DRAMATIC footage shows the moment a Ukrainian shell hit tank cars in the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk, creating a raging inferno.
The main attack on the exercise station reportedly left two dead and a dozen wounded as a huge cloud of smoke blanketed the eastern Ukrainian city, seized through Russia more than a year ago.
An incoming Ukrainian shell hit the tank cars at Mushketovo station, causing flames several meters high.
The attack created a cloud of thick smoke that blanketed Donetsk as fires raged through the night.
Disrupting transportation networks is a key tactic for Ukraine to wreak havoc on Moscow-controlled regions of Ukraine and break through Russian lines to the front line.
“Two other people were killed, in addition to a worker of the Ministry of Emergency Situations,” said Denis Pushilin, Russia’s puppet leader in Donetsk.
Russia’s main newspaper, Izvestia, said three of its journalists were wounded in the blast.
“An Izvestia media team was injured while running in a shelling zone in Donetsk.
“Three correspondents were hospitalized,” the media outlet controlled through Vladimir Putin’s mistress, Alina Kabaeva, reported.
Russia has reported 29 separate Ukrainian movements in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic in the past 24 hours alone.
It comes as Ukraine humiliated Russia on the battlefield by blowing up a £5 million Russian tank with just a £300 million drone earlier this month.
Footage shared via Ukraine’s 59th Motorized Brigade shows the final moments of a TOS-1A heavy flamethrower before the dramatic explosion.
The epic scene is filmed from a Ukrainian drone flying over the Soviet tank, which it later decimated.
A few weeks earlier, Ukrainian commandos on jet skis introduced a raid that attacked the center of Putin’s naval stronghold.
In the dead of night, twenty frogmen loaded with rifles, grenades and rockets embarked on a bold project to occupy Crimea, which Russia has been turning into a fortress for years.
When their boots hit the ground, they were the first Ukrainian infantrymen to set foot on the illegally annexed peninsula just a decade ago.
Kyiv then released more footage of its successful midnight incursion, further embarrassing Russian forces.
Ukraine has set out to turn Crimea and the Russian-occupied territories into an active war zone, which they target with a barrage of missiles and kamikaze drone strikes.
In a dramatic feat, Ukraine managed to bomb the headquarters of Putin’s Black Sea fleet in a ferocious missile attack in September that killed dozens of officers.
The attack marked one of the Ukrainian attacks of the entire war after last year’s sinking of the fleet’s flagship, the cruiser Moskva.
Ukraine has used British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles, which destroy bunkers and have proven to be a nightmare for Putin, as they can fly targets up to 350 miles away.
They are credited with devastating moves on bridges, as well as hits on warships, ammunition depots and other military targets in Crimea.
Also in September, Ukraine introduced at least ten Storm Shadow missiles along with drones in a major attack on Russia’s tough Black Sea Fleet.
British missiles pierced the hull of a submarine and a £250 million attack ship, embarrassing Putin, who had sat down with Kim Jong-un to announce his “friendly” visit.
And in August, Kyiv carried out two daring attacks on two intelligence ships and movements that blew up an army ship and an oil tanker.
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