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  • Source: Agencies
  • 21 Mar 2025 16:20
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According to a battalion commander, a force of approximately 500 Russian fighters navigated through the pipeline toward Sudzha.

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  • Operation flow in Kursk region took three months to planIn this photo distributed by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Monday, March 17, 2025, a Russian soldier prepares to raise a flag atop a house in Staraya Sorochina, a village in the Sudzha district of the Kursk region of Russia after it was taken over by Russian troops (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Operation Flow, a meticulously planned maneuver that saw Russian fighters infiltrate Ukrainian lines through an abandoned gas pipeline near Sudzha in the Kursk Region, took approximately three months to prepare, according to the battalion commander known by the call sign Morpekh from the Veterans Separate Air Assault Brigade.

“It [the operation] was prepared actually for three months,” Morpekh told TASS on Friday. He emphasized that the mission was designed with multiple exit points: “To understand it, there wasn’t just one exit from the pipe, there were two. The first exit was prepared for the movement of the personnel to the right flank, to Sudzha and the Sumy Region. The second was for the movement to the left flank, to bridges and the industrial zone.”

A force of approximately 500 Russian fighters navigated through the pipeline toward Sudzha, utilizing these two exits to effectively distribute personnel across different positions. Morpekh explained the strategic necessity of this approach: “It is impossible to make so many troops get out of one pipe exit only. If we had tried, we would have sustained heavy casualties because they would have been getting out of the pipe slowly.”

During the operation, members of a combined assault force—including servicemen from the 11th Guards Separate Air Assault Brigade, the 30th Regiment of the 72nd Motor Rifle Division, the Akhmat commando unit, and volunteers from the Veterans and Vostok V Assault Brigades—traveled nearly 15 kilometers inside the pipeline before launching a surprise offensive deep into Ukrainian defenses near Sudzha.

On March 12, Russia’s Chief of the General Staff and First Deputy Defense Minister, Army General Valery Gerasimov, stated that more than 600 fighters had participated in the pipeline operation. He specifically commended the Veterans and Akhmat formations, the 11th Air Assault Brigade, and the 30th Motor Rifle Regiment for their contributions.

Gerasimov praised “heroic actions by the combined assault force,” noting that the operation took Ukrainian forces by surprise, significantly weakening their defenses and facilitating Russian offensive operations in the Kursk Region.

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