Ukrainian forces have controlled a small portion of the Kursk region since launching a surprise offensive last summer.

Ukraine’s military and Russian war bloggers say Russian special forces walked inside of a gas pipeline to strike Ukrainian units from the rear in the Kursk region

Pro-Russian war blogger Two Majors said a major battle was under way for Sudzha and that Russian forces had surprised Ukrainian soldiers by entering the area via a gas pipeline.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia carried out more than 2,100 aerial attacks on Ukraine over the past week. In a social media post, Zelensky reported that Russian forces deployed 1,200 guided aerial bombs,

Russia has launched hundreds of attacks on Ukraine over the past week, using various types of weapons. The occupiers have fired more than a thousand bombs and hundreds of drones, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Telegram.

Ukraine said Sunday that Russia launched over one hundred drones overnight, targeting the capital and several regions at a crucial point in the war as Washington has frozen aid supplies. The wave of attacks followed deadly strikes Friday and Saturday in eastern and northeastern Ukraine that killed at least 14 people.