Chilling footage shows the moment Ukrainian forces ambushed a column of Russian tanks — deploying a lethal combination of missiles, armored drones, landmines and machine-gun fire to annihilate the enemy.

Members of the Ukraine’s 30th Mechanized Brigade were recently lying in wait near the village of Synkivka, about 5 miles northwest of the strategically important city of Kupyansk in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, when two Russian main battle line tanks and two armored personnel carriers drove right into their trap.

The drone footage shared by Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense on X earlier this month shows the enemy vehicles making their way through a mined kill zone littered with the scorched remnants of Russian military equipment that had been used in at least half a dozen previous failed offensives in the area.

As the lead Russian tank makes its way past a thicket of bare trees lining the pathway, it is struck by a Ukrainian antitank missile and explodes into a fireball, sending clouds of thick, black smoke rising into the air.

The remaining Russian vehicles in the doomed column try to backtrack, but the Ukrainians swiftly cut off their retreat by blasting the rear armored personnel carrier with an armed drone.

As smoke pours out of the disabled vehicle, Russian troops emerge from the interior and flee toward the tree line.

The two still-intact vehicles, left as sitting ducks in the exposed no man’s land, desperately try to get away from the ambush — but in their hasty flight drive over landmines and burst into flames.

The Ukrainians then deployed cluster munitions against the decimated column, sending Moscow’s soldiers running for their lives. It was not immediately clear from the video how many combatants were killed or wounded.

“A typical day for the Russian occupiers in Ukraine,” the Ukrainian Defense Ministry gloated in an X post accompanying the footage, which was set to a humorous Italian gibberish song from a 1981 Soviet cartoon.

The open-source intelligence channel Tender described what happened near Kupyansk as “absolute carnage.”

Russia was said to have deployed at least seven tank and armored personnel carrier columns to try and capture the settlement of Synkivka between Dec. 14 and Dec. 28, each of which was systemically wiped out by Kyiv’s forces, Forbes previously reported.

For Moscow, the goal is to inch closer to the city of Kupyanks and solidify its gains in the Luhansk region, much of which is already under Moscow’s control — and grab more territory in the Kharkiv region.

Russia has been making incremental advances in some sections of the front line but so far has failed to punch through Ukraine’s defenses.

Likewise, Kyiv’s forces have struggled to liberate large swathes of land occupied by the enemy in the wake of a disappointing spring counteroffensive.

As a result, the conflict has largely ground to a stalemate over the winter months. Questions remain whether Ukraine will be able to fend off Russia if US Republicans in Congress continue blocking a new military and financial aid package proposed by Democrats.

Russian units continued attacking sectors north of Kupyansk on Sunday but failed to advance, the Institute for the Study think tank reported in its latest update.