This is the incredible moment a Ukrainian tank fired through a demolished building to take out a Russian armoured personnel carrier on the other side in a single shot.

The images show the Ukrainian tank moving up the street in the war-ravaged town of Rubizhne, 40 miles from Luhansk in the east of Ukraine. 

It suddenly opened fire on a stationary Russian military vehicle, hitting it and destroying it in one shot.

The shell passed through the partially destroyed building that stood between the Ukrainian tank and the Russian military vehicle, reportedly an armoured personnel carrier. 

A small cloud of dust could be seen being dislodged from the building as the ordnance fired by the Ukrainian military vehicle passed through it before hitting its target.

The regional governor of the eastern Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, claimed that The Armed Forces of Ukraine have repelled Russian troops' offensive in Rubizhne and Popasna. 

Haidai said that they would attempt to evacuate civilians from neighbouring Kreminna, just a couple of miles from Rubizhne Luhansk region, today.

People who had not already fled were effectively hostages to the Russian forces, which had not stopped shelling and blocking civilian escape routes, Haidai added. 

'Volunteers will help us in the evacuation today, the police will take elderly and less mobile people to the buses, as well as people from shelters. 

'Therefore, when you see the patrol, do not delay - this is a chance to escape. 

'Every day such opportunities decrease.'