The complexity of the historic gas pipeline attack

The pipeline was turned off, but it still maintains a pressure with gas so it can be turned on anytime. So Russian engineers had to replace the gas with oxygen, while from the other side gas was still coming to maintain a pressure.

The first engineers fainted and nearly died due to breathing in too much gas, but they were pulled out and returned after the hospital revived them.

800 soldiers went into the pipe for a timeframe of 4 days. The first in the group, hence waited in the pipe for 4 days in small dug out collector rooms under earth.

When the attack began, 300 soldiers went up in the morning before dawn, during the day additional 500 soldiers came out from underneath the earth.

Ukrainian army command was so confused, it took them hours to react. Many Ukrainian soldiers left their positions and ran, while the Russian soldiers took the suburbs and industrial zone in Sudzha.

As Aid a commander from Akhmat special forces said: “Pop out, disperse, take a settlement and man a 360 circular defense. Want to try?”

The soldiers were able then to facilitate the liberation of dozens of settlements in Kursk region. They came back and give interviews, as you can see.

The complexity is indeed crazy and that operation is historic. If Ukraine had done that, it would be in news for the next 6 months at least.