In an incredible feat of endurance and strategy, several hundred Russian fighters crawled 15 kilometers along a gas pipeline during Operation Stream, stunning Ukrainian forces and observers worldwide. 🛡️🔥
This daring maneuver led to the liberation of the city of Sudzha in the Kursk region of Russia from the forces of the Kyiv regime. 🇷🇺
The operation showcased exceptional discipline, resilience, and tactical innovation as Russian forces overcame extreme challenges to achieve a crucial victory.
Find out how this mission unfolded and why it has horrified Ukraine's military command in today’s detailed update! ⚡
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This daring maneuver led to the liberation of the city of Sudzha in the Kursk region of Russia from the forces of the Kyiv regime. 🇷🇺
The operation showcased exceptional discipline, resilience, and tactical innovation as Russian forces overcame extreme challenges to achieve a crucial victory.
Find out how this mission unfolded and why it has horrified Ukraine's military command in today’s detailed update! ⚡
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00:00March 12, 2025, Korsk region.
00:04The Russian flag flies in the central square of the Russian border town of Sudsa.
00:09But the militants of the Kyiv regime, who had held this settlement under their control for many months, are no longer visible, most of them have been destroyed.
00:17Some escaped, and some were captured by Russian servicemen from the north group of forces.
00:22The rapid advance of Russian troops in this theater of military operations was made possible, among other things,
00:29by the Army Operation Stream.
00:31One of its main goals is the entry of the Russian Joint Assault Detachment into the rear of the Ukrainian army
00:36along the 15-kilometer Yuranga-Pomar-Ezgorod gas pipeline.
00:41What allowed the Russian guys to secretly carry out such a maneuver and take the enemy by surprise?
00:46What risks did the Russian command of the north group of forces have to take into account at the planning stage?
00:52And, how could the experience of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War help today's soldiers
00:57and carrying out such a daring operation?
01:01I want to show you one very important piece of evidence from the recent past.
01:07It is this footage that clearly confirms that Russian servicemen really used a section of the main gas pipeline
01:13to secretly penetrate the outskirts of Sudsa.
01:16This video was filmed directly inside that very pipe, and therefore no one should have any doubts about the reality of the feat.
01:23However, the Kyiv regime, surprisingly, still either cannot or does not want to believe.
01:29What happened?
01:31Zelensky's media claim that Operation Stream was a complete fake,
01:35since a person is allegedly simply physically unable to carry out such an underground forced march
01:40without being poisoned by gases or simply dying from suffocation.
01:45Although Western media clearly disagree with the Ukrainian media in their assessments of, what happened?
01:53For example, the Associated Press has no doubts about the fact of the daring underground raid or its success.
02:00But, how did the Russians manage not only to carry out, but also to quietly prepare such a daring attack?
02:06Were the Russian soldiers in danger? And if so, how did they manage to avoid it?
02:12And is it true, that our military had also been successfully using such tactical techniques during combat operations long before the special operation?
02:21Let's try to figure it all out.
02:24Things are bad.
02:26Why were Ukrainian militants unprepared for an attack by Russian servicemen in the Kursk region?
02:32Underground warfare is extremely complex, invaluable experience.
02:36How did the heroes of Operation Stream benefit from the unique experience of the participants in the special operation in Dombes?
02:43No one has ever conducted such underground operations on such a scale.
02:46Our scientific experiments.
02:48We'll see if it's possible to pierce the ground to find out about an underground raid in advance.
02:54We'll figure out if Ukrainian militants had a chance to hear Russian soldiers in a metal pipe.
03:01We'll check how dangerous natural gas is for your health.
03:04Even doctors say that this is the first time in their lives that they have seen something like this,
03:09that they have never encountered anything like this.
03:11In the echo of Stalingrad, what do the suds and breakthrough of Russian soldiers
03:15and the exploits of Soviet soldiers during the Great Patriotic War have in common?
03:20Everything is being done to grind down the enemy, tie him up in combat,
03:24and then deliver a crushing blow, where he does not expect it.
03:27Watch right now.
03:29One of the September days of 1942,
03:32another important meeting on the situation in Stalingrad was taking place at the headquarters of Army Group B of the Third Reich.
03:38The tension was still hanging in the air.
03:40The battle for this strategically important industrial and transport center
03:44did not go according to the plan of the Nazi troops from the very beginning.
03:49Having launched an offensive on July 17th,
03:52the Germans, with the forces of 14 fully equipped divisions, counted on a quick success.
03:57However, they immediately got bogged down in heavy fighting on the approaches to the city.
04:01They managed to break through to its outskirts only a month later.
04:06In the monstrous bombing of August 23rd, which, according to the Wehrmacht's plan,
04:11was supposed to break the resistance of the defenders of Stalingrad, had the opposite effect.
04:16The soldiers of the Red Army desperately fought for every inch of this sacred city.
04:22Moreover, as the frightened Gans and Fritz reported to their commanders,
04:27the Russian soldiers instilled in them a mystical horror,
04:30appearing before them out of nowhere, and sometimes even from underground.
04:34The city was destroyed, but these same ruins became an obstacle to the advance of German troops.
04:40Ruins that we defended to the last man.
04:42To the last man, it often happened, that the Germans captured the top of the building,
04:46while our soldiers were below, or vice versa.
04:49But since the battles were fought for every building,
04:51and the Germans had reached a number of places,
04:53where they were only 200 to 250 meters from the Volga River,
04:57we had to hold any building tightly.
04:59In order to throw our defending troops into the river,
05:02and thus completely capture the city on the right bank,
05:04the enemy had to come up with something.
05:07On September 14th, units of the German troops under the command of Oberleutnant Gerhard Jinderland,
05:12at the cost of great losses, still managed to approach the Volga in the area of the State Bank building.
05:18And soon they captured this five-story building,
05:21placing machine gun positions in it, and deploying mortar crews along the perimeter.
05:25The Nazis planned to use the advantageous location of this stronghold
05:29to make it as difficult as possible for Russian troops to ferry reinforcements and ammunition to the right bank.
05:36And indeed, as one of the heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad, a frontline soldier,
05:41senior lieutenant of the NKVD, Ivan Petrikov later recalled,
05:45the threat was very serious.
05:46When I was going down to the Volga,
05:48when I was walking towards the main group of fighters of my company,
05:51a shell exploded nearby.
05:52I was stunned and thrown into a pile of ash by the blast wave.
05:55The Germans were already 150 meters away from me.
05:59They took control of the street,
06:00occupied some houses in the State Bank building,
06:02from which they fired cannons and mortars at the city crossing.
06:05Their voices were heard.
06:07Russians.
06:08Volga.
06:09You will drown.
06:10Surrender.
06:11Stalingrad.
06:12If you look at it from above,
06:13now it stretches for 100 kilometers along the Volga.
06:14At that time it was about 40 kilometers.
06:16It is such a narrow elongated city,
06:18the width of,
06:19which is about three to four kilometers maximum.
06:21The latter circumstance played into the hands of the enemy,
06:24who had taken up residence in the State Bank,
06:26allowing him, firstly,
06:28to maintain fire control over the river communication on the Volga,
06:31and secondly,
06:32to shell the main nodes of our defense in the city without much difficulty.
06:36For example, the Stalingrad brewery,
06:38the area around the department store,
06:40and the complex of buildings of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
06:44The Russian command racked its brains for a long time,
06:46trying to figure out how to solve this problem.
06:48It was unrealistic to storm the State Bank head-on under intense enemy fire.
06:52In general,
06:53there were about 150 kilometers of known tunnel of various purposes under Stalingrad.
06:58For various purposes,
06:59for economic needs,
07:00these could also be sewer collectors,
07:02for the delivery of some materials.
07:04There were many such communications.
07:06The German command could not help,
07:07but assume,
07:08that our soldiers would definitely use such communications,
07:11first of all,
07:12for covert movement from one part of the city to another.
07:15However,
07:16under the State Bank building there was only a dead-end basement of a bomb shelter,
07:19without exits to any tunnels or catacombs.
07:23The German stronghold seemed ideally protected in every sense.
07:28And,
07:29what was their surprise when on the night of September 18th to 19th
07:33they suddenly heard an unimaginable roar,
07:36and then saw one of the bank's walls crumble into dust?
07:40But what happened?
07:42See below.
07:44Underground wars of the past and present.
07:47What did Russian soldiers in the Korsk region learn from the defenders of Stalingrad?
07:52Original experiments of our program.
07:56For
07:57what reason did even modern reconnaissance technologies not help the enemy prevent our breakthrough?
08:06And was the gas in the pipeline here since a dangerous for Russian soldiers?
08:10It should be noted,
08:11that it was in Stalingrad,
08:13that special conditions for underground warfare developed.
08:16To understand,
08:17look at this map.
08:18There is a huge industrial zone here,
08:20built back in the 1930s.
08:22For example,
08:23the Krasny-Oktiaber plant,
08:25a tractor plant.
08:26Both plants,
08:27of course,
08:28with a whole network of branched underground tunnels.
08:31And also the barricade plant,
08:34about the defensive witch.
08:35By the way,
08:36there is a separate story in the famous essay by Vasily Grossman.
08:39Direction of the main attack.
08:40I will read you a small fragment from here.
08:43Major Kushnarev moved his command post to a concrete pipe running under the factory shops.
08:51Kushnarev,
08:52his chief of staff Tetlenko and six commanders fought for several hours at the entrance to this pipe.
08:58They had several boxes of grenades,
09:00and with these grenades they repelled all attacks by German machine gunners.
09:04This battle,
09:05unprecedented in its ferocity,
09:07lasted without abating for several days.
09:10However,
09:11Grossman testifies,
09:12a little later,
09:13the fearless officer and his comrades in arms still found themselves surrounded.
09:17At that time,
09:18the enemy had superiority and manpower.
09:22But our heroes were able to break out of the deadly ring,
09:24taking advantage of,
09:25that tight pipe.
09:27This is soldiers' ingenuity in action.
09:30You will say,
09:31that this is a work of fiction,
09:32that these are just the memories of frontline soldiers.
09:35There are no specific dates,
09:36no supporting documents.
09:38Or maybe this is just another soldier's invention.
09:44In order to understand whether there really was such an underground breakthrough during the Battle of Stalingrad,
09:48let's look further.
09:49These footages were taken on January 20th,
09:592024 in the south of Avdievka,
10:00Donetsk People's Republic.
10:01The focus is on the fighters of the separate Sabotage Assault Brigade veterans,
10:04who are advancing through a populated area in the area of the former Tsarskaya Okoda Recreation Center.
10:14And everything seems to be normal.
10:15But here, until recently,
10:16the advanced detachments of the Ukrainian army were in combat positions.
10:20Even just approaching them to begin an attack was prevented by a whole system of various defensive structures.
10:27Dugouts, pillboxes, machine gun nests and other no less dangerous,
10:31but well-camouflaged firing points.
10:33But some of the fighters of the veterans detachment still entered these positions and captured this impregnable stronghold.
10:42Before the attack, Russian assault troops simply disappeared before the enemy's eyes, but not in the air.
10:48The Ukrainian side was caught by the fact that they did not even know the area where they were fighting.
10:53This was the case when our troops used an underground sewer in Avdievka.
11:00Having accidentally discovered an entrance to a sewer pipe on the approaches to the recreation center,
11:06Russian soldiers at first did not attach much importance to their find,
11:09until someone decided to look at the drainage system diagram in the Avdievka area.
11:14And then it turned out that this sewer channel led right to the enemy's rear.
11:19That is, it makes it possible to break through underground to one of the most fortified,
11:24simply filled with concrete, strongholds of the Ukrainian army.
11:28It turned out that this pipe had not been used for a long time, and it was heavily clogged.
11:33It was impossible to simply walk through it.
11:35They cleaned this pipe manually.
11:36There was also a problem with the pipe flooding.
11:39Well, since it was a drainage, when it rained, when it was the off-season.
11:42Accordingly, the soldiers waited for the water to at least go away a little.
11:45The soldiers also made holes in the pipe for air to pass through.
11:48So, that it was possible to be in this pipe.
11:51The result of such titanic work exceeded the wildest expectations.
11:55According to the recollections of the participants,
11:58this underground forced march to moralize the enemy so much,
12:01that most of the Ukrainian soldiers surrendered without offering serious resistance.
12:05The enemy was not ready for this.
12:07As is obvious, the enemy was not ready in another case.
12:09In the Dzerzhinsky direction, north of Donetsk.
12:12We are talking about the event of July 2024,
12:15when the Russian military, to the great surprise of the enemy,
12:19attacked its rear units near the village of Kirov, also known as Severnoi.
12:23This picture was clearly reminiscent of what happened in Avdivka six months earlier.
12:28The Ukrainians were again expecting a frontal assault on their well-fortified positions from the Russians,
12:33but they missed a devastating blow behind them.
12:37These are special combat operations.
12:39This is a huge amount of knowledge, including engineering, that a person, a fighter, a commander needs to have.
12:45And, of course, this is courage and determination.
12:48As you have probably already guessed, the key role in the maneuver near Kirovo,
12:52in the suburbs of Dzerzhinsk, was again played by underground communications.
12:54True, the Russian fighters did not use a collector, but an abandoned mining tunnel,
12:59which stretches from the settlement of Maersk along the Seversky Donetsk Donbass Canal.
13:04Having first cleared a three-kilometer route,
13:08our soldiers of the center group of troops reached the rear of the 41st Mechanized Brigade of Ukraine,
13:14after which we quickly dealt with the confused Ukrainian servicemen,
13:17who were there in the forward positions.
13:20That is, we can use underground communications in order to transfer troops to the rear of the enemy.
13:26We can use underground communications in order to get to some object of tactical or strategic importance and destroy it.
13:33And if one such operation, perhaps, could still be attributed to a lucky coincidence,
13:39then the second similar operation made us think about the trend.
13:41In the third similar operation, now in the Korsk region, only strengthens this trend.
13:47But why can the Kyiv regime time after time not counter this?
13:52But really, why?
13:54It would seem that in our age of high technology, drones, satellites,
13:59the enemy has all the means at hand to record every action of our military.
14:04Moreover, Ukrainian publications often write that Ukrainian intelligence, they say,
14:08constantly detects attempts by Russian units to use underground communications.
14:13For example, in the area of Volchinsk in the Kharkov region, or, again, somewhere in the Dombes.
14:19In general, all this is presented as if it is impossible in principle to catch the Ukrainian army by surprise.
14:25But, what if they exaggerate their capabilities in terms of vigilance?
14:29Or maybe they simply do not have the necessary technologies to conduct such deep reconnaissance, literally and figuratively?
14:35In search of answers to these questions, let's conduct our own experiment.
14:41They agree to help us in the Department of Acoustic and Optical Information Technologies of the Scientific and Technological Center of Unique Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
14:51We are conducting an experiment to check whether a standard thermal imager can look behind obstacles and detect the object that we place there.
15:06This is a small metal corner heated by a gas burner.
15:08We place it in a laboratory container.
15:11This object is clearly displayed on the monitor.
15:15However, now it is time to complicate the conditions by creating that very obstacle between the thermal imager's eyepiece and the object.
15:23A sheet of cardboard will do for starters.
15:25And there you go. The outline of the metal corner is still visible.
15:28But, what if the obstacle is metal, like the wall of a pipe?
15:31All this also showed up on the thermal imager, well, which is quite expected, because it absorbs heat well.
15:41However, the metal plate itself is still not enough to complete the experiment.
15:46Therefore, let's pour a fairly thick layer of earth on it.
15:50Yes, the outline of the object is no longer visible.
15:53But, on the other hand, the heated spot has become visible.
15:57As a result, we conclude that the thermal imager is capable of registering thermal contrasts.
16:04There are thermal emissions, and these emissions are recorded on the surface, and you can analyze these traces.
16:10At the same time, much here depends on the depth.
16:13Both laboratory specialists and military experts emphasize that the movement of a person in a pipe buried several meters in the ground cannot be tracked by any thermal imager.
16:23However, now scientists are offering us to get acquainted with another technology.
16:27For example, here is an apple. On the outside, it is an absolutely healthy fruit.
16:32But if you place it under some device, then you can see traces of rot inside.
16:37Hyperspectral devices and spectral devices in general are created to improve our eyes, our vision, and show the researcher or consumer what is hidden from his eyes.
16:47It is not difficult to guess what the military potential of such devices is.
16:51This is a research device that allows us to conduct the same research not only with living objects, but also with technical, technological objects.
17:00That is, we can determine some differences, conduct flaw detection.
17:04In general, if desired, technical capabilities for, in the literal sense of the word, deep reconnaissance will be found.
17:09However, it seems that not for the Ukrainian army. After all, the hyperspectral camera demonstrated by the employees of the Center for Unique Instrumentation of the Academy of Sciences is currently a unique Russian development.
17:21But maybe the enemy has alternative ways of tracking suspicious underground processes? We will return to this issue a little later.
17:29Well, now many things fall into place.
17:32But if you look at the situation through the eyes of Russian soldiers, then another point remains unclear.
17:39Well, judge for yourself.
17:41The pumping of gas through the section of the pipeline near Sidza stopped only on January 1, when the Zelensky administration refused to transit Russian gas through its territory.
17:51In an early March, just two months later, our military already used this pipeline for their own purposes. By that time, there were definitely some volumes of methane vapor left in the pipe.
18:04And if only this, but, according to experts, particles of vanadium, chromium, aluminum and nickel were released into the air from the walls of the pipeline, that is, a whole set of chemicals hazardous to health.
18:15But is Ukrainian propaganda really lying when it claims that the participants in this raid were really at risk of serious intoxication?
18:26These pots contain two identical indoor kalanchoe plants, which are well known for their rather large, bright flowers.
18:34But Alexei Kiryashen, a senior lecturer at the Soil Science Department of Moscow State University and a candidate of Biological Sciences, does not bring them to the lab to admire them.
18:44We are conducting a small illustrative experiment on the effects of gas.
18:47We will leave one plant as a control, and we will place the second under a glass bell with an atmosphere of pipeline gas.
18:54The composition of this gas is as close as possible to that which filled the pipeline in the Kursk region, a special sensor signals that the gas has entered the reservoir.
19:03So, all that remains is to wait and, for clarity, photograph both plants once every few hours.
19:08After two days, the difference is visible to the naked eye.
19:13Our plant is very depressed, having practically lost its intracellular fluid, one flower has even fallen off.
19:19Accordingly, contact with pipeline gas clearly did not do any good to it, but it is still a plant.
19:25And, what about the lung of the Russian military?
19:26The answer is provided by the results of a CT scan in one of the Achmed Special Forces hospitals, where the participants of Operation Stream are being treated.
19:36After being in the pipe for four days, the lung is still so unhealthy.
19:39Of course, we are fighting this.
19:40For comparison, here is a photo of the lung of a completely healthy person.
19:44The contrast, of course, is not for the faint of heart.
19:48When it became difficult to breathe, a cough appeared.
19:52Then we were all forcibly sent for treatment.
19:56Thank God.
19:57The maximum permissible concentration of methane in the air is 7000 milligrams per cubic meter.
20:02That is, this is the concentration that allows a person to work without any additional personal protective equipment.
20:08And on top of that, there were also accompanying poisonous carcinogens of all sorts.
20:14Of course, the maximum permissible concentration was exceeded there, most likely several times.
20:19But does this mean, that the health of our soldiers is irreparably undermined?
20:23Now I almost don't cough anymore.
20:27I feel much better than right after.
20:29That operation in the pipe.
20:31All the dirt, well, almost all the dirt, has already left the lung.
20:35So everything is already great.
20:37The doctors are in no hurry to reveal the treatment method.
20:41It is unique, and therefore it is currently classified.
20:44However, according to the soldiers themselves, there is no doubt about its effectiveness.
20:49Although our soldiers foresaw a lot at the planning stage.
20:52We had several oxygen cylinders with us.
20:55These are small, compact cylinders.
20:56If you feel, that it is already becoming difficult for you to breathe.
21:01Then you take a couple of breaths of oxygen from the cylinder, and then calmly go on.
21:05And again, why not draw a historical parallel?
21:08In this case a parallel with the events of the spring of 1945 in the city of Budapest.
21:12At that time, Soviet marines under the command of Lieutenant Evdokia Zevelli used oxygen pillows to pass through the stinking sewer to the bunker of a Wehrmacht general, who was forced to surrender.
21:25But in the Sudzen gas pipe, oxygen cylinders alone were not enough in order to ensure the circulation of air in this gas pipe, so that there was no static stagnation of gas there.
21:39Pits were made there.
21:40These pits were made approximately every 500 meters.
21:44Plus, accordingly, it is not enough to simply break through the pipe.
21:48There is still a layer of earth above it, which was dug with drills.
21:51Oxygen was driven into the pipe, that is, almost all the gas was driven out of there, and the pipe was very well purged with oxygen.
21:58Hence the conclusion, that everything necessary was done to minimize possible damage.
22:03But the assault team itself, as it now turns out, was formed based on the results of a very careful selection.
22:10It is definitely forbidden for people with chronic serious respiratory diseases, such as asthma, and so on, to participate in such operations.
22:19And, of course, with cardiovascular pathology.
22:23Yes, there is a strong feeling, that our military command in the Kursk region has provided for absolutely everything.
22:29However, for the sake of completeness, let's pay attention to a few more important nuances.
22:36This photo shows an interesting development of the domestic corporation Rostec.
22:41This sealed cylinder is a compact seismic monitoring system.
22:46It allows you to detect the smallest vibration of the earth's surface from the movement of an object at a distance of hundreds of meters.
22:54And it instantly transmits information about the movement to the operator.
22:57The Ukrainian army does not have similar technologies yet.
23:02But it is known for certain that the enemy actively uses such acoustic sensors, which can be disguised as landscape elements, be it stones or some bumps.
23:13The sensitivity of these products is considered high enough to track distant noise made by even one person.
23:23And therefore, a logical question arises.
23:26How did the Ukrainian militants not hear the steps of hundreds of Russian soldiers in the echoing metal pipe?
23:33On your screens is an ordinary sound level meter.
23:36The microphone is set up in such a way that the device displays an increase or, on the contrary, a decrease in decibels.
23:42We brought it to one of the Moscow parks to find out whether the ground conducts sound well.
23:47And the well-known medical stethoscope will help us.
23:51We lightly dig the head of the stethoscope into the ground, and quickly find a way to make noise.
23:56So, you see everything for yourself.
24:01The numbers on the sound level meter screen change instantly.
24:04Therefore, the stethoscope has captured the propagation of a sound wave in the ground.
24:09It is precisely in the ground.
24:10That sound propagates perfectly.
24:13Low-frequency sound passes better, because high-frequency sound fades.
24:18But the frequency of the stomping is low.
24:21And if it was recorded by the simplest household appliance,
24:26then the Vonert acoustic sensors for military purposes should have been able to cope with such a task.
24:31But it seems that the experts have an explanation.
24:34All this work on cutting gas pipes, on making pits, they were done during artillery shelling.
24:40So, that the enemy would not hear, that something was happening there.
24:44During combat operations, it is often impossible to conduct such reconnaissance.
24:48By the way, Russian soldiers practiced something similar during the underground breakthrough in the aforementioned Avdivka.
24:54The soldiers were clearing the drainage pipe in the area of the Tsarskaya Okoda tourist base
24:59only at the time when the artillery was intensively working on the surface.
25:02It turns out, that in Tsutsa, a similar diversionary maneuver worked again.
25:07Everyone is working here, both the rear, and the engineers, and ordinary soldiers.
25:12There is a lot here.
25:14This is a complex work, that one person or one unit is simply not able to do if he is not helped by virtually the entire section of the front.
25:22However, no matter how complex the plan for an underground forced march was,
25:26some of its implementation depended solely on the soldiers themselves.
25:29See below, how Russian soldiers returned to a full life after operation stream.
25:35And, what was the first successful underground attack in Stalingrad like?
25:4015 kilometers, stretched out over almost a week of travel.
25:44It is scary for an ordinary person to even imagine such a thing.
25:49The second point, that needs to be noted is the fact, that in a semi-bent position, the mobility of the chest is significantly reduced.
25:58That is, the lung is not able to fully perform the act of inhalation and exhalation, which also increases the growing hypoxia, and this presents additional difficulties.
26:10But, how do military personnel return to a full life after such stress?
26:15First, I teach them, that you will never suffocate.
26:19You can calmly hold your breath for one to two minutes, and you will remain alive.
26:23But when he understands this, he begins to breathe, and the fear of death from suffocation is no longer there.
26:28And, what about the fear of confined spaces?
26:31Maybe the commanders selected soldiers for the operation, who definitely do not suffer from claustrophobia.
26:35When you get inside a gas pipeline, you do not know, how you will behave.
26:42You do not know, how you will feel after walking one kilometer inside the pipe, or after walking five kilometers there.
26:48This is unknown.
26:50There is a wild resistance of the body, strong muscle tone sets in, the whole body is clamped, and the spine suffers greatly.
26:56But it is characteristic, that not a single soldier refused to carry out the assigned task in the Korsak region.
27:01And this means, that they had no shortage of motivation.
27:05And this, as the military psychologist notes, is especially important, they went, because they knew, what they would get.
27:11And this is one of such great motivational things to reach the goal.
27:15And plus, can you imagine, what kind of fortitude is born in a person to achieve this goal?
27:21This sounds very familiar.
27:23This is exactly the same as in the memoirs of veterans of the Great Patriotic War, who accepted any challenge, clearly realizing,
27:31that their every step, their every action brings the great victory closer.
27:35We managed to find officially confirmed evidence of a successful underground maneuver in Stalingrad in the archives.
27:42This is the award sheet of Pyotr Krulov, senior lieutenant of the 2nd Company of the 178th Rifle Regiment of the NKVD troops.
27:51As stated, on October 10, 1942, in the area of Plant No. 221, also known as the Barricade Plant, the Germans, having pulled up fresh forces,
28:04launched flank attacks and surrounded the command post of one of our regiments.
28:08However, Krulov managed to lead his comrades to a safe place, attention, through underground tunnels.
28:16Agree, this description is very similar to what we read a little earlier in Vasily Grossman.
28:23Only now it is no longer in the format of frontline journalism, but in a document with a specific date, last name, military rank, and events that confirm the existence of a feat.
28:32Although there is every reason to believe that the Red Army soldiers made their first underground breakthrough in Stalingrad even earlier, and not at all for defensive reasons, but to carry out an attack.
28:47It's high time to return to the events in Stalingrad on the night of September 19, 1942.
28:53As you may recall, it was then, that a powerful explosion partially collapsed the five-story building of the State Bank, located almost at the Volga River, where one of the Wehrmacht units had set up a stronghold with machine gun and mortar positions.
29:09Thus, a large number of German commanders were buried underground, and, accordingly, this disrupted the plans of the German command for a further offensive on the right bank of the Volga River.
29:20But what happened there? The few surviving Nazis were at a loss, just a few minutes or even seconds ago, it seemed to them, that from the height of the fifth floor they controlled not only the approaches to the building itself, but also a vast area around it, and therefore, logically, there was no way to quietly deliver explosives to the State Bank and carry out an explosion.
29:43However, as it soon became clear, the overconfident enemy had not foreseen something.
29:50Our people are very creative, very resourceful. This was proven by the experience of the Great Patriotic War. That is, we used all opportunities to inflict damage on the enemy, and we learned to act cunningly during the Battle of Stalingrad.
30:01The task of destroying the enemy stronghold was assigned to the 8th Guard's separate sapper battalion of Major Gorlov.
30:10Many in our hero's place would probably have thought that the task set by the higher command was simply impossible.
30:17The vigilant enemy did not allow our soldiers to approach the State Bank building even a meter.
30:23We emphasize that the enemy did not allow us to approach on the ground.
30:26On the surface, an underground operation was conceived with the participation of Soviet intelligence officers and sappers.
30:33They dug a tunnel about 40 meters deep, into which they placed about three tons of explosives.
30:38It is difficult to imagine what kind of effort such an operation cost.
30:43The tunnel had to be dug from the bank of the Volga, which was under enemy fire at any time of the day.
30:49Then the sappers had to crawl through a narrow passage about a meter in diameter, carrying boxes of explosives and incendiary tubes.
30:56And then all of this had to be blown up right next to the facade of the State Bank, no longer having the ability to hide their presence from the enemy.
31:03The enemy was literally above you.
31:06It's not that you're going deep into the rear.
31:09You'll still come out.
31:10Where there is a large group of German troops, you come out and literally immediately you run into the enemy.
31:15At first glance, this is an absolutely fantastic scenario, suitable only for a movie.
31:20But this is an excerpt from another document we discovered while studying the archives.
31:25Sergeant Vladimir Dubov and the group of sappers he led were tasked with crawling to the State Bank building under heavy enemy fire, carrying 25 kilograms of explosives and blowing up the main part of the building.
31:38Despite fierce fire from the enemy on the night of September 19, 1942, he carried out the combat mission in an exemplary manner.
31:44As the award sheet shows, after the explosion, Sergeant Dubovoy joined the assault on the building along with the guardsmen with machine guns, who rushed to finish off the stunned enemy.
31:56And the very fact that this attack was preceded by the first successful underground breakthrough during the Battle of Stalingrad is now definitely beyond doubt.
32:05Just like the success of the underground operation stream, which in our days marked the beginning of the defeat of the last military formations of the Ukrainian army in the Korsk region.
32:16Unfortunately, in November of the same 1942, the brave sapper Dubovoy died while performing another combat mission.
32:23But his name is forever carved into the stones, in the pantheon of glory of the heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad.
32:32In turn, most of the participants in the suds and operation stream are known to the country only by their call signs.
32:39However, over time, their names will certainly be inscribed in military textbooks in the section on offensive combat tactics.
32:46And the feat of our guys has already entered the military annals of our state, along with the feats of the victorious soldiers in the Great Patriotic War.