At that moment, the disposal specialists safely removed a giant unexploded bomb from an apartment building in a Ukrainian city.
According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (GSChS), it was one of three OFAB-500 air bombs taken from residential areas of the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv.
The city, located in the north of the country less than 80 miles from the capital Kyiv, has been one of the hardest hit regions in Ukraine and has been hit hard by Russian bombs.
The bomb was slowly lifted out of the huge hole it had created when it crashed into a building in Chernihiv.
Bomb disposal experts helped load the weapons onto the back of a truck before they were safely removed from the scene.
A video posted on Twitter by DSNS shows a large bomb being lifted from a huge hole through which it went.
A gray bomb is loaded onto a crane and secured in place while salvage workers help to slowly load it into the back of a truck, which is then used to haul it away from the scene.
DSNS said it was one of three bombs removed from residential areas of the city, home to about 290,000 people, that were removed by its bomb disposal specialists in one day.
Chernihiv has been heavily bombed ever since Russian troops invaded Ukraine.
Russia admitted last week that it had used a thermobaric “vacuum bomb” in the city, confirming widespread reports that a devastating weapon had been deployed.
The UK Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday last week that Moscow had announced the use of “light” weapons, and the Ukrainian newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda also reported that a Russian artilleryman, Sgt. Sergei Gubarev told state television that he had used a weapon.
Their information came from a report broadcast on Zvezda, the Russian state-owned nationwide television broadcaster run by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Gubarev used weapons on March 4 in the Chernihiv region, Pravda reports.
The day before the thermobaric bomb was used in the city, 47 civilians were killed, who at noon stood in line for bread.
According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SSChS), this huge weapon was one of three bombs seized from residential areas of the city in just one day.
The governor of the Chernihiv regional state administration, Vyacheslav Chaus, said earlier that Russian forces were shelling civilian areas of the city.
In a video message, he said: “The enemy continues to launch missile strikes from the air. Civilians are being killed.
“A lot of people get injured. The enemy strikes at residential areas. Places where you can not find military installations.
According to him, Chernihiv was left without electricity and almost without water, gas and heating.
Despite the successful restoration of power supply, he said that Russian attacks had repeatedly interrupted the network.
Horrifying footage filmed earlier this month in Chernihiv shows the moment when bombs fell on a high-rise building destroyed by Russian airstrikes.
The footage shows the car driving through deserted streets before turning onto a road with a tall apartment building at the end.
Bombs are briefly seen falling from the sky before a cacophonous explosion is heard and the apartment building catches fire before being enveloped in smoke.
The wreckage of a Russian military aircraft on the outskirts of Chernigov on March 5.
Men walk past a residential building destroyed by heavy shelling in Chernihiv on March 4.
The car stops immediately, and as the smoke begins to clear from the ground, dozens of petrified people can be seen running frantically away from the bomb site.
Puffs of smoke billow through the air and rise into the sky in a quiet residential area.
Other heartbreaking footage, released earlier this month from Chernihiv, shows the bloody bodies of civilians lying among the rubble in the streets.
Ukraine’s state emergency agency said the Russian strike left at least 33 civilians dead and 18 others injured.
Chernihiv is one of four Ukrainian cities, including Kharkiv, Sumy and Mariupol, that have come under heavy artillery fire and remain surrounded by Russian troops.
Last week, the Ukrainian military said that Russian troops were placing military equipment on farms and in residential buildings in the city.