THIS is the eerie moment terrified Russians shoot at a mysterious “UFO helicopter” darting over Moscow.

The ominous drone was blasted by paranoid Russian air defences as they suffered a separate drone strike early on Thursday.

Sinister footage shows a strange rotating object spinning over the Moscow region.

It has a red centre and is surrounded by a spinning white circular shell.

Then in a dramatic scene, mad Vlad’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 Ukraine’s “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.

Russians were then mocked by several Ukrainian reports over the brazen volley of fire into the night sky over Naro-Forminsk.

One Ukrainian 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 drones 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 Vladimir Putin’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 Putin’s frontline as they invaded Russia again.

Ukrainian forces seized mad Vlad’s land in the Belgorod region.

It comes after a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow in March.

Drones blitzed Moscow in a massive assault, and struck a major Russian oil refinery.

And Ukraine swarmed Russia with drones in early March as Volodymyr Zelensky’s negotiators were due to start talks with Donald Trump’s team in Saudi Arabia.