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Joe Golder & Matthew Dresch

Moment Ukrainians destroy Russian tanks with laser-guided and Javelin missiles

This dramatic footage shows Ukrainian soldiers destroying Russian tanks with laser-guided missiles and Javelins.

Troops can be heard cheering as one of the missiles hits its target, sending a huge fireball into the air.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shared videos of soldiers using the PTRK 'Stugna-P' anti-tank launcher in two attacks.

In both clips, troops fired slightly off-target at first before pointing the crosshairs at Russian tanks, guiding it with their laser system until the missiles explode.

In the first video, operators cheered when their missile struck the Russian vehicle.

In the second clip, a lone enemy soldier appears to run away from his tank after a successful Ukrainian attack.

The dramatic footage shows Ukrainian forces hitting Russian tanks with missiles (Newsflash)

The Ukrainian General Staff said "the Russian occupiers will not hide anywhere", adding that the "masters of their craft 'work' with long distances".

Meanwhile, a clip shared on Telegram shows a Javelin missile smashing into what appears to be two Russian vehicles positioned next to each other.

A huge fireball engulfs the mini convoy when the projectile hits its target.

The Javelin is a highly effective anti-tank weapon, which uses automatic tracking to hit moving targets.

A clip shared on Telegram showed a successful attack using a Javelin missile (Telegram)
A huge fireball appeared to engulf two Russian armoured vehicles in the clip (Telegram)

Describing the high-tech weapon, the website army-technology states: "The gunner engages the target using the sight on the command launch unit (CLU), by placing a curser box over the image of the target.

"The gunner locks on the automatic target tracker in the missile by sending a lock-on-before-launch command to the missile.

"When the system is locked-on, the missile is ready to fire, and the gunner does not carry out post launch tracking or missile guidance."

The website adds that the gunner is free to move away from the firing point once the missile is in the air.

Russia is suffering heavy casualties in its invasion of Ukraine (SWNS)

The video of Ukrainian forces attacking Russian tanks has been released after drone footage appeared to show rockets being fired at armoured vehicles in the city of Mariupol.

The aerial footage shared on social media appears to shows a BTR-82 APC and KamAZ-63968 'Typhoon' vehicle being targeted successfully.

It is unknown how many injuries or possible deaths occurred in the hit.

Last Wednesday, Russian forces hit a maternity hospital in the city, which tragic news of the deaths of a pregnant mum and her baby emerging this morning.

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Sajid Javid says the attack on the maternity hospital at Mariupol was a "war crime".

He told Sky: "It's an appalling atrocity, it's a war crime.

"Under international law you cannot attack health facilities, hospitals. The most recent information I have from the World Health Organisation is they now have documented evidence of at least 31 such attacks on health facilities, hospitals, including shelling a couple of days ago, a cancer hospital as well."

More than 2,500 residents of the Black Sea port city of Mariupol have been killed since Russian invaded Ukraine on February 24, presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said in a televised interview on Monday.

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