A Russian tank is filmed crashing and crushing a civilian car driven by an elderly woman in a suburb of Ukrainethe capital of Kiev.
The incident, recorded from different angles, saw the armored car moving on a main road leading through a residential area.
As the tank quickly approached the civilian car moving in the opposite direction, it abruptly veered toward it, leaving the driver some time to react.
The much larger vehicle collided head-on with the vehicle and rolled over, crushing it under its weight before rolling off and driving off. The car was shunted back and almost on tram rails.
Miraculously, reports say the driver of the car survived the shocking crash, with an additional video showing people working desperately to free her from the wreckage.
The incident occurred as Russian troops approached the Ukrainian capital after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion early Thursday.
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A Russian military car was filmed crashing into a civilian car near the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. Pictured: The aftermath of the crash, with the driver trapped inside
The incident, recorded from different angles, saw an armored truck driving on a main road leading through a residential area. As the armored vehicle approached the civilian vehicle, it abruptly veered toward it – giving the driver some time to react.
In the photo: the crushed car can be seen in the video as it was hit and crushed by a Russian military car near Kiev
Using tools, including an ax and a lever, a group of men are shown in the video working to loosen the door so they can save the woman who was caught in the car, which was almost completely destroyed.
Numerous videos of the incident were shared on social media, with those who posted it on Twitter reporting that they were recorded on Obolon, found north of Kiev.
One corner is shot from a window overlooking the street. While shot from a distance, the video shows the truck suddenly turning into the car.
Another angle, taken from a window overlooking the multi-lane road, shows the aftermath of the crash, capturing an armored car reversing from the car.
Although the rescue of the woman was not filmed in the video, reports say that rescuers were then able to pull her out of the wreckage.
The photos also show the wrecked vehicle, which is almost completely flattened by the armored truck. The windshield was flat and flush with the front cover, which was also crushed. The engine was also found.
The photos show that the woman must have been able to lean on his seat and cross the passenger seat so that she would not be crushed.
Twitter users said the armored vehicle that crashed into the car appeared to be a 9K35 Strela-10, a short-range surface-to-air missile system.
This was not checked immediately.
Miraculously, reports say the driver of the car survived the shocking crash, with an additional video (pictured) showing people working desperately to free her from the wreckage.
The rockets hit the Ukrainian capital on Friday as Russian forces pushed forward, and Kiev authorities said they were preparing for an attack aimed at overthrowing the government.
Sirens of air strikes blew over Kiev, a European city of three million people, and some residents sheltered in subway stations a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion that shocked the world.
Ukrainian authorities say a Russian plane was shot down and crashed into a building in Kiev during the night, setting it on fire and injuring eight people.
A senior Ukrainian official said Russian forces would enter areas just outside the capital later Friday and that Ukrainian troops were defending positions on four fronts, despite being superior.
Kyiv City Council has warned residents of the Obolon district near an air base captured by Russian paratroopers on Thursday to remain indoors due to “the approach of active hostilities”.
Windows were blown up in a 10-story apartment building near Kiev’s main airport, where a two-meter crater full of rubble showed where a projectile had struck before dawn. A police officer said there were wounded but not killed.
Pictured: The remains of the vehicle lie on the road near the Ukrainian capital Kiev on February 25, 2022.
“How can we experience this in our time? What to think. “Putin must be burned in hell with his whole family,” said Oksana Gulenko, sweeping broken glass from her room.
A neighbor, Soviet Army veteran Anatoly Marchenko, 57, could not find his cat, which escaped during the shelling.
“I know people there, they are my friends,” he told Russia. “What do they need from me?” War came to my house.
Witnesses said loud explosions were heard in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city near the Russian border, and air raids sounded over Lviv to the west. Authorities say heavy fighting has taken place in the eastern city of Sumy.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people have fled major cities.
Dozens were reported killed. Russian troops captured the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant north of Kiev as they advanced on the city from Belarus. Ukraine said radiation levels there have been raised.
U.S. officials say Russia’s original goal is to oust President Vladimir Zelensky and “decapitate” his government. Zelensky said troops are coming for him, but he will stay in Kiev.
In the photo: Soldiers of the Ukrainian National Guard occupy positions in the center of Kiev, Ukraine, February 25, 2022, in anticipation of the impending Russian invasion
A man sits in front of his destroyed building after the bombing of the city of Chuguev in eastern Ukraine on February 24, 2022, while the Russian armed forces invade Ukraine
“The enemy marked me as the number one target,” Zelenski said in a video message. “My family is number two. They want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state.
Russia launched its invasion by land, air and sea on Thursday after Putin declared war, in the biggest attack on a European country since World War II.
Putin says Ukraine is an illegitimate state carved by Russia, a view Ukrainians believe is aimed at erasing their more than millennial history.
Putin’s full goals remain unclear. He says he is not planning a military occupation just to disarm Ukraine and remove its leaders.
But it is unclear how a pro-Russian leader can be appointed without holding much of the country. Russia has not named a single figure and has not mentioned one.
After Moscow denied for months that it was planning an invasion, the news that Putin had ordered one was a shock to Russians accustomed to seeing their 22-year-old ruler as a cautious strategist. Many Russians have friends and family in Ukraine.
Russia intervened against the dissent, and state media ruthlessly described Ukraine as a threat, but thousands of Russians took to the streets to protest the war. Hundreds were arrested quickly.
A pop star posted a video on Instagram opposing the war, and the head of the Moscow State Theater left, saying she would not take her salary from a murderer.