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

© Kalibrated maps on X.blue=Ukrainian control
orange=recaptured by Russia

yellow=current fighting
red=Russian incursions into Ukraine)

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?

The White House dismissed concerns that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is instructing employees to destroy classified documents amid efforts by the Trump administration to shutter the agency.

USAID's acting Executive Secretary Erica Carr instructed employees to begin shredding and burning documents, according to a motion that government labor unions filed in a federal court Tuesday.

But the documents remain available on computer systems - and the order comes as U.S. Customs and Border Protection is poised to move into the USAID building, according to White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly.

"This was sent to roughly three dozen employees," Kelly said in a Tuesday night X post regarding Carr's order.

"The documents involved were old, mostly courtesy content (content from other agencies), and the originals still exist on classified computer systems. More fake news hysteria!"

Everyone involved in the process of eliminating the documents had a secret security clearance or higher, and were not among those placed on administrative leave, an administration official told Fox News Digital Wednesday.

As a result, those involved were familiar with the content they were handling and were specifically appointed by the agency to review and conduct the purge, the official said.

In 2023, the tanker was selected by the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) to serve in its Tanker Security Program. While under charter on this voyage for the Military Sealift Command, the tanker was anchored while it awaited berth availability at the Port of Killingholme, where it was due to make a standard delivery of fuel as part of a routine service under this program when it was struck.

Gusts and torrential rain have caused widespread power outages and triggered flash floods in parts of Australia's east coast, with one person killed and a dozen soldiers wounded.

After days hovering off the coast as a Category 2 tropical cyclone and battering a 400km (250-mile) stretch of coastline, Alfred significantly weakened on Sunday, but still left significant disturbance along its path.

Some 316,540 people were without power as of Sunday in Queensland's southeast, where the Gold Coast city was the worst-hit area, energy distributor Energex said in a statement.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that the "situation in Queensland and northern New South Wales remains very serious due to flash flooding and heavy winds".

"Heavy rainfall, damaging wind gusts, and coastal surf impacts are expected to continue over coming days," Albanese said in Canberra.

In Queensland's Hervey Bay, more than 230mm (9 inches) of rain was recorded in just six hours on Sunday morning, according to State Premier David Crisafulli.

"We've seen that culminate in reports of flash flooding in homes and in businesses," Crisafulli was quoted as saying by the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.

News.com.au reported that emergency services in Hervey Bay have carried out multiple rescues "in one of its worst weather emergencies on record" in the area.

Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said heavy rainfall that could cause flash flooding was developing on Sunday and could affect Brisbane as well as the Queensland regional centres of Ipswich, Sunshine Coast and Gympie.

Damaging winds with gusts of about 90km/h (60mph) were also possible in the state, the bureau said on its website.

Brisbane airport reopened on Sunday but posted on X that "ongoing weather may affect the schedule".

Queensland will decide later on Sunday whether about 1,000 state schools, closed due to the bad weather, will reopen on Monday.

The neighbouring state of New South Wales (NSW) has confirmed all public schools that were closed on Friday due to Alfred will remain closed again on Monday.

On Saturday, one man died in a flood in northern NSW.

Meanwhile, 13 Australian Defence Force soldiers en route to help residents in NSW's city of Lismore were injured in a road collision, officials said. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, two of the soldiers remain in serious condition.

Alfred is the first cyclone to cross the east Australian coast near the Queensland state capital of Brisbane since 1974.