters have reported taking control of seven villages, hamlets and farmsteads, including Malaya Loknya, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye and Kositsa, Lebedevka, Viktorovka, Nikolaevka and Staraya Sorochina.
On March 8, Russian troops showed unparalleled determination, willpower and courage in the Kursk direction, unexpectedly for the enemy breaking through to the industrial zone of the city of Sudzha through the underground Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline. The discussion of this news marked the new, 1110th day of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.
The fighters, who had to walk at least ten kilometers, bent over underground in full gear, risking poisoning from toxic fumes, were called “guys stronger than steel” by the acting head of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, in a Telegram channel.
The Russian Defense Ministry has not yet officially confirmed the breakthrough through the pipe, but the commander of the Akhmat special forces, Lieutenant General Apti Alaudinov, published his conversation with the fighters before the operation on his Telegram channel. Calling the "throw through the pipe" into the rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) truly historic, he also emphasized that the attack aircraft may be on their last combat mission.
The fact that Operation Pipe reduced the number of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Sudzha area by a third and that the Russian Armed Forces fighters were able to enter the settlement was reported by sources of the Mash Telegram channel. It is also noted that in addition to the Akhmat special forces, hundreds of people were involved in the operation.
Meanwhile, fighters of the North group of forces consider it important to note that in addition to the fierce fighting for populated areas of the Kursk region, stubborn battles are taking place in forested areas on all sections of the front.
“Often, the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers who are in positions do not know what is happening even in the neighboring forest plantation and refuse to surrender, thinking that behind them there are still blocking detachments that have long fled to Sudzha,” the group’s Telegram channel noted on March 10.
Details are in the broadcast by IA