Russia Ukraine war: Video shows Russian tank blown to pieces
Video has captured the shocking moment jubilant Ukrainian forces destroyed Russian tank. WATCH THE FOOTAGE
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Video has captured the shocking moment a Russian tank was blown to pieces by Ukrainian force.
The jaw-dropping footage, shared by Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence, showed the lone Russian tank being struck by a possible mine or an anti-tank rocket.
The defence ministry said in a tweet: “25th Separate Airborne Brigade Sicheslav Brigade ‘game over’, Russian invaders!
“The paratroopers continue to multiply the Moksha army to zero with accurate shots!
“We will win! Glory to Ukraine!”
It comes after cameras earlier captured the moment a bus in the Ukraine capital is blasted into bits by a Russian missile.
The Kyiv City Council released surveillance footage showing a green bus stopped at an intersection at around 11am local time.
A male can be seen walking in the foreground looking up at the sky before the bus explodes in what looks like a direct hit.
German news outlet Bild reported the strike left two people dead and nine injured.
The United Nations estimates almost 2.8 million people have fled Ukraine since President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale land and air assault on February 24.
It has recorded more than 600 civilian deaths, including dozens of children, though the true toll could be far higher.
INSIDE A CHURCH CRYPT TURNED BOMB BUNKER
For more than 400 years, the Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church in central Lviv has been a sanctuary and refuge for those persecuted by foreign raiders.
On Sunday it was again, as it opened its network of subterranean catacombs and crypts when Russian bombers launched a volley of cruise missiles at the city’s outskirts.
The spectacular baroque church, built in 1610, was holding Sunday mass to pray for peace and the 1300 Ukrainian soldiers who have fallen on the battlefield in the past two weeks.
But shortly after 11am sirens drowned out church bells to announce the battlefield had come to them and the entire congregation poured into the multistorey catacombs below the church. See video below:
There among the sarcophagus of a 18th century bishop and other tombs, some wept softly, others prayed and no doubt all wondered how the hell it had come to this.
“We keep the door open now always for people to shelter here, the history here of this church has always been one offering shelter, so we keep tradition,” said a church lay-member usher.
Many were refugees who had only just fled other cities in the east that have been under relentless assault and thought here they were safe.
Air raid sirens have been sounding in this UNESCO listed city – fought for over the centuries by Hungarians, Austrians, Germans, Cossacks, Tatars and Poles – for two weeks but the missiles carried on overhead to other targets like capital Kyiv or cities Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr.
But this time the thuds could be heard and shudders felt here from the massive ordinance dropped on an army base 35km away. The first alert ran from 3.30am
to sometime after 6.30am, the second shortly after 11am.
Lviv is a melting pot now of tens of thousands of refugees, foreign fighters and humanitarian workers and the assault to its outskirts is significant as it has brought the conflict to within a few kilometres of Poland and Europe’s doorstep.
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