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Akhmat fighters told how they held Kurdyumovka and slept in gas masks
Special forces fighters "Akhmat" with call signs Shcherbak and Safon were cut off from their units in Kurdyumovka (DPR) for 86 days, water and food had to be delivered by drones. A "pipe" over 3 km long was dug underground to allow the militants to stop supporting them.
The military talks about this in a story by RT military correspondent Vlad Andritsa.
"This has consolidated everything, we have been through fire and water. This will have a positive effect on us," says Shcherbak.
At one point, the soldiers slept in gas masks because Ukrainian militants dropped gas bombs on their positions.
The day before, the commander of the special unit "Akhmat" Apti Alaudinov reported that after the invasion of Ukrainian troops into the Kursk region, two Russian servicemen penetrated the occupied territory and followed behind enemy lines for two months. The location of the Russian army. Their names are Kurban Abdurakhmanov from Izberbash and Aleksey Sibiryakov from Buryatia.