This is the moment Ukrainian troops driving a US-supplied armored vehicle mowed down several Russian soldiers.
In the footage, taken from a nearby drone, a Stryker infantry carrier can be seen driving through the snowy landscape of the Kursk battlefield before making a sharp turn and beginning to accelerate towards a soldier.
The video then cuts abruptly just before the 16-ton vehicle hits the soldier.
Other clips show the infantry carrier, which has a top speed of 60 mph, chasing and shooting down other soldiers on the battlefield.
According to Ukrainian troops, the Stryker machine gun ran out of ammunition during the confrontation with Putin’s forces.
Although one crew member reportedly used a rifle to shoot at the soldiers.
It has not been specified where the incident occurred in Kursk and why the Russians found the vehicle in the open.
In words reported by the Daily TelegraphWar correspondent David Ax claimed that troops may have been separated from Russian forces during the Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kursk on Sunday.
In the footage, taken from a nearby drone, a Stryker infantry transport can be seen driving through the snowy landscape of the Kursk battlefield before making a sharp turn and beginning to accelerate towards a soldier.
Other clips show the infantry vehicle, which has a top speed of 60 mph, chasing and mowing down other soldiers on the battlefield.
A Stryker armored fighting vehicle similar to the one used by Ukraine in Kursk. Footage shows Ukrainian troops shooting down Russian soldiers while driving the US-supplied vehicle.
Mr. Ax said: “That kind of confused fighting has characterized the Battle of Kursk.”
Yesterday, Ukraine said it was carrying out “new offensive operations” and had carried out a “high-precision strike” against the command center of a Russian marine brigade near the village of Belaya.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that Ukraine’s advance had been thwarted.
Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky claimed that 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in attempts to repel Ukrainian advances on Kursk since August.
“During the Kursk operation, the enemy already lost 38,000 of its soldiers in this direction alone, and almost 15,000 of these losses were irreversible,” Zelensky said in his late-night video speech, although the figures could not be independently verified.
Ukraine launched a massive incursion into the Kursk region last summer and has seized large swaths of territory, although the Russian military claims to have regained much of it.
After a period of relative stagnation, kyiv forces mounted a renewed offensive in the region on Sunday, with the head of the Ukrainian president’s office, Andriy Yermak, declaring: “Russia is getting what it deserves” in Kursk.
The Russian Defense Ministry acknowledged that Ukrainian troops had carried out an assault around the town of Berdin with several tanks – reportedly including British Challengers – a mine clearance truck and 12 armored fighting vehicles.
A destroyed Russian tank lies on the side of a road near the city of Sudzha, Russia, in the Kursk region.
A soldier walks in a ruined central market near the front lines in Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
But yesterday, Russian and Moscow war blogging channels reported that the Ukrainian assault on Berdin had been thwarted and Ukrainian units there destroyed, although they cited no evidence.
Ukraine’s new attack comes as both sides seek to strengthen their negotiating position ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House on January 20, just over a month before the third anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Russia.
Trump’s arrival in the Oval Office is expected to precipitate a push for a ceasefire, as the future president and key members of his staff have alluded to a plan to force both sides to reach a peace deal.
Zelensky said last year that the Kursk operation had boosted kyiv’s “swap fund” – its negotiating position on the exchange of prisoners of war – and diverted tens of thousands of Russian troops from the Eastern Front.
US officials have also confirmed that the occupation of Kursk is vital ahead of potential ceasefire negotiations to ensure Ukraine has “the strongest possible hand to play.”