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Lee Bullen & Graeme Murray

Moment Ukrainian troops blitz Russian convoy to disrupt deliveries of fuel and supplies

This is the moment Ukrainian soldiers blitz a Russian military convoy to disrupt the invaders' deliveries of fuel and supplies.

The move ensured vital items could not reach Russian forces and restricted their movements.

It also allowed military vehicles to be targeted and military units to be weakened by Ukrainian forces.

The Command of the Special Operations Forces (SSO) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said the attack was a means of stopping Russian forces in their tracks.

He said: "This is how soldiers of the SSO of Ukraine are fighting to bring down the enemy.

"By cutting off the Russian occupiers from what is needed, we are weakening their units."

Special Operations Forces claimed to have destroyed a fuel tank the Russian Army needed (@usofcom/Newsflash)

The SSO added: "Effective ambushes to disrupt deliveries of supplies and fuel are one of the most important tasks."

The Ukrainian SSO did not mention where or when the attack on Russian supply lines took place.

The footage shows a military tanker hit by what appears to be a rocket before bursting into flames.

Ukrainian reports claimed yesterday, the Russian forces had lost more than 18,000 soldiers and officers, including seven generals, 644 tanks, 1,830 armoured combat vehicles.

The ambush targeted vital supplies Russian forces needed, according to Ukrainian reports (@usofcom/Newsflash)

They also said military hardware had been taken out including 325 artillery systems, 105 MLR systems, 54 air defence units, 143 warplanes, 134 helicopters, 1,249 vehicles and seven warships.

Additional Russian forces targets included 76 fuel tank trucks, 89 operational and tactical-level UAVs, 24 units of special equipment, and four mobile SRBM systems, it was claimed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on 24th February in what the Kremlin is still calling a "special military operation" to "demilitarise and denazify" the European country.

Vladimir Putin has given up on Kyiv (Getty Images)

The United Nations' International Court of Justice in The Hague, the Netherlands, has ordered Russia to stop its invasion and remove its troops from Ukrainian territory.

Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has said his government is prepared to discuss adopting a neutral status as part of a peace deal with Russia.

The Mirror told last week how Chernobyl is back under Ukraine control after Russians forces formally give up the nuclear site.

The fuel tank was destroyed (@usofcom/Newsflash)

The Ukrainian state nuclear company said on Thursday most of the Russian forces that occupied the Chernobyl nuclear power station after invading Ukraine have left the defunct plant, and suggested radiation concerns had driven them away.

Though Russian troops seized control of Chernobyl soon after the Feb. 24 invasion, the plant's Ukrainian staff continued to oversee the safe storage of spent nuclear fuel and supervise the concrete-encased remains of the reactor that exploded in 1986, causing the world's worst nuclear accident.

The ambush was designed to disrupt deliveries of supplies and fuel to the Russian military (@usofcom/Newsflash)

State-owned Energoatom said these workers had flagged earlier on Thursday that Russian forces were planning to leave the territory.

"The information is confirmed that the occupiers, who seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and other facilities in the exclusion zone, have set off in two columns towards the Ukrainian border with the Republic of Belarus," it said in a statement.

It said a small number of Russian troops remained at Chernobyl, but did not specify how many. Russian forces have also retreated from the nearby town of Slavutych, where workers at Chernobyl live, it said.

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