Heartstopping moment Russian tank is blown up by ‘Switchblade’ drone just as doomed commander turns to realise his fate

THIS is the heartstopping infinitesimal a Russian vessel is blown to pieces aft being blasted by Ukraine's slayer Switchblade drone successful Putin's latest battlefield blow.

Dramatic footage shows the commandant of the T-90M Proryv turning conscionable seconds earlier the detonation that sparked a immense mushroom cloud.

Moscow has reportedly mislaid astatine slightest 117 T-90M tanks - dubbed "Breakthrough" - said to beryllium 1 of the astir precocious tanks successful the world.

The latest nonaccomplishment came erstwhile the vessel was wiped retired by Ukraine's deadly Switchblade kamikaze drone - besides known arsenic Flying Javelin.

The video shows the unaware commandant positioned supra the hatch, observing the surrounding area.

He appears to beryllium turning his caput and realising helium is astir to beryllium struck by the drone a fewer seconds earlier a monolithic explosion.

The blast sparked a immense fiery mushroom unreality portion heavy achromatic fume tin beryllium seen billowing successful the air.

More than 100 Russian T-90M tanks person been destroyed, damaged, oregon abandoned.

The blase Switchblade 600 drones - nicknamed "flying shotguns" measurement 50lb and tin alert 25 miles and "loiter" supra a target for 40 minutes earlier striking them astatine 115mph.

The drone - which is operated by a tablet instrumentality and tin beryllium pre-programmed - person peculiar armour-piercing warheads that tin shred a vessel to pieces.

The Switchblades marque premier sidesplitting tools arsenic not lone they're deadly - they don't necessitate a batch of training.

They tin beryllium carried successful a backpack with a portable conduit launcher and instrumentality arsenic small arsenic 10 minutes to acceptable up.

The Switchblade 600 tin abort a onslaught seconds earlier hitting a target.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's aerial defences downed 36 of 89 Russian drones launched overnight, the Ukrainian subject said today.

The subject said connected Telegram it had mislaid way of 48 drones, and different 5 had near the territory of Ukraine to Russia and Belarus.

Officials successful Kyiv said a Russian drone onslaught connected the superior near 3 radical injured.

Falling debris from a destroyed drone damaged a non-residential gathering successful Kyiv's Dniprovskyi district, politician Vitali Klitschko said connected his Telegram messaging channel.

Serhiy Popko, caput of Kyiv's subject administration, said that aerial defence units were operating successful the metropolis aft midnight.

The strikes travel aft Russia launched a grounds fig of drones targeting Ukraine connected Tuesday, cutting power to overmuch of the occidental portion of Ternopil and damaging residential buildings successful the Kyiv region.