This is the extraordinary moment a Russian soldier was blown up after being chased around his tank by an Ukrainian drone.
FPV drone footage shows the soldier ducking for cover as he sees the tiny remote control craft approach his vehicle.
Sheltering under the barrel of the tank’s turret, he decides to make a break for it as the drone zeroes in.
He’s then chased around the outside of his vehicle as the drone nimbly corrects its path to stay on the soldier’s tail.
After running all the way around the vehicle, the unnamed vehicle finally catches up to him as he makes a sharp turn.
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A massive explosion is seen as the drone collides with him, and as the smoke recedes, the soldier appears still on the ground having sustained gruesome damage in the blast.
One user described the incident as looking like a “game of tag”, as the drone maintained its pursuit.
Russia is yet to comment on the video, and it hasn’t been verified.
It’s not known where the strike took place, but it appears to have carried out by a drone on the Ukrainian battlefront.
It comes after President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged to build at least a million drones this year, as the unnamed vehicles play an increasingly pivotal role in the conflict.
War has raged in the country since Russian leader Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The Ukrainian army has held back Moscow’s army for almost two years, confounding Russian expectations that Kyiv would swiftly fall.
Meanwhile, Russia said Ukrainian shelling in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk on Sunday killed 27 people and injured 25.
The city’s Russia-backed Mayor reported that Ukrainian forces bombarded a busy area of the eastern city where a market and shops were located.
The Russian foreign ministry called the attack “a barbaric act of terrorism” that is claimed was carried out “with the use of weapons supplied by the West”, though these claims can’t be verified.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky did not address the attack in his nightly video address, but said that Russia had shelled more than 100 cities, towns and villages in nine regions in Ukraine in a single day, describing attacks in the Donetsk as “particularly severe”.
Ukraine’s forces in the Tavria (southern region), insisted in a Facebook post that soldiers under its command were not responsible.
