A new video posted on social media shows dramatic footage of a five-soldier Russian night patrol taking turns being fired upon by a Ukrainian sniper.

Elite sniper of the Ukrainian armyPhoto: Mykhailo Palinchak / Zuma Press / Profimedia

The footage captured by a night vision camera shows five soldiers walking in a single line in the border zone.

The Ukrainian marksman is the first to shoot the last Russian in line. The others come to his aid, but the sniper continues to fire until the last two take off.

One of them also takes a bullet, and only one Russian soldier seems to have escaped by hiding in the bushes at the edge of the forest.