THIS is the heart-stopping moment Ukrainian special forces ambushed Putin's troops as they continue to storm deeper inside Russia.
Dramatic first person footage shows Ukraine's valiant troops dressed in camouflaged bodysuits as they run through the woods hunting Putin's men with grenades, guns and rockets.
Video shows the heavily armed soldiers storming through the trees as they get closer to the enemy.
The group of at least six men can be seen rapidly shooting at Russian targets and vehicles in the war-torn Kursk region.
Putin's troops are then attacked with what appears to be grenades as huge explosions erupt in the fields.
A flash of light can be seen before the Ukrainian Army Reg team start to move in.
After making up more ground the troops launch another assault with what looks like a mini rocket launcher.
Footage captures the moment the weapon is used as a bright orange blast shoots towards a Russian truck parked behind some trees.
The motor is quickly set on fire as it begins to burn and thick plumes of smoke are sent billowing up into the sky.
The vehicle was "heavily filled with enemy personnel", says a post from the unit on Telegram.
With the truck still alight the troops finish off the successful ambush as they clear onto the road and celebrate the strike.
The Ukrainian soldiers say they managed to burn all of the equipment and eliminated the "enemy personnel in four minutes".
It is unclear exactly where the troops launched their attack.
Kyiv now claims to control 74 settlements in Kursk - meaning they have taken more territory than Russia has gained in Ukraine in eight months.
Ukraine's troops took only a week to claim 400 square miles of enemy soil as Vlad became the first Russian leader to surrender home turf since the Second World War.
Thousands of troops have piled into Russia in beefed up convoys including tanks and aircraft since the mini invasion started last Tuesday.
The latest Ukrainian blitz saw massive kamikaze drone and missile strikes overnight as president Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to go "even deeper" into Russia.
Some 117 drones targeted at least nine regions across Russia - hitting two crucial airfields in Russian territory.
One of them includes the Savasleyka military base in Nizhny Novgorod, home to lethal hypersonic Kinzhal missiles and MiG-31K aircraft used to bomb Ukraine.
An aircraft-type drone was seen in the sky ahead of the strike with a total of ten “arrivals” reported.
The number of casualties continue to rise with Putin's men struggling to halt the Ukrainian advance.
It's estimated the Ukrainians have also captured up to 1,200 of their rival soldiers in the staggering surge.
As many as 130,000 civilians in Kursk and the surrounding areas have been forced to evacuate amid daily missile alerts.
Aerial attacks have been traded each night with both forces decimating each other in the barrages.
Putin's illegal invasion in 2022 has led to the Kremlin currently controlling nearly a fifth of Ukrainian territory after two-and-a-half years of fighting.
Ukraine's surprise push into Russia has been widely seen as an attempt to divert fighting away from its own turf and to save them some valuable time to regroup.
Vlad has speculated the surge was driven "with the help of Western masters” to gain leverage at the negotiating table for potential peace talks.
Some Kremlin sources even blamed Britain for the mini invasion.
The latest assaults on Russia have come just days after Putin desperately scrambled to avoid losing more ground as he reshuffled his units.
He reportedly called in his ex-bodyguard, Alexei Dyumin, to lead the desperate defence of Kursk as Russian casualties pile up.
Dyumin, 51, is now coordinating the defence ministry, security agencies and regional authorities in the rush to save Russia.
Dyumin is regarded as a potential successor to Putin as the despot is said to be full of praise for his former protector.
UKRAINE'S daring invasion into Russia has been launched for two key reasons - with one aimed at Putin and one at the West.
A high-ranking Ukrainian official told AFP that the idea behind the attack is to stretch Putin's armies as much as possible, spreading them thinly over different areas.
The security brass told AFP on condition of anonymity that "the aim is to stretch the positions of the enemy, to inflict maximum losses and to destabilise the situation in Russia as they are unable to protect their own border".
As well as acting as a huge morale-boosting win for Ukraine - the invasion also has a second key purpose in Kyiv's masterplan.
It is a message to allies in the West who have closely monitored Putin's war.
Military analyst Franz-Stefan Gady told : "This is definitely one consideration that it is really a signal to the West and to Ukrainian allies and partners that Ukraine is still capable of launching offensive operations.
"That Ukraine is capable of conducting fairly complex operations into enemy territory."
Vlad on the other hand claims Ukraine are simply trying to gain leverage for peace talk negotiations.
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