THIS is the dramatic moment a Ukrainian drone shoots down three of Putin’s UAVs with a built-in shotgun before turning its sights on a Russian soldier.

The extraordinary moment happened in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, in the first time that such a drone is seen being used against an enemy infantryman.

The video captures the newly-developed Ukrainian FPV (first person view) drone downing three Russian drones with a built-in shotgun.

The footage shows the FPV barely having to move as it blasts the Russian tech out of the sky with one shot to each.

Their battle then turns deadlier as a Russian “invader” is killed by a falling grenade – but only after he is mercilessly brought down by a shot from the sky.

The soldier gets up after he is shot by the drone, but then he is obliterated by the grenade in one quick burst of brutality.

Ukrainian military journalist Andriy Tsaplienko said: “The Ukrainian drone shoots down three Russian Mavics with a shotgun, then shoots at the invader with the same shotgun and finishes him off with a grenade.”

It is not known what type of drone it was that carried out the swift destruction, but it does show the haunting efficiency of the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

Last month, footage emerged of a Ukrainian-made Winchester drone using buckshot to shoot down approaching Russian aerial threats.

“Drones armed with shotguns have proven remarkably effective in combating enemy drones, including those operating via fibre optics,” reported Focus Ukraine.

“Winchester drones can shoot down other drones mid-flight using buckshot.

“The development is already being used by Ukrainian defenders.”

The new footage was over Synkivka and Petropavlivka, villages in Kharkiv district of Ukraine.

Separately, Ukraine has pioneered the use of missile-firing FPV marine drones which have downed several Russian military helicopters.

Such sea drones are also capable of launching aerial drones to hit targets.

NORTH KOREAN SUICIDE CHARGE

In more chilling footage from the ongoing war, North Korean soldiers are forced to file through densely booby-trapped land like human mine detectors.

In the first account of close-up combat with North Koreans, Lieutenant Colonel “Leopard” said the troops are being used for Russia‘s “meat grinder” strategy where the commanders are “unfazed by loss of life”

He told The Times: “Where Ukrainians use a mine-clearing vehicle, [the Russians] just use people.”

“They just walk in single file, three to four metres from each other, if one is blown up, then the medics go behind to pick up the dead, the crowd continues one after another.

“That’s how they pass through minefields,” he said.

There is a developing pattern of North Koreans being been sent on these effective suicide missions by the Russians.

On a battlefield in Kursk, some two dozen men thought to be North Korean fighters huddle together before jogging out towards enemy lines.

Ukrainian veteran Vitaliy, 35, told The Times it was “like a dream for our mortars and machine gunners”.

A diary found on a dead North Korean soldier also illuminated the twisted sacrificial mentality that has been drilled into them by officials.