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Mind-blowing video game-style footage shows Ukrainian drone drop a bomb on a Russian tank triggering enormous fireball
DRAMATIC footage captures the moment a Ukrainian drone drops a bomb on a Russian tank, sparking a huge fireball.
The video, reportedly filmed in the Mykolaiv region of southern Ukraine, shows in crystal-clear quality the improvised explosive land a direct hit on a Russian T-72 tank.
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In the brief clip, which was shared on Twitter, the drone's camera pans over a wooded area to where the Russian tank has been hidden by the tree cover.
The drone gets directly over the tank while the operator checks the angles, before unleashing an improvised munition containing a 1.5kg explosive payload.
It lands right on the tank's engine area, triggering an enormous explosion and taking the tank out of action.
The drone camera then zooms in to examine the damage to the T-72, each one costs around $1 million (£890k) when new.
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It isn't known if there were any Russian soldiers inside the tank at the time.
The video comes as fighting continues across southern and eastern Ukraine, with President Zelensky's forces battling to retake more of the territory claimed by Russia.
Vlad's troops have been forced to beat a hasty retreat from parts of Kherson Oblast, which only last month was welcomed into Russia along with three other Ukrainian territories following sham referendums carried out by Putin's thugs.
Kyiv accuses Moscow of forcibly deporting Ukrainians to Russia as it retreats, something the Kremlin has denied.
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Meanwhile, more Russian missiles were filed on Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine, sparking further fears of damage to Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
President Zelensky accused Russian forces this week of planting mines at a major hydroelectric dam in Kherson, seeking to destroy it and trigger a "catastrophe on a grand scale".
He also said the attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure including power plants is aimed at creating a new wave of refugees to further destabilise Europe.
Russia claims to have conscripted at least 260,000 people so far, 40,000 short of the target set by the Russian parliament, the Duma.
However, the mobilisation has sparked fury among many in Russia, leading to claims it has been halted early in parts of the country.
Reports say Putin's army is enlisting the names of the dead, disabled, and children in a bid to artificially inflate its conscription numbers.
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Putin's secret enlistment police threatened to smash down the dead man's door in a bid to round up conscripts, his family told news site Mediazona.
His niece said: "They promised to destroy the door, so we opened up."
While Oleg Vasiliev, who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy and is unable to walk, was stunned when he was ordered to go to his nearest enlistment office.
Others called up include a foreign woman who was handed Russian citizenship just two years ago, a 63-year-old pensioner and a 16-year-old transplant patient.
It comes as Putin made a rare appearance in public this week, firing a sniper rifle at a training camp for mobilised Russians.
The Russian President, who recently turned 70, wore protective eye goggles as he tested the rifle at a training ground in the Ryazan region, roughly 100 miles southeast of the capital Moscow.
He lay under a net while firing several shots at a target some 300 metres away.
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No footage was released showing whether or not the short-sighted tyrant hit any of the targets, nor was there any explanation for the visit.
And a chilling nuclear war simulator has revealed how a Russian nuclear strike could trigger a global conflict, killing 35 million people in just a matter of hours.
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