Shocking moment ‘six of Putin’s commanders and five soldiers are blown up in vehicle ambush’. Footage thought to have been captured by the 56th Motor Rifle Brigade near the city of Avdiivka, in Donbas, shows one Russian vehicle getting blown up by a missile before a second crashes on to its roof. The video was posted online by Colonel Anatonly Shtefan, a Ukrainian officer, who said six Russian commanders and five soldiers had been killed in the ambush – which was launched as the Russians were heading back from a meeting in headquarters. It comes just a day after Lieutenant Colonel Olga ‘Kursa’ Kachura, who fought with Russian forces in Donbas, was said to have been killed in a missile strike on her car in Horlivka, just a short distance from Avdiivka. However, it is not yet clear whether that strike and the one caught on film are one-and-the-same.