Russian tank explodes into fireball in Ukraine in dramatic drone footage

dailystar.co.uk:

Ukraine. In the unverified clip, posted on Twitter on Tuesday (March 15) a tank is driving through the snow-covered rural landscape.There is suddenly a burst of fire and the tank disappears into a black cloud of smoke and red flames.When the footage cuts forward in time, the blast zone is just a smoldering black mark on the ground and the tank is charred to a crisp.The unverified Twitter account @ArmedForcesUkr (not to be confused with the official page of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU) celebrated the attack, writing alongside the video: "Game over, Russian invaders!"It also tweeted: "WE WILL WIN!

GLORY TO UKRAINE."One user commented: "Jesus f***ing christ...what was that?"Meanwhile, others debated if the explosion was caused by a Ukrainian missile or a hidden mine on the ground.One said: "Javeline is my educated guess.

The time between shot and hit and the angle of the shot could not have been straight on."A second commented: "That’s was an artillery explosion, it wouldn’t even be possible to be shot from there since the initial explosion was on the other side of the tank."Someone else suggested: "There is fire blast from the right, looks like some sort of ATGM at point-blank range."As of March 15, there have been 1,834 confirmed civilian casualties in Ukraine with 691 killed and 1,143 injured according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human RightsMore than 13,500 Russian troops have been killed according to the Ukrainian military.This comes after drone footage appeared to show a man holding up his arms in surrender get shot dead by Russian troops.

And Russia spread a deep fake video of Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky surrendering with a cyber attack on a news website.Zelensky gave a.