The Almost Unbelievable Details Of The Great Gas Pipeline Caper Of 2025

Authored by Terry Cowan via Substack

This is the most astounding thing I have heard of in a long, long time. It almost is too fantastical to believe. If it happened here in the US or West, it would be all over the front pages and on every newscast. Agents would be angling for the movie rights.

What am I talking about? Briefly put, 800 Russian special ops marched 12 km. (7.2 miles!) through an abandoned gas pipeline (in some portions crawled apparently), came out the other side, and in conjunction with other Russian troops, closed the trap door on Zelensky’s Kursk misadventure.

A bit of context: last year the EU closed the door on purchasing cheap Russian gas, which flowed out of Russia underneath Ukraine and into Europe. Zelensky obligingly cut it off on his end. No matter that you ruin your economies and your citizens don’t have enough heat in the winter by buying the much more expensive LNG from the U.S. (or ironically, the gas that Russia sells to India who sells to the U.S. who sells, with 2 markups, to Europe.)

That is a small price to pay, I suppose, for all the virtue you can signal by not purchasing that nasty Russian gas directly. Anyway, there remained a enormous gas pipeline, now completely empty, and the Russians saw an opportunity.

How did they do it? I get much of my real news from Telegram channels. This is how one explained the plan:

1) The gas pressure pumps were stopped and the gas was sucked out

2) Oxygen was pumped into the pipeline

3) Diggers dug out rooms for assembly and toilets were installed

4) Water, food and ammunition was brought in to these assembly rooms

5) 800 soldiers went through the pipe to the assembly rooms

6) The soldiers waited 4 days in the assembly rooms and in the pipe close to the exit

7) When the signal was given, they ran out and went into the industry zone of Sudzha

8) The Ukrainian army was surprised to see such a huge force in their rear, they began to panic and became disorganized

9) Russians liberated many settlements in Kursk region, due to this

Below: blue=Ukrainian control, orange=recaptured by Russia, yellow=current fighting, red=Russian incursions into Ukraine), via Kalibrated maps on X.

Geopolitical commenters Alexander Mercouris and Alex Chistoforou have much more details describing how it unfolded here.

My question to the diehard pro-war deadenders, is this: how exactly do you plan to prevail over a country whose soldiers would do THIS?

Remarkable footage as the operation was in progress via Russian state sources:

Reports of the remarkable operation in the gas pipeline near Kursk.
800 Russian soldiers crawled 15 km through the pipeline, emerging in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Sudzha. pic.twitter.com/EGOMFBhque

— Richard (@ricwe123) March 11, 2025

The only option that remains is to stop shooting, get to the negotiating table as quickly as possible. It won’t be as good a deal as you could have received even last summer, and it will be magnitudes worse that the deal both sides had agreed to in March 2022 ante the Clown (Boris Johnson.)

Russian soldiers in the Kursk gas pipeline waiting for the order to go above ground and begin the attack pic.twitter.com/XF6l2Ycv2r

— Preston Stewart (@prestonstew_) March 12, 2025

But it is time to take a deep breath, admit failure, and look at the world the way it really is.