Moment Ukrainian troops mow down Russian soldiers after chasing him down in US-supplied Stryker armoured vehicle in Kursk frontline battlefield

This is the moment Ukrainian forces in a US-supplied armored vehicle mowed down several Russian soldiers.

The footage, taken from a nearby drone, shows a Stryker infantry carrier driving through the snowy landscape of the Kursk battlefield before making a sharp turn and driving towards a soldier.

The video then cuts abruptly just before the 16-ton vehicle hits the soldier.

Other clips show the infantry vehicle, which has a top speed of 60 miles per hour, chasing and knocking down other soldiers on the battlefield.

According to Ukrainian forces, the Stryker machine gun ran out of ammunition during the clash with Putin’s forces.

Although one crew member reportedly used a rifle to shoot at the soldiers.

It is not specified where the incident took place in Kursk and why the Russians encountered the vehicle in the open.

Reported in words by the Daily TelegraphWar correspondent David Ax claimed that troops could have been separated from Russian forces during the Ukrainian counter-offensive against Kursk on Sunday.

Other clips show the infantry vehicle, which has a top speed of 62 miles per hour, chasing and knocking down other soldiers on the battlefield

A Stryker armored fighting vehicle similar to the one used by Ukraine in Kursk. Footage shows Ukrainian troops mowing down Russian soldiers as they drive the US-supplied vehicle

Mr Ax said: “This kind of confused fighting has characterized the battle for Kursk.”

Yesterday, Ukraine said it was carrying out new offensive operations and had carried out a “highly precise attack” on the command center of a Russian naval brigade near the village of Belaya.

The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that Ukraine’s advance had been thwarted.

Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky claimed that 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since August in attempts to repel Ukraine’s advance in Kursk.

“During the Kursk operation, the enemy has lost 38,000 soldiers in this direction alone, with almost 15,000 of these losses being irreversible,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address, although the figures could not be independently verified.

Ukraine launched a massive incursion into the Kursk region last summer and has seized swaths of territory, although the Russian army claims to have recaptured much of it.

After a period of relative stalemate, Kiev’s armed forces launched a renewed offensive in the region on Sunday, with the head of the Ukrainian president’s office, Andriy Yermak, in Kursk declaring: “Russia gets what it deserves.”

The Russian Defense Ministry acknowledged that Ukrainian forces had carried out an attack around the town of Berdin with several tanks – believed to include British Challengers – a mine clearance vehicle and twelve armored fighting vehicles.

A destroyed Russian tank stands on the side of the road near the city of Sudzha, Russia, in the Kursk region

A soldier walks through a destroyed central market near the front line in Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

But yesterday, Moscow and Russian war blog channels reported that the Ukrainian attack on Berdin had been foiled and that Ukrainian units there had been destroyed, although no evidence was cited.

Ukraine’s new attack comes as both sides seek to strengthen their negotiating position ahead of the return of newly-elected US President Donald Trump on January 20 – just over a month before the three-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Trump’s arrival in the Oval Office is widely expected to lead to a push for a ceasefire, with the president-elect and key members of his staff having hinted at a plan to strong-arm both sides into a peace deal .

Zelensky said last year that the Kursk operation had strengthened Kiev’s “exchange fund” – its negotiating position on prisoner-of-war exchanges – and diverted tens of thousands of Russian troops from the eastern front.

US officials have also confirmed that the occupation of Kursk is crucial ahead of possible ceasefire negotiations, to ensure that Ukraine has “the strongest possible hand to play.”