A baby panda tried its best to get away from her watchful mum at their enclosure in Russia.

Footage shows the five-month-old cub struggling to break free as her mother hauled her back into their shelter in Moscow Zoo on January 20.

The cub named Katyusha tried again to get away, but each time, her mother, Dindin, pulled her back with the scruff of her neck held gently in her jaws.

Determined, Katyusha did not give up and eventually tumbled down the stairs to the shelter on her own.

Katyusha made history as the first baby giant panda to be born in Russia, according to the Chinese National Giant Panda Conservation and Research Centre.

She was born in August 2023 and was named in a social media poll after 380,000 social media users took part in choosing a name.

Dindin and her partner Ruyi arrived in Moscow in 2019 as part of China's and Russia's celebration of the 70th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

Chinese media reorted that the panda family is set to spend 15 years at Moscow Zoo before returning home.

China is famous for its 'Panda Diplomacy', where giant pandas are sent from China to other countries as a tool of diplomacy.

Until 1984, the Chinese government gifted pandas to other nations, but since then, they have been loaned to other countries after the Chinese government changed its policy.