THIS is the eerie moment terrified Russians shoot at a mysterious “UFO helicopter” darting over Moscow.
The ominous drone was blasted by paranoid air defences as they suffered a separate drone strike early on Thursday.
Sinister footage shows a strange rotating object spinning over the region.
It has a red centre and is surrounded by a spinning white circular shell.
Then in a dramatic scene, mad ‘s air defence systems appear to blast towards the drone, attempting to take it out.
They clearly miss a lot of their shots, as the undamaged aircraft seemingly carries on.
The body appears to be separate from the rotating “wings”, which are also emitting small particles in their path.
Some suspected the red and white spinning aircraft was one of “new helicopter-drones“.
One war channel said the bizarre aircraft might be a “helicopter-type drone RZ-500 or something similar”.
But the RZ-500 has a maximum range of 186 miles, which is not far enough to reach Moscow.
were then mocked by several Ukrainian reports over the brazen volley of fire into the night sky over Naro-Forminsk.
One Military channel claimed the aircraft was a Russian helicopter.
The channel said: “Russian air defence near Moscow tried to take down its own helicopter, mistaking it for enemy UAV.”
Another report claimed: “It’s a helicopter, dumb**** – in the Moscow region they were hunting so hard that they almost shot down their own helicopter.”
There were no reports of a helicopter or a drone being downed, nor damage from a drone explosion hitting a target.
Over Wednesday night, Russia shot down 48 Ukrainian drones headed towards ‘s regime.
13 were downed over the Bryansk and Kursk region, while 12 were shot down over the Kaluga region.
Locals on Telegram said they witnessed drones approaching from the south-west of the city, and loud explosions were heard in Naro-Forminsk.
Some Ukrainian military aircraft circled the Moscow area for an extended period – consistently evading Russian air defence missiles.
Several of these aircraft managed to escape without any damage.
On Thursday Ukraine also stormed ‘s frontline as they invaded Russia again.
Ukrainian forces seized mad Vlad's land in the Belgorod region.
It comes after a Ukrainian attack on Moscow in March.
Drones blitzed Moscow in a massive assault, and struck a major Russian oil refinery.
And swarmed Russia with drones in early March as ‘s negotiators were due to start talks with ‘s team in .
