Seen some videos where a shell seems to explode ~5m near a tank after which a tank start to burst in flames.
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That is unlikely to happen because tank armor will have very good protection against the fragments that are produced. You could have bad luck and a large piece of fragmentation is produced that heat a weak spot. Rear and side armour of that is not as thick as you might expect.
If the artillery is of a larger caliber, wet takes about 155mm it is more likely, 203mm artillery is used in Ukraine, where I guess the videos are from. But they are quite rare and have a longer range so more likely to use in counterbattery fire against artillery far away, not against tanks.
For even large caliber, we talk about naval guns like battleships at 380mm+ there is over 100kg of explosives in the shells and they can destroy tank or just flipping them over with a shock wave. Tiger tanks was flipped over in Normandy that way if I am not mistaken. But this is not guns used in recent conflicts.
Do you have a link to a video that shows this?
The answer might be it was not a tank but lighter armored vehicles, you are misstepping what is happened or the two are unrelated.
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