[Note: undated footage]

Little panda Katyusha has grown strong enough and has begun to show character.

This is the heartwarming moment a baby panda does its best to get away from her watchful mum at their enclosure in Russia.

The footage, filmed at Moscow Zoo, shows the five-month-old cub struggling to break free as her mum hauls her back into their shelter. Baby Katyusha tries again and again to get away, but each time, her mother, Dindin, pulls her back with the scruff of her neck held gently in her jaws.

But even the strictest mum can meet her match and determined Katyusha does not give up and eventually tumbles 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.