The unmanned craft span out control before its planned landing on the Moon's south pole.

Roscosmos, Russia’s state space corporation, said on Sunday morning that it had lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after 14:57pm (11:57 GMT) on Saturday.

Preliminary findings showed that the 800kg lander had “ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon”, it said in a statement.

RIP Luna-25. Best of luck to Chandrayaan-3.