Russian troopers have been filmed filling a tank with a number of tons of explosives and remotely driving it in direction of a gaggle of Ukrainian troopers, earlier than it exploded in an infinite fireball.

The horrific new army tactic has been employed by the Russians simply as Kyiv introduced that it will be pausing its counter-offensive within the south of the nation following heavy losses of armoured automobiles.

Terrifying footage from the Donetsk area confirmed a remote-controlled T-54 tank, stuffed stuffed with six tons of explosives, creeping in direction of a trench stuffed with Ukranian troops.

The Ukrainians open fire on the automobile earlier than the tank rolls over a landmine, which slows it down.

A soldier can then be seen firing a rocket on the armoured automobile, inflicting it to blow up in an enormous ball of flames, the Daily Mail stories.

Though the tank was an estimated 200ft away from the Ukrainian personnel, it’s thought that the highly effective shockwave brought on by the explosion is more likely to have killed a handful of troopers.

Russia has reportedly employed the ‘suicide tank’ tactic twice earlier than, however that is the primary time the brutal weapon has been caught on digital camera.

Russian propaganda channel ‘Romanov’ claimed that Putin’s forces bunged six tonnes of explosives into the tank and tried to ship it to Kyiv territory utilizing an autopilot system.

However, the plan was thwarted when the tank exploded on a landmine roughly 100 metres from the entrance line, earlier than being completed off by a Ukrainian soldier with an RPG.

The Russian defence ministry has claimed to make use of the inhumane tactic on at the least one earlier event.

They posted footage of Russian troops cramming explosives right into a tank earlier than sending it in direction of Ukranian troops.

The new tactic comes a Putin doubled down on his resolution to ship troops into Ukraine, once more claiming that the Ukrainian authorities is a neo-Nazi regime, regardless of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Jewish roots.

“My Jewish friends say that Zelensky is not a Jew, but a shame to the Jewish people,” Mr Putin mentioned throughout a speech on the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.

The Russian president additionally ramped up his aggressive rhetoric in opposition to the West, asserting that he had ordered a battery of tactical nuclear weapons to be stationed in Belarus and used within the occasion Russia’s territory coming beneath menace.

He mentioned that the transfer was about “containment” and to remind any of his adversaries who could also be “thinking of inflicting a strategic defeat on us”.

When requested if he would think about using the weapons, he replied: “Why should we threaten the whole world? I have already said that the use of extreme measures is possible in case there is a danger to Russian statehood.”

Putin went on: “Nuclear weapons are created to make sure our safety within the broadest sense of the phrase and the existence of the Russian state. But we, firstly, should not have such a necessity.

“Extreme means could also be used if there’s a menace to Russia’s statehood. In this case, we will definitely use all of the forces and signifies that the Russian state has at its disposal.”

He added: “Just talking about this lowers the nuclear threshold. We have more than NATO countries and they want to reduce our numbers. Go to hell.”